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Next month SoHo belatedly will premiere the acclaimed Agatha Christie dramatisation Ordeal by Innocence (9.30 Mondays from March 20). The BBC aired the three-part mystery nearly a year ago and it’s been on Amazon’s US platform since August. Given Sky now has two SoHo channels, it’s inexcusable that series of this calibre should take so long […]

➢ A Sunday Theatre take on horse-racing legend Kiwi will precede the season premiere of another Kiwi favourite Westside. Kiwi (TVNZ 1, 8.30 July 8) goes behind the stable doors to reveal how a farm hack went on to win the 1983 Melbourne Cup and will premiere 24 hours ahead of the return of Westside on […]

Gunpowder | Lightbox, from Thursday ➢ “This Kit Harington-starring three-parter got off to an explosive start. It might might be historically accurate but did it need to be quite so gruesome? … The first half hour is not the easiest of watches, tension followed by utter horribleness … It’s certainly historically fascinating, and genuine, in […]

Expect more than flesh wounds in a History Channel series about the Knights Templar that will screen on Sky’s premium drama showcase, SoHo. Knightfall will play 8.30 Wednesdays from December 13, a week after its US premiere (where History hopes it will be another Vikings, which Sky lost to the fledgling Lightbox). The 10-episode series […]