The FIFA World Cup 2026™ is here and the world is watching. With each match being more exciting than the last, the downtime between each one can feel longer than a football field.
Whether you're looking for a brand new box set to binge or an adrenaline-fuelled drama to help get your game face on, we've got you covered. We've hand-picked some of the best series from around the world that will keep you hooked until it's match time.
Alone Australia
Ten Australian participants are dropped into remote wilds, completely isolated from the world and each other, stripped of modern possessions, contact and comforts. Challenged by the merciless forces of nature, hunger and perhaps the toughest challenge of all, loneliness, who will survive the longest?
There are no camera crews, no help from the production team. The ten participants must rely on themselves for food, water, shelter and warmth, using nothing but what’s in their pack and what the habitat around them provides.
With the highly anticipated fourth season premiering on Wednesday 15 July at 7.30pm, prepare to get into survival mode with the first three seasons, all set in Western Tasmania/ lutruwita. In season four, participants are dropped in the brutul yet spectacular wilds of the Arctic Circle, deep in the northernmost reaches of Sápmi, Finland.
Alone Australia seasons 1-3 are now streaming at SBS On Demand.
Cup Fever!
Streaming on SBS On Demand every night of the FIFA World Cup 2026™ and on YouTube each night, Cup Fever! reunites hosts Santo Cilauro and Ed Kavalee in a vodcast format to entertain fans across Australia with their signature blend of sharp analysis, humour and genuine football knowledge.
Produced by masters of comedy, Working Dog (Have You Been Paying Attention?, Thank God You’re Here, The Cheap Seats, Utopia), and recorded in front of a live studio audience, the nightly half-hour show will see Santo and Ed joined by a host of well-known football identities, beloved comedians and fresh talent.
The FIFA World Cup 2026™ is the biggest in history, and Cup Fever! delivers the day’s games' highest highs, lowest lows and biggest laughs across a historic number of matches and host cities.
Cup Fever! is now streaming at SBS On Demand.
Blue Lights
From the writers of The Salisbury Poisonings, Blue Lights takes us to Belfast where three rookie cops – young Annie (Katherine Devlin), midlife career-changer Grace (Sian Brooke) and dedicated if socially awkward Tommy (Nathan Braniff) – are hoping to be selected once their probation ends in two months. It’s unlikely all three will make it. Meanwhile, a large-scale investigation into a local gang has been suddenly shut down, begging the question, who is protecting them?
The Guardian gave this “well-crafted, fantastically tense, thrilling” crime drama 5 stars and called it "one of TV's best shows" and we have all three seasons now streaming at SBS On Demand.
Blue Lights seasons 1-3 are now streaming at SBS On Demand.
The Americans
Starring real-life couple Keri Russell (as Elizabeth Jennings) and Matthew Rhys (as Philip Jennings), The Americans is a period drama about the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C. shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected President. The arranged marriage of Philip and Elizabeth Jennings grows more passionate and genuine by the day, but is constantly tested by the escalation of the Cold War. Tensions heighten upon the arrival of a new neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI agent.
The Americans seasons 1-6 are now streaming at SBS On Demand.
The Audacity
Set inside the bubble of Silicon Valley, The Audacity takes on the warped dreams, outsized egos, and ethical lapses of the self-styled inventors of the future. In a world of jaded billionaires, psychiatrist-gurus, bio-hacked tech bros, AI labs and disillusioned teens being optimised in elite private schools, an audacious data-mining CEO (Billy Magnussen) strives to turn insight and influence into profit and power. Through biting satire and wit, The Audacity confronts reality, privacy and the delusions fuelling our ever-changing world.
The Audacity is now streaming at SBS On Demand.
King and Conqueror
The story of a clash that defined the future of a continent for a thousand years, King & Conqueror is an epic eight-part series starring James Norton (Happy Valley) as Harold, Earl of Wessex, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) as William, Duke of Normandy, two allies with no designs on the British throne who find themselves forced by circumstance to take up arms against each other.
King & Conqueror brings to the screen the lives, loves and families of these two iconic 11th-century figures, and the gripping power game they are all caught up in, creating a bold, sweeping drama. The series culminates in one of Western histories most famous battles, the Battle of Hastings, but as Norton has said, this series is far from just "battle after battle and fight after fight". In King & Conqueror, we see the political forces and dynastic demands that shaped their lives, along with relationships between Harold and his wife Edith (Emily Beecham) and William and his wife Matilda (Clémence Poésy)
King & Conqueror is now streaming at SBS On Demand.
Dark Winds
Dark Winds follows Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, solving mysteries and serving justice as their reservation is besieged by a series of increasingly violent crimes in the 1970s. Every mystery uncovers old wounds that run deep, not only in their own lives, but in the collective past of the community they serve. Each step closer to the truth forces the two men to confront their own personal demons, family trauma, and evil forces that threaten the uneasy balance of reservation life.
Seasons 1-4 of Dark Winds are now streaming at SBS On Demand.
Rogue Heroes
Written and created for television by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, This Town, Taboo), and inspired by Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same name, the smash-hit series Rogue Heroes has captivated audiences across two stellar seasons.
Rogue Heroes is a dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of WWII. The series follows a crew of renegade men who are a self-proclaimed band of oddities, gentlemen, and pirates who rail against the status quo of service to do things a little differently.
Rogue Heroes seasons 1-2 are now streaming at SBS On Demand.
Shaun Micallef's Origin Odyssey
Adventure and revelry abound as Shaun Micallef travels overseas with popular Australian comedians Aaron Chen, Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli, Lizzy Hoo, Dilruk Jayasinha, Nina Oyama and Arj Barker in the brand-new SBS documentary series Shaun Micallef’s Origin Odyssey.
Travel across the globe with multi-award-winning actor, writer, television presenter and comedian Shaun Micallef in preparation for season 2, coming later this year. “Two years ago, I retired from television, vowing never to return. I promised myself that I would travel the world helping younger and more diverse performers tell their stories. The offer to present Origin Odyssey has enabled me to do both,” Micallef says.
In Shaun Micallef’s Origin Odyssey, his trademark intellect and wit combine with the comedians’ discovery of parts of their heritage that have remained a mystery to them until now to create a rich series that is entertaining and insightful in equal measure.
Shaun Micallef's Origin Odyssey is now streaming at SBS On Demand.
