diff --git a/pkgs/servers/sickbeard/patches/override-python-version-check.patch b/pkgs/servers/sickbeard/patches/override-python-version-check.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..95c6970e0a07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/sickbeard/patches/override-python-version-check.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From e97f418803c1db9a753fa755a9ee0cf04eabaed3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: rembo10 <rembo10@users.noreply.github.com>
+Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:00:29 +0530
+Subject: [PATCH] Allow running on unsupported Python versions
+
+---
+ sickgear.py | 5 +----
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/sickgear.py b/sickgear.py
+index 9d0440bb..6d65e65d 100755
+--- a/sickgear.py
++++ b/sickgear.py
+@@ -43,10 +43,7 @@ versions = [((2, 7, 9), (2, 7, 18)), ((3, 7, 1), (3, 8, 14)),
+             ((3, 9, 0), (3, 9, 2)), ((3, 9, 4), (3, 9, 14)),
+             ((3, 10, 0), (3, 10, 7))]  # inclusive version ranges
+ if not any(list(map(lambda v: v[0] <= sys.version_info[:3] <= v[1], versions))) and not int(os.environ.get('PYT', 0)):
+-    print('Python %s.%s.%s detected.' % sys.version_info[:3])
+-    print('Sorry, SickGear requires a Python version %s' % ', '.join(map(
+-        lambda r: '%s - %s' % tuple(map(lambda v: str(v).replace(',', '.')[1:-1], r)), versions)))
+-    sys.exit(1)
++    pass
+ 
+ sys.path.insert(1, os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'lib')))
+ is_win = 'win' == sys.platform[0:3]
+-- 
+2.37.2
+
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/sickbeard/sickgear.nix b/pkgs/servers/sickbeard/sickgear.nix
index c1c3c6dc05bf..5ad9f457c18b 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/sickbeard/sickgear.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/sickbeard/sickgear.nix
@@ -1,23 +1,27 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, python3, makeWrapper }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, python3, makeWrapper, libarchive }:
 
 let
-  pythonEnv = python3.withPackages(ps: with ps; [ cheetah3 ]);
+  pythonEnv = python3.withPackages(ps: with ps; [ cheetah3 lxml ]);
 in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "sickgear";
-  version = "0.25.35";
+  version = "0.25.40";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "SickGear";
     repo = "SickGear";
     rev = "release_${version}";
-    sha256 = "0hc43wfa256nkjm7bvsr6b7xsyilm1ks4x16kvpprqmj1symlkz3";
+    sha256 = "sha256-AHV/HSKuVWZFdZdkFp9p7okAcFO40d9OqV20MaHKXaU=";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    ./patches/override-python-version-check.patch
+  ];
+
   dontBuild = true;
   doCheck = false;
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
-  buildInputs = [ pythonEnv ];
+  buildInputs = [ pythonEnv libarchive ];
 
   postPatch = ''
     substituteInPlace sickgear.py --replace "/usr/bin/env python2" "/usr/bin/env python"