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Dublin Murders, an acclaimed BBC thriller that went to air this week in the UK, will premiere November 17 on SoHo. The Guardian hailed the adaptation of the Tana French novels as “a breathless whodunnit with more dread by the minute” and The Telegraph, “an old-fashioned crime drama …. pitched somewhere between a Nordic noir […]

Season three of SoHo’s True Detective will open with a double-episode on January 14 and screen the same time — 3pm — as its HBO premiere. The eight-part series will explore the mystery around a macabre crime in the Ozarks that deepens over 30 years. Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), Stephen Dorff (Immortals), Carmen Ejogo (Selma), Josh Hopkins […]

   Next month Sky Box Sets will screen the first two seasons of True Detective as a curtain-raiser to season three’s January 14 premiere on SoHo. Says Esquire of S3: “With Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali in the lead role, the first trailer for new season appears to deliver everything that made the first season such a […]

Neon will premiere in HD season two of Marvel’s Runaways within three days of its Hulu return. The superhero series will stream from December 24, the same week Sky 5 screens in SD the DC crossover event, Elseworlds (The Flash, December 17; Arrow, December 18; Supergirl, December 19). Also new to Neon next month will […]

Vida | SoHo2, 7.30 Thursday ☆☆☆☆ “The rare drama series to focus on Latino characters — who are female and/or queer, no less — Vida only somewhat lives up to the colour, richness and excitement maybe promised by its title (the Spanish feminine noun for ‘life’) … Sporting vibrant East La La Land locations and piquant touches of magical […]

  Some of SoHo’s best and brightest series, including Boardwalk Empire, True Blood and Shameless, can be seen again from the beginning next month on Sky Box Sets, along with all five seasons of House of Lies (which originally aired on TV3 before switching to Four and then having a run on Lightbox). Also new […]

Raised by Wolves | Lightbox, from Tuesday ➢ “This loving and funny sitcom set on a Wolverhampton council estate puts poverty porn documentaries such as Benefits Street to shame … Benefits Street might have been shot a few miles down the road in Birmingham, but the same channel’s Raised by Wolves is a million miles from […]

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a Sky satellite beaming out all the latest seasons of DC Series like The Flash, Arrow, Super-girl and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. The under-siege satcaster has done a deal with Warner Bros International Television Distribution to secure exclusive first-run rights to the studio’s DC Comics heavyweights. […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday Chasing Monsters (TV1, 4.55) Animal Super Senses (TV3, 4.55) Movie: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (TV2, 5.10, R) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00)  Simply Nigella (Prime, 6.00, R) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Wonderful World of Disney: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: Johnny […]

“Sicario explodes onto Blu-ray with an excellent, reference quality high definition video presentation that is encoded in AVC MPEG-4 and framed in the film’s original 2.40:1 aspect ratio. “Lensed by the incredibly talented Roger Deakins, Sicario is a visual treat from start to finish … “Much like the characters’ journeys, the film descends into darkness for […]