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Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver, Steve Carell and Sandra Bullock are among this week’s guests on Prime’s The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Oliver’s “special appearance” will have to satisfy fans of his series impatient for its return on SoHo: new episodes aren’t due to resume until mid-February. Here’s the full Late Show line-up: Monday, […]

About time — SoHo at last will air Real Time With Bill Maher. The politically incorrect talk show’s 15th season will screen 11.00 Mondays on Sky’s premium drama channel from April 17 (it will start with the US April 7 episode because the show’s on hiatus on April 14). For years SoHo has opted not to […]

SoHo will premiere the sixth and final season of Girls closer than usual to its HBO launch. Traditionally, the Lena Dunham comedy has aired three days after its HBO broadcast. But as part of a scheduling revamp that will shift SoHo’s two-hour comedy block from Thursdays to Wednesdays, the gap will narrow to two. As well as allowing SoHo’s […]

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 […]

SoHo’s first fake news show will debut tonight after scoring solid ratings and reviews on HBO at the weekend. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver will air 10 o’clock tonight ahead of The Daily Show’s overdue return to Comedy Central next week. Deadline Hollywood said the former Daily Show correspondent’s “bid to be Jon Stewart’s […]

SoHo will screen Last Week Tonight With John Oliver late-night Tuesdays from April 29, two days after its US broadcast. This is an about-turn for the premium drama channel, which wasn’t interested in picking up The Daily Show, on which Oliver made his name, or The Colbert Report when Sky’s Comedy Central inexplicably dumped them four […]