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SoHo Premiere: The Newsroom (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) For one night only — Aaron Sorkin’s talky take on the cable new business that US critics have both roasted and toasted. SoHo was going to launch the series this month but rather than risk it getting lost amid Olympic Games headlines, has opted to hold it […]

This week HBO renewed rookie drama The Newsroom after just one episode — and only hours ahead of the second tanking in the ratings. The premiere screens Sunday July 18 on SoHo (Sky 10, 8.30) and is being previewed, in HD, on Sky’s on-demand service from Sunday. (The series will air 8.30 Mondays from August 13.) […]

SoHo will premiere Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom on July 18 but won’t screen the series proper until August. It had intended to debut the cable news drama 10 days earlier, with subsequent episodes to air thereafter. But rather than risk the series getting lost amid next month’s wall-to-wall Olympics coverage, Sky’s opted to tease SoHo […]

NZ will be among the first territories to see “easily the most buzzworthy show” of the LA Screenings, The Newsroom. An updated Broadcast News meets The West Wing, the behind-the-scenes-of-a-cable news network drama is from Aaron Sorkin. He not only wrote the long-running White House drama series but also won an Oscar for the screenplay […]

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release Oscar favourite The Social Network in two Blu-ray editions on March 2 – nearly two months after the controversial dramatisation of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s rise went on sale in the US. The single disc will have two audio commentaries: one by director David Fincher, the other by screenwriter […]