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Next month Sky Box Sets will screen six seasons of Strike Back on consecutive nights ahead of season seven’s February 16 premiere on SoHo. It will also re-run the first five seasons of Power as a curtain-raiser to S6’s premiere. Screening in order their nightly broadcast will be: Snowfall S2 The First S1 I Am […]

Next month Sky’s SoHo2 will premiere the abolitionist drama The Good Lord Bird (9.30 Wednesdays from February 19). The Showtime series stars Ethan Hawke as abolitionist John Brown but is told from the perspective of a teenage slave. Hawke this month told US TV critics of his character’s controversial reputation: “If you read his letters […]

Expect season three of HBO’s Westworld to premiere here on March 16. The US cable giant announced today the futuristic hit will return on March 15 and traditionally Sky’s SoHo airs the series the same time as HBO. It will take over the 3pm and 8.30 Monday slots that HBO’s latest drama series, The Outsider, […]

Sky’s Neon will start streaming Love Island UK from January 14. The series bombed last year on Three, when the broadcaster tried to shoehorn the racy show into a 5pm slot as the lead-in to Newshub Live. But it performed well on ThreeNow and there will be six new episodes a week on Neon “Express” […]

The Jennifer Lopez policewoman drama Shades of Blue debuts next week on Sky 5 fours years after it launched in the US. The show ran for three seasons and will screen 9.30 Wednesdays from January 8. It’s not clear why Shades of Blue has taken so long to land here but, like The Gifted and […]

MOTHERLAND (S2, 7.30 Thursdays from January 2) A collective sigh of relief can be heard across the Motherland as a new school term dawns. It’s also dawned on Julia that she still hasn’t sorted her childcare. Her wonderful husband has decided to step up to the mark and train for Iron Man. The alpha mums […]

Sky Box Sets will screen the NZ broadcast premiere of PEN15 on January 5. It stars comics Maya Erskine (Wine Country) and Anna Konkle (Rosewood) as versions of themselves as teenage outcasts in the year 2000. Adults Maya and Anna – as their younger selves – are surrounded by actual teenagers as they re-experience some of the […]

Spark sells Lightbox to Sky    Spark has today announced that it has entered into an agreement for Sky Network Television Limited (Sky) to purchase its entertainment streaming business, Lightbox.   Matt Bain, Marketing Director for Spark, explains, “Early in 2019, we started a process to identify a local or international media partner who could enhance Lightbox’s content proposition and support its […]

Sky and Freeview today announced Prime could be streamed in HD on the SmartVU X streaming dongle and will be extended to other devices next year. The initiative coincides with Prime going HD on Freeview’s UHF service years after it was upgraded to 1080i on Sky’s satellite platform. Previous Sky CEO John Fellet long argued the […]

   Freeview UHF viewers can watch Prime TV in HD. The upgrade happened overnight and coincides with Prime’s owner, Sky, today relaunching BBC UKTV and BBC Earth in HD. The BBC channels are quasi HD (1440 x 1080i) but Prime offers 1920 x 1080i resolution (the not-so-good news is audio appears to be stereo only). […]