Tag Archives: Dickensian

New to TVNZ OnDemand in December

TVNZ OnDemand will launch season two of The Orville on New Year’s Eve. New episodes of the Seth McFarlane sci-fi comedy will stream weekly the same day as their Fox TV broadcast. Also new to the platform are the investigative documentary, TrustWHO, which goes live today, and the BBC’s 2016 docu-soap Ice Town: Life on […]

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HD Heads-Up: December 1 – 7

➢➢ It’s a vexing indictment of TVNZ’s schedules when its best prospects are online. TVNZ OnDemand has invested in a 100-hour slate of 12 British shows — some new, some ancient — that will stream from December 3. The undoubted highlights are the Sean Bean drama, Broken, about a Catholic priest in northern England, and […]

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SoHo Recruits Period Spy Thriller

BBC Victorian spy drama The Secret Agent will premiere next month on SoHo. Tony (Dickensian) Marchant’s three-part adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s reputedly unfilmmable novel will air 8.30 Mondays from September 12, as a curtain raiser to October’s launch of Westworld in the slot. Set in 1886 London, it starts Toby Jones as a Soho shopkeeper who spies for the Russian […]

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