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   Game of Thrones: The Complete Eighth Season ➢ “If you fancy heading back to Westeros to relive the twists and turns, beheadings and back-stabbings, then you’re in luck. Game of Thrones‘ Blu-ray edition* includes a reunion show with the entire cast, which was recorded live in Belfast, hosted by Conan O’Brien. Then there’s a 30-minute featurette […]

Carnival Row | Amazon Prime Video, from Friday ☆☆☆☆ “The race to replace Game of Thrones has its latest entrant, with Amazon’s new Carnival Row, a series that combines fantasy, melodrama, ultraviolence, and strained political allegory. But, for now, the Thrones legacy seems safe: This new series reaches for credibility with gruesomeness and exaggeration, falling flat at […]

Season three of the revolutionary spies drama Turn is one of two series leaving Neon this month (the other is S1 of I’m Sorry). Turn is one of those neglected series for which Sky acquired only digital rights, not linear. The Netflix US site has all four seasons in HD but Neon’s stream is SD. […]

The Name of the Rose | SoHo, 9.30 Monday ☆☆☆☆ “Anyone with a cursory understanding of The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco’s religious murder mystery (and so much more), probably understands that it’s a fool’s errand to turn it into something visual. If the 1986 movie starring Sean Connery made this clear, a new miniseries confirms […]

  The recorded music documentary series Soundbreaking and the movies It and Dunkirk are among the Neon attractions that will leave Sky’s streaming platform in June. Not surprisingly, given the unprecedented interest in the final season, Game of Thrones is the most-streamed series on Neon. GoT stablemates The Game Revealed was the 10th most-streamed and Thronecast […]

Prime’s free-to-air faith in Game of Thrones paid off on Monday when the series final out-rated every other 9.30 show — except one — in key demographics. It averaged 2.0% of Prime’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds (compared to 0.2% for lead-in FBI), 1.5% of 18-49s and 1.3% of 18-39s. The last episode was the highest-rating […]

In NZ, LG is promoting its 2019 range of OLED TVs with sponsorship of Three’s Saturday night Star Wars season. But in the US the company has seized upon the heightened interest in Game of Thrones’ controversial final season with this clever promotion: It capitalises on the furore over the epic episode, The Long Night, […]

Killing Eve may have been the darling of the BAFTA TV Awards but continues to rate poorly on TVNZ 2. This week it won three BAFTAs for best drama series, actress (Jolie Comer) and supporting actress (Fiona Shaw). But the same day, in its 9.30 Monday slot, it averaged only 1.0% of 18-49 year-olds, TVNZ […]

Game of Thrones may be the world’s most talked about TV drama but Prime’s audacious free-to-air stripping of the final season opened badly on Sunday. The 9.30 broadcast of episode one averaged only 0.6% of Prime’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds. It was crushed by TVNZ 2 and Three’s network movie premieres of Rough Night and […]

Signalling Sky’s new-found ambitions for Prime, the free-to-air channel will strip the final season of Game of Thrones in primetime from May 12. The first five episodes will air 9.30 nightly, culminating in the sixth and final episode on May 20 — the same day it screens globally. This is an unprecedented move for Sky/Prime, […]