Silent Witness Season 28: Release date and where to watch in Australia

Silent Witness Season 28 is set to be another thrilling season, but where to watch it online in Australia?

The long-running UK crime drama, Silent Witness, is back for another wild season in 2025. Staying on primetime television for over 20 years while maintaining good ratings is clearly an accomplishment. And so, fans are always treated to an especially well-crafted and addictive new season.

There’s more compelling crime drama to unpack with the latest instalment arriving in March. Find out when and where you can stream new episodes from Silent Witness Season 28 in Australia here.

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Silent Witness Season 28 Australia release date

The latest season will be dropping on streaming TV from Thursday, 20 March 2025. But where to watch Silent Witness Season 28 in Australia? The 10-episode new season has been confirmed to roll out on BritBox with two episodes weekly.

To catch up on prior episodes from Silent Witness Season 27, BritBox also offers complete episodes on demand. With the BBC First channel leaving Foxtel in 2024, only BritBox streams complete episodes of the long-running UK crime drama in Australia.

Silent Witness Season 28	Release Dates	Streaming Service
Episode 1	Thur, 20 Mar 2025	BritBox
Episode 2	Thur, 20 Mar 2025	BritBox
Episode 3	Thur, 27 Mar 2025	BritBox
Episode 4	Thur, 27 Mar 2025	BritBox
Episode 5	Thur, 3 Apr 2025	BritBox
Episode 6	Thur, 3 Apr 2025	BritBox
Episode 7	Thur, 10 Apr 2025	BritBox
Episode 8	Thur, 10 Apr 2025	BritBox
Episode 9	Thur, 17 Apr 2025	BritBox
Episode 10	Thur, 17 Apr 2025	BritBox

Silent Witness Season 28 trailer

Don’t miss Silent Witness Season 28 in Australia premiering on 20 March on BritBox! Can’t wait to stream new episodes? You can watch the trailer for the new season in the meantime.

What is the plot of Silent Witness Season 28?

Emilia Fox’s Dr Nikki Alexander is back alongside her team to investigate more chilling cases. The new season will kick off with the team investigating the death of an elderly woman discovered in a cave.

This is only the beginning as they are once again entangled in more crimes that need solving ASAP, including a killer who murdering victims with a hammer, which turns out to be a conspiracy involving the local government. With the Lyell threatened by a dangerous force, Nikki and her team don’t have the luxury of time as they scramble to find answers.

As for the show’s romantic angle, fans would know that Nikki and Jack finally made their romance official in Silent Witness Season 26, after much vagueness and complications in the previous seasons.

As they embark on this new chapter of their lives, we’ll see the couple take things further as their relationship continues to grow. Nonetheless, the unsettling nature of their professional lives is certainly going to disrupt their dynamic every now and then.

We’ll continue to see familiar faces as part of the Silent Witness cast, including Emilia Fox as Nikki Alexander and David Caves as Jack Hodgson. New cast members Alastair Michael who played Velvy Schur, Aki Omoshaybi who played Gabriel Folukoya, and Rhiannon May who played Cara, who were introduced in Silent Witness Season 27, won’t be returning for Season 28.

Silent Witness Season 28 instead introduces new characters, including new boss at the Lyell, Harriet Maven (Maggie Steed), and new Crime Analyst Kit Brooks (Francesca Mills). A BBC Studios production for BBC One and BBC iPlayer, Silent Witness Season 28 will feature five stories told over ten episodes.

Silent Witness seasons guide

Twenty eight seasons have been released with the latest Season 28 premiering in March 2025. In Australia, most of the show’s seasons are available to stream on BritBox, including the latest instalment.

You can also stream Silent Witness Season 27 in Australia for free with ads on ABC iView. For earlier seasons, only BritBox has exclusive access as of this writing.

Similar shows to Silent Witness you might like

The BritBox library showcases some of the best police procedural drama to come out of the UK. If you’re enjoying these types of TV shows, you might like other crime dramas on the BBC, as well as ITV.

These include titles like Vera, Line of Duty, Karen Pirie, another new crime mystery-centred story from ITV, and familiar titles like Broadchurch, Unforgotten, Midsomer Murders, Shetland, and many more. 

The best thing is that they’re all available to stream on BritBox, the home of the best British crime shows.