Where the hell is Alone Australia Season 4? We may have an answer

 

In September 2025, SBS revealed that Alone Australia Season 4 will be set in the Arctic Circle, prompting plenty of questions and confusion from Alone fans. But since then, we’ve heard nothing about the upcoming season. Until now…

Where the hell is Alone Australia Season 4?

Over the last three years, Alone Australia has premiered in late March and aired over ten weeks to the start of June. SBS usually drops nuggets of info about the upcoming season throughout February and March, including who the contestants are, what items they were allowed to select from, and further info and trailers foreshadowing what’s to come.

So when it got to mid-March and we realised all the info we had about Season 4 is that it’s set in the Arctic Circle, we began to wonder, where the hell is Alone Australia Season 4? We began to speculate if something had happened and SBS had quietly killed off the season.

Maybe someone stayed out there for ages?
Maybe something terrible happened to one of the contestants?
Maybe all the contestants were too busy fighting for their lives they forgot to film anything and there’s not enough footage to piece together an entire season?

We contacted staff at SBS asking for updates of any kind. And we’ve finally received one more skerrick of information.

Alone Australia Season 4 will be premiering in winter.

Stay tuned for more info soon (ish).

Alone Australia Season 4 in the Arctic Circle

For four years I’ve been asking, ‘When will they set Alone Australia in the desert/tropics/somewhere people can’t freeze to death? I want to watch someone fend off a croc’.

It seems I’ll have to continue to wait for that answer, as today we learnt that the next season of Alone Australia won’t be set in Australia, nor the Southern Hemisphere, but instead, in the Arctic Circle.

‘In 2026, 10 new participants head to the Northern Hemisphere winter where subzero temperatures, deep snows, frozen lakes and icy forests await’, SBS says.

‘Contestants will have to rely on their wits and ingenuity to be the last person standing and take home the $250,000 prize.’

Read more: Alone Australia Season 3 Finale – Episodes 11, 12 & The Reunion, Recapped!

Is this rage bait SBS? Why can’t we challenge Aussies with the unrelenting climate, fauna, and landscapes that make Australia unique? Not to mention that Aussie survival skills often lack experience with bears and wolves.

It’s fair to say, the We Are Explorers work chat is blowing up.

Feature photo by Ian Mackenzie on Flickr | Licence