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Next month’s Sky Box Sets will screen a slew of series new to the channel and a True Blood marathon. None of the newcomers are NZ premieres but include an early HBO series not seen in years, the outstanding Carnivàle (the bad news is it will be in SD). Other debuts will include Patrick Melrose, Britannia, […]

Patrick Melrose | SoHo, 8.30 Tuesday ➢ “News that a TV adaptation of the Patrick Melrose novels was in the works quite rightly raised some eyebrows. Edward St Aubyn’s pentalogy, a semi-autobiographical series about a young aristocratic addict who was sexually abused by his father, would surely be impossible to film. The stories are all character […]

   An unprecedented number of British dramas will premiere next month on SoHo, along with another Amazon Prime pick-up, Fleabag. Patrick Melrose, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch in an adaptation of Edward St. Aubyn’s novels, is a Sky Atlantic-Showtime co-production while CB Strike and Little Women were BBC commissions. Patrick Melrose is a flamboyant, aristocratic playboy […]