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The Channel That Couldn’t Shoot Straight

Sky has blamed “distributor confusion” on the final season of Hell on Wheels screening out of sequence. “Due to distributor confusion around production numbering, episodes four and five of Hell on Wheels S5B were aired out of order,” it said in a programming update to media. “We will be airing both episodes back to back in […]

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Last Spin for Hell on Wheels

Hell on Wheels saddles up for its last ride into the sunset when the second half of the fifth and final season premieres 9.30 tonight on SoHo. It culminates in a gruelling showdown that star Anson Mount reckons is “one of the best episodes the series has ever done” and opens with a flashback that lends perspective to the character of […]

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A June to Swoon Over On SoHo

Heading SoHo’s highlights in June is a new series from Robert Kirkman, the creator of The Walking Dead. Outcast, which will replace Fear the Walking Dead 9.30 Mondays from June 6, is billed as “an epic new horror series delving deep into the world of demonic possession”. Cinemax (Strike Back) in the US already has ordered […]

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My Sky + … SoHo in August

David Simon, the creator of The Wire and Treme, predicts no one will watch his new HBO series, Show Me a Hero, which premieres next month on SoHo. “I don’t believe anyone’s going to watch this,” he told an interviewer for Grantland. “You are not going to get zombie-like numbers for a story about 200 units […]

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SoHo to Showcase Second Channel in July

SoHo to Showcase Second Channel in July

Sky will launch a SoHo pop-up channel in July with marathon re-runs of some of its top series. It will run from July 2-August 2 on Channel 210 and screen nightly triple episodes of Ray Donovan (seasons one and two), Masters of Sex (S1-2) and Hell on Wheels (S1-4). Ray Donovan will air from July […]

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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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New to Blu: TV > June 25-July 1

New to Blu: TV > June 25-July 1

The year’s most sensational new crime dramas — True Detective and Ray Donovan — can now be investigated on Blu-ray. “With the exception of some fleeting artifacts, True Detective comes to Blu-ray with an impeccable transfer that preserves the show’s powerful visual style.” “Equally impressive is HBO’s DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround track, which masterfully […]

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Press Release: Quickflix Announces Launch of Latest TV Service

Press Release: Quickflix Announces Launch of Latest TV Service

Quickflix today announces the launch of its new TV service, which will offer latest season TV series to customers, whether they are Quickflix subscribers or not. The new offering from Quickflix, which will launch soon, is brand new for New Zealand and will allow Kiwis to stream-to-own leading international TV shows on an episode-by-episode or […]

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HD Period Dramas Full Steam Ahead

HD Period Dramas Full Steam Ahead

AMC, the home of Mad Men, is tuning into period drama with a vengeance — or not such a vengeance in the case of Hell on Wheels’ third season. It premieres next month on SoHo and is abandoning its vengeance storyline for a considerably more ambitious take on the transformation of the Old West. According to […]

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SoHo Breaks the Good News to Bad Fans

SoHo Breaks the Good News to Bad Fans

All bad things must come to end, quips SoHo’s publicist of Breaking Bad’s last days — but when will the premium drama channel start to screen one of US TV’s best things? SoHo has still to announce where it will schedule crime drama sensation Ray Donovan, which goes to air this weekend in the US […]

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