Rachel Griffiths, Jacki Weaver, and Claudia Karvan headline shiny new programs at SBS as the broadcaster banks on star power for its 2025 programming line-up. Each actress will present a series examining Australian identity, stories and documentaries. Griffiths will host The Idea of Australia, a four-part series exploring the myths that bind Australia and the events and people that have shaped our democracy, place in the world, cultural identity and the relationship between non-Indigenous and First Nations peoples.
Star power for SBS as Rachel Griffiths, Jacki Weaver and Claudia Karvan join the network for 2025. Credit: Marija Ercegovac Jacki Weaver presents Australia: An Unofficial History , a playful series that opens a forgotten vault of Australian films exploring the social and political change of the 1970s. Karvan will host Great Australian Road Trips, joining comedian Steph Tisdell, MasterChef host Melissa Leong and comedian Nazeem Hussain to reveal untold Australian stories, one pit stop at a time.
SBS is also back to doing what it does best: wild places. Alone will return for a third season, sending 10 survival enthusiasts into the inhospitable landscape of The West Coast Range, Tasmania, Lutruwita to compete for $250,000. Alone has been a standout hit for SBS, with each episode of the second season drawing more than a million Total TV viewers across the week, according to OzTam.
Alone Australia returns to SBS for a third season with contestants battling it out in the.