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Better Call Saul will make its Sky Box Sets debut next month, with the first four seasons joining the likes of Barry, Gangs of London, Wolfe and Avenue 5. Screening in order of their 7.30 nightly rotation are: House of Lies S1 Barry S1 Gangs of London S1 Better Call Saul S1 Made for Love […]

ORPHAN: FIRST KILL Horror: An escapee from a psychiatric facility in Estonia travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family — only for an unexpected twist to pit her against a mother who will protect her family at any cost. Starring Isabelle Fuhrman, Julia Stiles and Matthew Finlan. (June 2.) FALL […]

Prime’s season-three premiere of Law & Order: Organized Crime has been delayed until later in the year. It was to have aired 9.30 Thursdays from June 1 but now will be replaced by the documentary series, Branson, an acclaimed HBO biography of the daredevil entrepreneur. Organized Crime was spun off Special Victims Unit and is the seventh […]

May 14 is the launch date for the Warner Bros. Discovery series Maritime Masters: Expedition Antarctica, which will stream on both ThreeNow and Sky Go. The docuseries about a luxury cruise that’s billed as a “life-changing … voyage of discovery” also will screen on Sky’s Discovery Channel from the same day. Here’s the media release: […]

Sky Movies Premiere Millie Lies Low  Paradise City Bullet Train Halloween Ends Three Thousand Years of Longing  Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday  Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Armageddon Time Sky Movies Classics Kelly’s Heroes  Wrong Arm of the Law Legends of the Fall Buchanan Rides Again  Sky Movies Comedy Best In Show  The Longest Week  Goon […]

Some early SoHo classics line up alongside relative newcomers, including the Sue Perkins romp Hitmen and the interactive guide to human emotions and experiences, Brene Brown: Atlas of the Heart, next month on Sky Box Sets. Screening in order of their nightly 7.30 transmission are: The Newsroom S1 Californication S1 Nurse Jackie S1 Let The Right One In Banshee S1 The Deuce S1 […]

White House Plumbers (May 2) is HBO’s take on the Watergate scandal, from the perspectives of two of the break-in’s masterminds: E Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) and G Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux). Billed as being from the producers of Succession and Veep, its creative credentials are impeccable. Reads the blurb: Set in 1971, both Hunt […]

Sky subscribers at last can upgrade their ageing My Sky recorder for the new albeit long-delayed Sky Box that offers the potential to record five channels at once. Here’s the media release: The new Sky Box officially launches to Sky customers The Sky team is thrilled to let Sky customers know that, from today, they […]

This is not an April fool’s joke — Sky will screen coverage of Tata Indian Premier League cricket from Saturday. Here’s the media release: Sky secures the Tata IPL for the 2023 season There’s nothing quite as exhilarating as the Tata Indian Premier League, the world’s biggest cricketing league, especially when the teams are stacked […]

Sky will not be replacing National Geographic with a new HD service but hopefully the bandwidth that’s freed up will be used to improve picture quality on other channels. “Our team will allocate that to its best use,” a Sky spokesperson says. “We don’t have any channel announcements at this time.” NatGeo fades to black […]