SBS 2022 programming: Alone Australia, Qatar World Cup and more

Australia is about it get its own version of the brutal competition series that makes Survivor look like a day at a ritzy spa.

Australia is about to get its own version of a global TV hit.

SBS has revealed it has the exclusive commissioning rights to Alone, a reality TV competition that makes Survivor look like an expensive spa package.

The series usually features 10 contenders who are dropped into the wilderness with limited supplies to try and survive perilous conditions. Rather than working in teams, they are usually isolated.

The person who lasts the longest in the tough terrains – which has previously included Patagonia, just south of the Arctic Circle and Mongolia – takes home the prize, which has been as much as $1 million.

The first series premiered in 2015 and there have also been spin-offs including Alone: The Beast and Alone in the Wilderness.

The Australian version will be called Alone Australia and will feature 10 contestants.

SBS has attained the commissioning rights for an Australian version of Alone.

The announcement was made as part of SBS’s preview of its 2022 programming slate across drama, factual, sport and Indigenous programming.

The highlights include:

-All 64 games of Qatar World Cup

-Over 800 hours of cycling across Tour De France, Giro d’Italia, Vuelta a Espana, Tour De France Femmes and Koori Knockout

-Safe Home, a drama from the creator of Offspring – it follows a woman whose life is dramatically up-ended when she starts working at a women’s legal centre

-Four short-form dramas: horror anthology Night Bloomers, dark comedy A Beginner’s Guide to Grief, Latecomers and Appetite

-True Colours, a mystery set in a First Nations community – an investigation into a car accident becomes a hunt for a killer

-A second season of docuseries See What You Made Me Do with Jess Hill, examining domestic violence

-Yes, No, Maybe, a docuseries that explores sexual assault and consent

-Life on the Outside, a docuseries that looks a recidivism by asking whether you’d host a former inmate in your home, presented by actor Danielle Cormack

-The Australian Wars, a factual series that looks at the settlement wars

-Our Law, on NITV, a docuseries that follows Indigenous police officers and cadets

-The return of Who Do You Think You Are – this season’s subjects include Myf Warhurst, Matt Moran and Paula Duncan

-Django, an 1860s-set western about a gunslinger who is haunted by his family’s murder

-SAS Rogue Heroes, the dramatised origin story of the SAS, starring Dominic West and Alfie Allen

-The Responder, a police procedural starring Martin Freeman

-New seasons of The Handmaid’s Tale, Atlanta, War of the Worlds, Das Boot, The Orville, The Curse of Oak Island, Patriot Brains, Question Team and Wellington Paranormal

-Dishing It Up, a cooking series featuring six families who collaborate with their favourite chefs

-The Streets with Dan Hong, following the chef as he explores street food and then develops his own take on it

-The return of The Cook Up – Adam Liaw will return with another 200 episodes of his weeknight cooking show.

Originally published as SBS 2022 programming: Alone Australia, Qatar World Cup and more