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  The networks and Sky TV are continuing to programme on eggshells in the wake of Friday’s horrendous mosque shootings. Sensitivity to tragedy is to be commended but the overreaction to content with any vestige of violence or terrorism themes means virtually only the news is safe to focus on such concerns. I thought the […]

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 […]

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan | Amazon Prime, from Friday ➢➢ “The origin story of spy guy Jack Ryan, the hero of many a Tom Clancy novel and their numerous screen adaptations, has been told before. But this is a superior version. Instead of playing Ryan as a bland Boy Scout, the likable John Krasinski imbues […]

Strike Back | SoHo, 9.30 Sunday ➢ “The new season wastes little time introducing viewers to a new team of elite soldiers who ensure the now-familiar themes and adrenaline-fueled excitement of Strike Back remain firmly in place as Cinemax makes a strong return to its action roots … The result is yet another visually stunning but intense […]

Here and Now (3.00 Mondays from February 12) Alan Ball’s new HBO drama series focuses on a modern multiracial family – a philosophy professor, his obsessive wife, their three adopted children from Liberia, Vietnam and Colombia, and a sole biological child – undergoing life changes and emotional challenges. It will screen the same time as the US and stars Holly […]

SoHo is replacing the August 17 premiere of Show Me a Hero, which debuts next week in the US, with the Andy Samberg sports mockumentary, 7 Days in Hell. Show Me a Hero, a six-part drama from David Simon, the creator of The Wire and Treme, will air next month as part of a refreshed Thursday line-up on […]

Sky will launch a SoHo pop-up channel in July with marathon re-runs of some of its top series. It will run from July 2-August 2 on Channel 210 and screen nightly triple episodes of Ray Donovan (seasons one and two), Masters of Sex (S1-2) and Hell on Wheels (S1-4). Ray Donovan will air from July […]

Into the Storm is the most eye-popping new release in a week light on quality. “The 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 encode is just as pretty as you’d hope and completely void of compression flaws. “The video quality is so good, in fact, that it reveals how imperfect some of the CG work is – which I somehow […]

All bad things must come to end, quips SoHo’s publicist of Breaking Bad’s last days — but when will the premium drama channel start to screen one of US TV’s best things? SoHo has still to announce where it will schedule crime drama sensation Ray Donovan, which goes to air this weekend in the US […]