Tag Archives: Queer as Folk

Critical Condition: A Very English Scandal

A Very English Scandal | SoHo, 8.30 Wednesday ☆☆☆☆ “Although comedy may provide the spoonful of sugar that relieves life’s bitterness, it can also be used to emphasise its cold, relentless injustice … So it is with A Very English Scandal, which tells the true story of UK MP Jeremy Thorpe’s gay relationship with Norman Scott in the […]

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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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Zero Dark Thirty Doco Gets Game of Thrones Slot

Zero Dark Thirty Doco Gets Game of Thrones Slot

The downside of SoHo screening Game of Thrones only hours after HBO is NZ fans are subject to the same interruptions as those in the US. Because the medieval fantasy is going “on hiatus” for one week next month, Sky will replace it with a documentary about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. SoHo bills […]

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