SBS reveals bold 2013 line-up

Angry Anderson will join the cast of Housos. Photo: Danielle Smith

SBS promised a bold and daring 2013 today, that will range the spectrum from "relevant and credible" to "bloody and unabashedly politically incorrect".

Tony Iffland, SBS director of television, today announced the 2013 program highlights, which he feels will continue the "sense of momentum" that follows a year he described as "tremendously successful".

With a mantra of "fresh, relevant and credible programs", Iffland highlighted return seasons of Once Upon A Time (with series two based around the Lebanese community in Punchbowl) and Who Do You Think You Are season five (which will have two extra episodes and include subjects such as Rove McManus and Asher Keddie), before announcing two potentially explosive documentaries for next year, examining mining in Australia and the Cronulla riots.

SBS will air the documentary Cronulla Riots - The Day that Shocked the Nation which is sure to spark heated debate. Photo: Andrew Meares

Dirty Business How Mining Made Australia is based upon the notion that "mining is a battleground that has forged and divided the nation", said Iffland, and the three-part series will examine the history of mining from the first gold rush to the latest political debate.

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Cronulla Riots The Day That Shocked the Nation has been commissioned to run alongside Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl, and likely to stir up debate on what remains a heated topic.

Iffland also highlighted the first local drama commissioned by SBS in three years, Better Man, Khoa Do's tale of Tran Van Nguyen, the 25-year-old Vietnamese-Australian who was convicted and executed in Singapore for drug trafficking in 2005. Iffland was able to announce the cast for the show - which goes into production in Melbourne next week - including David Wenham as Julian McMahon and Bryan Brown as Lex Lasry, Van Nguyen's two lawyers, plus Claudia Karvan as McMahon's wife and Remy Hii as Van Nguyen.

Mining will come under SBS inspection in Dirty Business - How Mining Made Australia

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