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SoHo has rescheduled British police satire Babylon for next month — but prospects of a second season look grim after its ratings went into freefall in the UK. The original pilot, which aired 9pm on a Sunday in February, drew a consolidated (live and delayed) audience of 2.3 million. But since the series proper went […]

SoHo’s had to postpone next month’s premiere of Babylon because Channel 4 has not yet scheduled the police drama. It was tentatively slated for November but Channel 4 has still to announce a date. SoHo contractually can’t screen programmes until after they’ve screened in their native country, so it’s having to replace Babylon with an […]

Two top British drama series will screen in SoHo in November: Babylon and the return of The Fall. SoHo sneak peeked the pilot for Babylon earlier this year and will air the Channel 4 series 8.30 Thursdays from November 6. A wry take on life in London’s Metropolitan Police Force from Bafta winners Sam Bain […]

Within a month of The Bill finally ending its run on UK TV, two new next-generation Blighty police dramas — Babylon (above) and series two of Line of Duty — will premiere on SoHo. The former is a Danny Boyle-directed satirical drama relevant to NZ viewers — it tackles police PR — and is the movie-length pilot to a series starting […]