SBS will return to the long form of drama with the Pastor and NITV joint committee in 2026, with the Pastor and NITV joint committee leading the Slate along with three new short digital originals: Fishboy, Homebody and Miss Sultana.
The broadcaster will unveil next year’s programming lineup this afternoon at Sydney’s Hodern Pavilion next year, highlighting multi-platform coverage for the FIFA World Cup, and presenting insights, date lines and cookups with Adam Rio.
The documentary continues to become well known in the slate, which was announced when Australia’s first two projects closed your big fat mouth John Saffron. And we are Jenni. Meanwhile, SBS regular Mark Fennell tells you what you really think, and John is not there.
The previously announced 2.6 seconds will air next year by Blackfella Films, but NITV will become the television home for Pauline Clague-Directed documentary Colleano Heart.
It is a hospital in Australia that has returned across SBS and NITV in 2026. On the deep edge, ju-describer, mastermind, who do you think you are? Tony Armstrong and Courtney Law will also return to hosting coverage of SBS’s Eurovision Song Contest.
SBS’s Programming Crown Jewel is the FIFA World Cup, airing exclusive coverage of 550 hours from the station, including all matches in HD, replays, highlights and pitch-side crosses during the Socceroos campaign. SBS On Demand will feature a World Cup hub and the broadcasting station will also be launching Fast Channel FIFA+.
Soccer will also inject other SBS programming, including Adam Liaw’s Great Football Feasts, a new I8 studio series filmed in World Cup Host Nations Canada, Mexico and the US.
SBS also announced that it secured the right to tour France’s Temas until 2030 and participated in other cycling coverages in the Tour de France and La Verta a Espania.
“Next year will be the biggest year ever,” said Jane Palfreeman, acting managing director.
“We proudly offer a variety, deep and engaging bold content slates – from the global format
Bold and original storytelling that Australians can’t find anywhere else. In 2026, the FIFA World Cup will be different. With 104 matches across three countries, they will captivate the nation, captivate Australians, cheer for Saccaroo and celebrate world matches. ”
Hunter Page Locard is “Reckless” as June as Charlie and Tasma Walton. (Photo: David Dare Parker)
The pastor, an 8×30 minute drama from a wooden horse, is inspired by the real-life experiences of a pastor at Melbourne Airport, co-created by showrunner Elise McCready and executive producer Jude Troy.
The series follows Rev. Tobias Wallace, who passes through a door that is constantly ringing, a pocket filled with cash, and an unmarked door that is not marked with a clear, unorthodox approach to solving the airport’s daily crisis. Tobias is sure the airport could not run without him and has never met an issue that he cannot fix. He considers him to be walking responsibility until he meets his fearsome, uneasy, young boss Carmen. Their clash ignites a power play that passes through the terminal and ripples into the lives of the surrounding cleaners, luggage handlers and passengers.
McCready writes with Sarah Basiouni, Mithilla Gupta and Thomas Weatherall. Production at the Pastor will begin in Victoria later this year, with cast members announced in the coming months.
“The pastor was inspired by his unforgettable encounter with Martin Scrimshaw, pastor at Melbourne International Airport,” Troy said.
“Back to Sydney, a dashing day distracted to return to Sydney after a work trip, I jumped out of Uber and realized it was too late.
“For the next few hours, he took me on an eye-opening adventure deep inside the airport, and I have been sharing stories of connections with the human race that I have been with since. I realized how richness and drama is hidden in this world.
As previously announced, reckless stars Tasma Walton and Hunter Page Locard are forced to force their brothers as they are forced to work together to escape in the accidental Hit and Dan Death. Produced by BBC Studios Productions Australia, the series is a guilty adaptation of the Scottish mystery thriller produced by Kodie Bedford.
Writed and directed by Robertino Zambrano, the digital original Fishboy follows the battle of the lightly corned hustler to save the family’s livelihood and regain respect by launching Western Sydney’s biggest fish delivery business. Zambrano and Darce Aguilar are agricultural products for Kapuwa Studiowalks and are executive produced along with Gabriel Justen and Libby Doherty.
Produced by crazy people, the home body follows Darcy.
She discovers that she has an unexpected housemate: a teenage ghost of her self before his move. The series was written by Ap Pobjoy and Charlotte Mars and directed by Pobjoy by Harry Lloyd. Cyna Strachan will be produced with executive producers Liam Heyen and Kirsty Fisher.
Alistair Baldwin will oversee Miss Sultana, who follows sisters Alana and Nicky. Arana and Nikki desperately bid to save their mother’s legacy of beauty and host Sultana’s first disabled only beauty pageant. Baldwin writes with Artemis Munoz and Leanne Wilson Rouge along with Molly O’Connor of the float films and Hannah NGO of the executive producer of the Lazy Susan films.
“Closing your big fat mouth, John Saffron!”
Australia discovered the document, chemical media closed your big fat mouth John Saffron! The author, documentary, and satirists analyse the raging censorship wars across Australia, but Smith and Nasht We are Jenni, directed by Mariel Thomas and Akim Dev and produced by Simon Nasht, follows the journey of 2,500 women. The third project has not been announced yet.
Mark Fennelfront tells us what you think you’re watching an extraordinary Australian-involved presenter discuss complex health issues at dinner parties, but John is not there, but he reveals one of Australia’s biggest unsolved mysteries. John Friedrich’s story of true crime in the wild.
Only Australia, the most popular committee on SBS, travels to the Arctic for a fourth iteration, and in the second season of the hospital: Deep End, Matt Preston, Jerena Do Kick and Ruby Rose scrub up, who do you think you are? Includes Essie Davis, Chrissie Swan, Aaron Pedersen and Bruce McAvaney.
At SBS Food, the new series will include Rick Stein’s Australia from Southern Pictures, Shane Delia’s Malta from I8 Studio, and Food Adventures from Matt Preston.
From overseas, the lineup includes premium dramas such as King & the Conqueror, starring James Norton and Nikolaj Coster Valdau. How does it feel to a girl based on the life of Parisles? The Trespassing starring Gillian Anderson, and the Landmark BBC One Series A Love Story, tracks the emotional true story and the much-anticipated reunion with family in Iran, Nazanin Zagaliratcliffe’s imprisonment.
