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Frayed | SoHo2, 8.30 Sundays ☆☆☆☆ “Samantha has a dream life in London. But when her husband dies in a sexually compromising situation, she ends up broke, desperate and Down Under … It’s billed as a comedy but for the opening episode the gags thin out. This leaves a drama leavened by the blackly humorous […]

Aside from Game of Thrones’ swansong, SoHo2 has a more vibrant line-up of premieres in April than its sister channel. Screening in order of their debuts will be: Veep: Season Seven (7.30 Wednesdays from April 3) The critically acclaimed series returns for its final season. Julia Louis-Dreyfus  leads an ensemble cast as Selina Meyer, the former president, who struggles […]

SoHo debuts Girls’ sixth and final season 8.30 tonight on a new night. Traditionally it’s aired Thursdays but SoHo’s switched it to Wednesday so it could air new drama Legion (8.30 Thursdays) within 24 hours of the US. From next week it will be teamed with the Pete Holmes comedy, Crashing, and from March 8 re-runs […]

Divorce (SoHo, 8.30 Thursdays) “In 1998, playing the relationship columnist Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker helped usher in HBO’s golden age and define a Manhattan gilded age. So it’s unavoidable to wonder if her new HBO series, Divorce, is Sex and the City 18 years later. It is not. It’s more like a […]

On the eve of SoHo belatedly premiering season four of Episodes, Showtime has renewed the Matt LeBlanc comedy for a fifth run of nine episodes. The show’s renewal coincides with another Showtime staple, Nurse Jackie, about to wrap after seven seasons. If only NZ networks treated Episodes with as much respect as Showtime. TV1 quickly […]

The final season of Mad Men will screen here closer to its US air date than any of its predecessors. SoHo has scheduled it to screen 7.30 Tuesdays from April 7, which will be less than two days after it unspools on AMC. That’s not as swift as SoHo’s simulcast of Game of Thrones but […]