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Prodigal Son | TVNZ OnDemand, from Tuesday ☆☆☆☆ “Fox’s newest crime procedural that has a delicious twist: Our titular hero Malcolm Bright (Tom Payne) is a brainy, frenetic serial killer profiler who also happens to be the son of one of New York’s most infamous murderers, Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen), aka The Surgeon … Together, they are […]

Sky Box Sets will screen a week-long marathon of the first seven seasons of Game of Thrones ahead of S8’s premiere on SoHo. It will also offer another chance to see the sci-fi noir Hard Sun and all three seasons of The Leftovers. Screening in order of their nightly 7.30 rotation will be: Game of Thrones S1 […]

Sky Box Sets will premiere the final season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend over two nights next month. Younger’s fifth season also will make its SBS premiere and three of Dexter’s eight seasons will screen on the channel for the first time. And ahead of Billions’ fourth-season premiere on SoHo, SBS will screen the first three on consecutive […]

Lightbox is celebrating Christmas with a slew of initiatives, including a new programming deal with CBS Studios International. The premium library titles range from Deadwood, Dexter and Nurse Jackie to fare that has never aired here in HD, including House of Lies, which MediaWorks wasted on Four, and the terrific high stakes Boston crime drama […]

The final season of Breaking Bad on Blu-ray abounds in extras but the latest series of Dexter and Mad Men on disc will leave fans fuming. “For the first time, a season of Mad Men has been released on Blu-ray without any commentary from series creator Matthew Weiner or the cast and crew. “There’s no indication of why this incredibly enlightening and entertaining […]

On the eve of all of the Dexter seasons at last being available on Blu-ray in NZ, the show’s writers will come under the spotlight in a new SoHo documentary series called The Writer’s Room. It goes to air on November 21, when it will premiere with a behind-the-scenes insight into the writing of Game […]

Kudos to Sky’s SoHo channel for screening tonight’s 9.30 series finale of Breaking Bad within hours of the US. Who would have thought only a couple of years ago that Kiwis would catch up with Walter White’s past so fast. After years of languishing on the shelf at MediaWorks after only a first-season run on […]

Showtime’s pre-emption of Dexter next week for a holiday in the US will delay Boardwalk Empire’s season-four premiere on SoHo by another week. Bad enough that Boardwalk Empire was going to air here two weeks after its HBO debut, anyway. But now we’ll be running three weeks behind the US, with the premiere postponed until […]

After an exceptional run of series screening within only hours or days of their US broadcast, SoHo is unexpectedly delaying the debut of hot new crime drama Ray Donovan. The Showtime series goes to air in the US on June 30, the same night as the final season of stablemate Dexter premieres. SoHo will launch […]

SoHo will screen the eighth and final season of Dexter only hours after its US broadcast but True Blood again will air first on Prime. Sky’s premium HD drama channel has just announced its July highlights, which are headed by Dexter, and seasons two of Magic City and The Newsroom. But there’s no sign of True […]