June 2026 Highlights

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Premieres & Exclusives

Save Me – Gritty Greek Noir Thriller

Exclusive UK Premiere

Monday 22 June (two episodes weekly)

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Seen on Netflix Greece and set in the atmospheric landscapes of northern Greece, this gripping psychological thriller follows Nikol (Danae Skiadi), a young woodcarver who returns to her hometown in Komotini for her father’s memorial. But not long after she arrives, her younger sister mysteriously vanishes. As Nikol tries to unravel the unsettling circumstances surrounding the disappearance, she teams up with a determined local detective (Elena Mavridou) whose own demons mirror the town’s long buried secrets. Together they navigate a web of lies, trauma, and long-suppressed truths hidden beneath the surface of an outwardly quiet community.

What begins as a missing persons search quickly spirals into a tense search for a serial killer, forcing both Nikol and the detective to confront guilt, corruption, and the dangerous consequences of uncovering the past. As time runs out, the investigation exposes just how far people will go to protect their own – and how darkness can thrive in the most ordinary places.

This gritty and enthralling series is based on the popular novel of the same name by author Dimitris Simos, who also acts as head screenwriter on the series.

(Crime Drama series 8 x 45 mins episodes)

Greek with English subtitles

Sisters 1968 (Systra) – Powerful Period Drama Series

Exclusive UK Premiere

Monday 8 June 

This beautifully made, powerful period drama series takes us back  to  Sweden, in 1968, where the sixties are in full swing and ready for change. The newly minted, politically aware journalist Karin is determined to land her dream job at a major national newspaper. Instead, she finds herself in a sleepy small-town newsroom, armed with her typewriter and a head full of radical ideas. She and her rebellious artist friend Lottie move into the home of the paper’s conservative owner, Georg and quickly begin to stir things up.

Joined by Georg’s curious daughter Ingela, the three young women form an unlikely bond that challenges the town’s traditional values. As the world outside erupts in protests, feminism and cultural revolution, the trio experience a summer of awakening – political, personal and emotional. Their presence disrupts the quiet community, forcing it to confront the changing times and the power of female friendship. Sisters 1968 is a coming-of-age miniseries that blends heart, humour and history, in a story about finding your voice when the world is ready to listen.

(Drama series 3 x 60 mins episodes)

Swedish with English subtitles

Black Sands Series 2 – Acclaimed Nordic Noir Thriller continues (Complete Boxset available)

New to Viaplay

Monday 8 June

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“Hidden streaming gem of the year… a moody Nordic noir but with a pleasurably rambunctious Icelandic spirit” – Vogue

“This superior Nordic noir is intense, sexy, well-acted and unnerving” – San Jose Mercury News

Showcasing Nordic noir at its very best, Black Sands (Svörtu sandar) earned 18 TV award nominations in Iceland, making it one of the country’s most nominated series of the past five years. Now, the highly acclaimed series returns for its second and final riveting outing, exclusively on Viaplay, with two episodes dropping weekly.

Set against Iceland’s famous black sands, the darkly gripping crime drama features stunning cinematography and follows troubled police officer Anita (Aldis Amah Hamilton – Netflix’s The Valhalla Murders), who is forced back to her hometown to track a serial killer who has been avoiding capture for years by disguising murders as accidents.

Season two follows 14 months on from the Black Sands tragedy, it’s the bleak Arctic winter and the survivors are still haunted by the revelation that a beloved resident was a serial killer, but the mystery deepens with the strange death of an elderly woman, followed by another shocking murder. 

As the investigation unfolds, the town's dark history of abuse and negligence is exposed, and when Aníta learns that the serial killer they caught was only one small part of a much larger, insidious secret, she’s forced to resort to drastic measures to put an end to the tragedy, pushing her to her limits.

(Nordic Noir Drama series 8 x 45 mins episodes)

Icelandic with English subtitles

1 June

Veni Vidi Vici Series 1 – Drama Series

A lauded film director’s fortunes begin to change when his films start to take a bashing from critics and the money stops rolling in. Financially dependent on his successful wife, when their marriage starts to feel the strain and as his situation worsens, the filmmaker realises that it might be time for a career change. Soon he is forced to confront reality that a conventional job might be the only way forward.

(Drama Series, 10 x 32 mins, Danish with English subtitles)

Black Sands Series 2 Eps 5 & 6 Nordic Noir Series

Bubble – Feature Film (Streaming Exclusive)

16-year-old small town girl Evelina’s world collapses when she finds out her mother is having an affair with a woman. Like all teens, Evelina thinks liberally, and wants her own freedom of thought and action – but that thinking does not really extend to her own parents. So she makes it her mission to disrupt her mother’s new relationship at all costs and to make her parents to fall in love again, but things don’t go quite to plan, leading to dramatic and hilarious consequences.

(Comedy Drama Film, 102 mins, Finnish with English subtitles)

The Inner Circle Series 1 (Den inre cirkeln) – Political Drama Series

An intense, character driven drama straight from the corridors of power, based on a bestselling novel by Swedish political strategist Per Schlingmann, starring Niklas Engdahl. The day before Almedalen Week begins, Minister of Business Affairs David Ehrling receives a call from Prime Minister Elvira Kropp telling him of her plan to resign. David will stop at nothing to take the role of Prime Minister, but is it a price worth paying?

(Drama Series, 8 x 43 mins, Swedish with English subtitles)

8 June

Sisters 1968 (Systra) – Powerful Period Drama Series      

The year is 1968 and Sweden is in full swing and ready for change. The newly minted, politically aware journalist Karin is determined to land her dream job at a major national newspaper. Instead, she finds herself in a sleepy small-town newsroom, armed with her typewriter and a head full of radical ideas. She and her rebellious artist friend Lottie move into the home of the paper’s conservative owner, Georg and quickly begin to stir things up. Joined by Georg’s curious daughter Ingela, the three young women form an unlikely bond that challenges the town’s traditional values. As the world outside erupts in protests, feminism and cultural revolution, the trio experience a summer of awakening – political, personal and emotional.

(Drama Series 3 x 60 mins episodes, Swedish with English subtitles)

Black Sands Series 2 Eps 7 & 8 – Nordic Noir Series Complete Box Set

Complete Box Set of the highly acclaimed Icelandic series, that’s set against Iceland’s famous black sands. The darkly gripping crime drama resumes 14 months after the Black Sands tragedy, it’s the bleak Arctic winter and the survivors are still haunted by the revelation that a beloved resident was a serial killer, but the mystery deepens with the strange death of an elderly woman, followed by another shocking murder.

(Nordic Noir Drama Series 8 x 45 mins, Icelandic with English subtitles)

15 June

Fell – Feature Film (Streaming Exclusive)

On camping trip, Thomas’ only daughter is killed in a hit-and-run by a logging truck. Obsessed with avenging his child’s death he moves to a remote logging town, taking on a new identity, as Chris, and waits for the driver Luke to serve his prison sentence. When Luke is released, Chris is assigned to partner with the ex-con in dangerous high tree logging work. Every time Luke climbs, Chris holds his life in his hands. But when Chris discovers that Luke has a young daughter, he starts to empathise with the other man. Struggling with his own loss and his shared connection with Luke to nature, the love of their daughters and the potential for closure – will Chris make the right choice? Winner of the ‘Gold Award’ from the Australian Cinematographers Society the film stars Matt Nable (Arrow, Riddick) and Daniel Henshall (Mickey 17, The Babadook)

(Feature film 93 mins, English)

22 June

Save Me Series 1       Eps 1 & 2 – Crime Drama Series

This gripping Greek psychological thriller follows Nikol (Danae Skiadi), a young woodcarver who returns to her hometown in Komotini for her father’s memorial. But not long after she arrives, her younger sister mysteriously vanishes. As Nikol tries to unravel the unsettling circumstances surrounding the disappearance, she teams up with a determined local detective (Elena Mavridou) whose own demons mirror the town’s long buried secrets. Together they navigate a web of lies, trauma, and long-suppressed truths hidden beneath the surface of an outwardly quiet community.

(Greek 8 x 45 mins episodes, English subtitles)     

Monster Series 1 – Nordic Noir Series

In this stylish and gripping Nordic Noir, a young man is discovered dead, and his girlfriend has mysteriously disappeared. Detective Hedda Hersoug teams up with detective Joel Dreyer to investigate what could be the work of a serial killer. Clashing in style and outlook, the pair struggle to connect as they pursue their suspect. Both burdened by their own secrets, Hedda and Joel begin to blur the line between right and wrong, resorting to dubious tactics in their drive to find the killer.  As they home in on a likely suspect, their pasts threaten to catch up with them, and they could be as dangerous as the murderer they’re hunting for.

(Nordic Noir Series 7 x 55mins, Norwegian with English subtitles)

29 June

Save Me Series 1       Eps 3 & 4

Home (Hemma) – Comedy Feature Film (Streaming Exclusive)

This heartwarming comedy introduces us to Lou – a super bright, socially awkward, outspoken woman – who tends to unintentionally upset everyone. Led to believe that her maternal grandparents are long dead, she is shocked to hear that her grandfather has just died and that her grandmother is still alive. Wanting to learn more about her roots and family, she sets off on a journey to a small village to meet and get to know her mischievous grandmother Frida, a misplaced boy Tom and most importantly Henrik, who promptly falls head over heels in love with her. Can Lou finally fine her true home and a sense of belonging?

Drama film, 90 mins, Swedish with English subtitles)

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AVAILABLE TO BINGE NOW ON VIAPLAY

1. Dangerous Truth (Das Zweite Attentat) – Powerful political thriller – from award-winning director Barbara Eder (The Swarm, Barbarians) – is inspired by true events that took place in 2003, in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq. The thrilling new drama, centres on a young man who tries to find out the truth about the murder of his father, who was a sniper for the Bundeswehr.
2. Welfare Warriors – A darkly comic workplace drama where bureaucracy meets the supernatural. Anneli Tiainen works as a service manager at a seemingly run of the mill employment agency, but things take a turn for the terrible, when she discovers the office is haunted. That coupled with the threat of mould contamination and impossible performance targets, sees her resort to increasingly bizarre remedies. But when one misstep spirals into chaos, Anneli must confront not only the strange phenomena invading her office – ghosts, visions, and creeping mould – but the collapse of her own mental stability.
3. The Fortress Series 1 – This Sci-Fi drama takes us to 2037, Norway, which has become a self-sufficient utopia – cut off from the rest of the world by a towering wall. The country thrives in isolation, with local food production, clean energy and strict border control. But when a deadly virus begins to spread, the wall meant to protect its citizens becomes a prison. Stars Tobias Santelmann (The Last Kingdom, Veronika) and Russell Tovey (Gavin & Stacey, Him & Her).
4. Vanguard – A real-life Succession story - Vanguard charts the rise of Jan Stenbeck (Jakob Oftebro), the visionary who revolutionised Nordic TV, built a media empire, and discovered that power always comes at a price. (Trailer)
5. S10 (Stien) This powerful feature documentary shares the highs and lows of Dutch singer-songwriter Stien den Hollander, a child pop sensation,  known as S10, who represented The Netherlands in Eurovision 2022 and went on to be a singing superstar. Trailer
6. The internationally acclaimed, charismatic hip-hop phenomenon has been hailed as a defining voice of her generation. Signed at just 16-years-old to Noah’s Ark record label, S10 made a rapid rise to fame with her raw, genre-defying sound and deeply personal lyrics shaped by her challenging experiences with mental health and a complicated upbringing. Mafia – Hit Nordic Noir epic inspired by actual events, this sweeping crime thriller charts Sweden’s 1990s shift from peace to violent gang wars through the rise of criminal mastermind and his dangerous entanglement with lone cop (Katia Winter, Sleepy Hollow, Dexter). Their manipulative alliance – each convinced they hold the upper hand – spirals toward devastating consequences. (Trailer) (6 episodes)

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