SBS On Demand follows strongest week on record with the launch of exclusive Crime Time dramas
Thursday 13 July, 2017
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The Handmaid's Tale helps drive 9.5 million chapter views between Thursday 6 and Wednesday 12 July.
SBS On Demand has experienced its best-performing week on record, with 9.5 million chapter views on the streaming platform between Thursday 6 and Wednesday 12 July - predominantly led by the exclusive Australian premiere of acclaimed drama The Handmaid's Tale, which also led the top ten performing titles in the OzTAM Video Player Measurement for the same period.
Building on this premium programming offering, SBS On Demand today launches Crime Time, complete seasons of exclusive international dramas dropping every week throughout July, August and September.
Kicking off with acclaimed Canadian drama Cardinal, other titles in the selection include Valkyrien, Below the Surface, Farang, Fortitude, Ouro: Amazon Gold, The Frozen Dead, Berlin Station, Before We Die and The Bureau (full titles listed below).
SBS On Demand General Manager, Abigail Thomas, said: It's clear from these record figures that our diverse programming is resonating with Australians and we hope that our Crime Time drama drop can build on this success.
In a digitally-led future, we are focused on delivering content that is accessible to watch anytime across multiple devices, ensuring SBS On Demand remains Australia's most distinctive streaming service.
Full Crime Time Drama Offering - Exclusive Australian Premieres
Cardinal
Six episodes
Canada - Available from 13 July
Cardinal is a Canadian crime drama television series, adapted from Giles Blunts award-winning mystery novel Forty Words for Sorrow. The series stars Billy Campbell as John Cardinal and Karine Vanasse as Lise Delorme, detectives investigating the murder of a young girl.
Valkyrien
Eight episodes
Norway - Available from 20 July
Valkyrien centres on a doctor who runs an illegal, underground clinic in an old bomb shelter, where he treats criminals, emergency patients, and others who cant or wont seek medical help in a regular hospital.
Below The Surface
Eight episodes
Denmark - Available 27 July
Copenhagen, 2017. 15 innocent people are held hostage underground in a subway train. As a media frenzy ensues, the country finds itself divided on whether or not to negotiate with terrorists. Over the course of eight days, growing fear and desperation grip Denmark while those trapped underground begin to lose hope of survival.
Farang
Eight episodes
Sweden - Available 3 August
Former criminal Rickard has vanished. Fleeing Sweden and the old friends he has testified against, he abandons his name, his life, and his family to start over in Thailand. Ten years later and still with a price on his head, Rickard knows that a return home would be a death sentence. And so he ekes out his existence as a small-time crook in the back alleys of Phuket. But when his fifteen-year-old daughter Thyra comes looking for him, Rickards self-imposed exile in this gritty paradise is soon under threat.
Fortitude S1 (12 episodes) & Fortitude S2 (10 episodes)
UK - Available 10 August
Fortitude is a town in the Arctic that is unlike any other place on Earth. Surrounded by the picturesque polar landscape and filled with residents who form a tight-knit community, the town has never been the site of a violent crime. That changes, though, when a research scientist is killed, which leads to an investigation that prompts police officers to suspect and mistrust one another.
Ouro: Amazon Gold
Eight episodes
France - Available 17 August
Vincent, a 20-year old geology student from Paris, travels deep into the Amazonian jungles of French Guyana for an internship at a gold mining company. Taken under the wing of local gold lord Antoine Serra, Vincent quickly falls into the much more lucrative - and more dangerous - world of gold trafficking.
The Frozen Dead
Six episodes
France - Available 24 August
A horrific discovery in a small town nestled high in the French Pyrenees begins to unravel a dark mystery that has been hidden for years.
Professor T S2
13 episodes
Belgium - Available 31 August
Eccentric psychology professor Jasper Teerlinck, Professor T , is back advising the police with his unique style in the second season of this Belgian crime series. Series 1 also available on SBS On Demand.
Berlin Station
10 episodes
USA - Available 7 September
Follows CIA agent Daniel Miller, who has just arrived at the CIA station in Berlin, Germany. Miller has a clandestine mission: to uncover the source of a leak who has supplied information to a whistle-blower named Thomas Shaw.
Before We Die
10 episodes
Sweden - Available 14 September
When Police Officer Hanna's lover and colleague is abducted, she must take over his undercover investigation of a criminal biker gang as well as protect an infiltrator. To prevent a brutal takeover in the criminal underworld, she must fight for her son's life and break another family to save her own.
The Bureau - S1-3
10 episodes each
France - S1 available 21 September, S2 available 28 September, S3 available 5 October
Malotru, a French intelligence officer, undercover in Syria for 6 years, is called back home. He will face the difficulty to forget his undercover identity, the disappearance of a colleague in Algeria, and the training of a young girl.
Cromo
12 episodes
Argentina- Available 28 September
Follows Diego and Simon, research scientists investigating the murder of Diegos wife, Valentina, while she was investigating an environmental disaster in Corrientes. Based on actual events.
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SBS On Demand follows strongest week on record with the launch of exclusive Crime Time dramas
