Tag Archives: Halt and Catch Fire

Ace Deuce for SoHo in September

SoHo will fast-track HBO’s The Deuce, the latest drama series from David Simon (The Wire, Treme), to screen here the same time as the US (1.00 Mondays from September 11). It chronicles the rise of the porn industry in New York City, which was driven by its gradual legalisation and a politically motivated effort to “clean […]

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HD Heads-Up: August 24

Hawaii Five-O no longer on Death Row … The Night Of’s grand finale … Catch up with Catch Fire … Mayoral frontrunners on Back Benches … The good news for fans of Hawaii Five-O after years of it being in and out of primetime is it will stay in peak hour long enough to mark its […]

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Critical Condition: Halt and Catch Fire

Halt and Catch Fire (S0H0, 9.30 Wednesdays) “Halt and Catch Fire is both a retro pleasure and a forward-looking gem … Halt picks up its third season in 1986, a few months after the gang from the tech company Mutiny made the trip from Texas to San Francisco … There are many things to love about Halt — […]

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James Purefoy as Hap Collins and Michael Kenneth Williams as Leonard Pine- Hap and Leonard _ Season 1, Gallery - Photo Credit: James Minchin/SundanceTV

SoHo No Longer Hap-less

The biggest mystery about SoHo picking up the “swamp noir” Hap and Leonard is why it’s taken so long. The darkly comic series, based on the novels by Joe Lansdale, went to air in the US in March. In an age when Game of Thrones can screen the same time as it does on HBO, it’s […]

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My Sky + … SoHo in June

SoHo will screen season two of True Detective the same day as HBO but probably not at the same time. It will air 8.30 Mondays from June 22, replacing Game of Thrones — the series that made history as the first HBO drama to screen simultaneously around the globe. Sky has yet to confirm if True Detective will also […]

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New Silicon Prairie Drama for SoHo

New Silicon Prairie Drama for SoHo

Fans of the HBO comedy Silicon Valley can look forward to a dramatic treatment of the PC revolution when SoHo premieres Halt and Catch Fire on September 17. The AMC (Mad Men, The Walking Dead) series, which will air 9.30 Wednesdays after Ray Donovan, is set in the Silicon Prairie of Texas in the 1980s, when […]

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