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Pearson | Neon, from Thursday ☆☆☆☆ “Pearson is named for Gina Torres’ steely do-gooder attorney Jessica Pearson, newly arrived from Suits’ New York to clean up Chicago as a fixer in the mayor’s administration. In a previous backdoor pilot, Jessica headed to Chicago to file a lawsuit against the city on behalf of an estranged […]

Blessed be the day: Lightbox at last is starting to caption the programmes it streams, starting with the first three seasons of The Handmaid’s Tale. It also plans to caption selected movie rentals. Curiously, among the reasons it doesn’t site for the captioning is the difficulty some of have hearing dialogue on content that isn’t […]

July will be light on premieres for Spark’s streaming service Lightbox, with only three exclusive newcomers: The InBetween, season three of Harlots and the final season of Suits. The InBetween is another network procedural with a gimmick, about a woman with visions who helps her detective father and his FBI partner to solve challenging crimes. […]

Lightbox is resurrecting for new episodes a stunning Danish drama that originally aired on TVNZ 1. Season two of Ride Upon the Storm can be streamed from January 12 and last month won two of its stars International Emmy Awards. If you haven’t seen the electrifying first season, which aired 9.30 Sundays earlier this year, […]

Spark’s streaming service Lightbox, which this week marked its fourth birthday, has picked up the BBC series Age Before Beauty. Set in a Manchester hair salon, the family drama stars Robson Green, Sue Johnston and Polly Walker. It ended its UK run this week as one of the BBC’s 30 most-watched shows and is likely […]

➢➢ TVNZ 2 is fine-tuning its Friday night line-up with the addition of ITV game show Japandemonium, which is described as “a review of the best of brilliantly bonkers Japanese TV”. It will replace season nine re-runs of The Big Bang Theory from July 27 as the network’s latest weapon to topple 7 Days from its top-rating […]

  Pacific Rim: Uprising ➢ “Pacific Rim: Uprising was shot digitally in the ARRIRAW codec (at 2.8 and 3.4K) using ARRI Alexa cameras and Panavision anamorphic lenses. It was finished as a 2K Digital Intermediate, upsampled to 4K, and graded for high dynamic range in both HDR10 and Dolby Vision. It’s presented here on Ultra […]

Next month Lightbox will fast-track weekly episodes of season eight of Suits and premiere the latest exclusive seasons of Harlots and UnREAL. It will also debut the mini-series, Midwinter of the Spirit, which stars Motherland’s Anna Maxwell Martin as a solo mum exorcist. The Telegraph thought the 2015 production “an exceptionally creepy visit to the […]

Lightbox at last shines the light on one of the most acclaimed British comedies of the past two years, Raised by Wolves. Loosely based on the home-schooled childhoods of popular British comedian, columnist and author of How To Be A Woman, Caitlin Moran, and her sister, Caroline, seasons one and two will stream from March 13. “This […]

Lightbox has picked up an explosive new BBC drama series starring Game of Thrones’ Kit Harington. Gunpowder, which dramatises Guy Fawkes’ attempt to blow up Parliament, will stream from January 25. The three-part series, which also stars Liv Tyler, Peter Mullan and Mark Gatiss, focuses on Harington’s character, Robert Catesby, the Catholic who engineered the […]