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Crashing (SoHo,  9.00 Wednesdays) “Comedian Pete Holmes has the kind of amiably innocent demeanor that would make him the perfect supermarket greeter but seems out of place in the cynical, cutthroat — and, at times, just plain coked-up — world of stand-up. That jarring disjunction fuels this New York-based show, a Judd Apatow-executive-produced, Holmes-created meta-sitcom in the tradition […]

SoHo will premiere the sixth and final season of Girls closer than usual to its HBO launch. Traditionally, the Lena Dunham comedy has aired three days after its HBO broadcast. But as part of a scheduling revamp that will shift SoHo’s two-hour comedy block from Thursdays to Wednesdays, the gap will narrow to two. As well as allowing SoHo’s […]

SoHo’s sensational new drama, Taboo, has some in the British press speculating it may reinvent the BBC as a UK HBO. The eight-part period drama, about a rogue who tries to build a shipping empire in the early 1800s to compete with the East India Company, will screen 8.30 Tuesdays from January 10 on SoHo. Produced […]

The producers of a new SoHo comedy/drama considered having the killer don a Donald Trump mask but thought it would be too hard to pull off legally. The Amazon-commissioned Mad Dogs, which is a US re-make of the British series, will premiere February 1 on SoHo and screen 9.30 Mondays. In the original, the killer wore a […]