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Helen Mirren stars as Catherine the Great in a new SoHo2 drama series of the same name that will air 8.30 Wednesdays from October 9. The epic costume drama, a co-pro between Sky UK and HBO, goes to air in the UK on October 3. According to Sky, this four-part drama delves into “the politically […]

  The latest seasons of Mary Kills People and Power will premiere next month on Sky Box Sets. In S5 of Power, Ghost is in a dangerous alliance with his former brother-in-arms Tommy Egan and mortal enemy Kanan. Ghost is blind to new enemies and must remain vigilant toward those wanting to take him down. In S3 […]

Sky Box Sets will premiere season three of The Expanse on August 2. IndieWire called the opening episodes “a nearly seamless continuation of what happened in Season 2. “Nearly every character’s journey goes on as if there were no break to speak of. Structurally, it’s not how we conventionally break down seasons of television, and at […]

You won’t have to subscribe to Sky TV to see some of next month’s top premieres on SoHo. Two of next month’s most anticipated newcomers, Sharp Objects and Succession, plus the latest season of The Affair, will be available to stream on Sky’s Neon platform, along with the recently screened Barry, Silicon Valley (S5) and Save Me, […]

  Sky has tied up HBO content in this market with a new multi-year deal that puts streaming upstarts on notice and will include developing an HBO Download to Go app. The pact cements Sky’s entrenched partnership with HBO, which  began with the launch of the SoHo channel in 2011, and nixes prospects of HBO […]

Amid the high-profile returns of Westworld, Legion, Silicon Valley and Fear the Walking Dead next month on SoHo, don’t overlook the premiere of violent hitman hoot Barry (10.00 Fridays from April 6). It launches this weekend on HBO and stars Saturday Night Live alumni Bill Hader as a depressed, low-rent hitman from the Midwest who falls in love with […]

Silicon Valley (SoHo, 8.30 Thursdays) “As the fourth, astute-as-ever season of Silicon Valley begins … for the first time, the Pied Piper team’s focus is divided … The splintering of the group enables the series to open new channels of competitiveness between the principal characters while also continuing to do what it does best: develop admirably intricate […]

“Truth‘s 1080p transfer won’t redefine the way people view Blu-ray, but it’s a solid, source-based image that carries the movie well. The digital photography translates easily to 1080p, reproducing, often, fine and exacting details in the broader spectrum of clothes, faces, and general backgrounds in homes, offices, and studios.” “Slick, vibrant, and razor sharp best […]

HBO has renewed Veep and Silicon Valley only one week into their latest seasons. The cable channel’s funniest comedies return 8.30 tonight on SoHo just a few days after their HBO premieres. The bad news is Veep creator Armando Iannucci won’t be involved with season five. “We have had conversations with Armando for some time about the […]

New Zealand’s entry in the Oscar foreign-language category, The Dead Lands, lands on Blu-ray the same week as Aussie zombie sensation Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead. The Dead Lands, a Maori language action-adventure about a chieftain avenging his father’s murder, stars Boy’s James Rolleston and Marco Polo’s Lawrence Makoare. Wyrmwood has been dubbed a “Mad […]