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SoHo Highlight: Veep (Sky 10, 9.00, 5.1) Selina uses a baseball stadium to launch an anti-obesity campaign. Most US bloggers thought this one of the best episodes yet because of a pivotal plot point. “While Baseball might not have been the funniest episode of Veep it gave the show some focus as it is the first episode […]

SoHo Highlight: Girls (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Hannah is confused by her boss’s mixed signals, as well as Adam’s; Marnie and Charlie assess their relationship; Jessa is determined to re-conquer an ex. This was producer Judd Apatow’s favourite episode but most critics thought it one of the least. “I don’t know what Hard Being Easy was trying to do, besides annoy/baffle the […]

SoHo Highlight: Veep (Sky 10, 9.00, 5.1) According to The Guardian, which was correct in its assessment of last week’s disappointing episode: “Finally, after three episodes of over-long scene-setting and forgettable dialogue, Veep gets it together. The difference between episode four and the previous three is that here the situation provides the comedy and the pace, […]

SoHo Highlight: Veep (Sky 10, 9.00, 5.1) “Third episode in, and this should be where the series is hitting its stride,” said The Guardian. “Instead it tripped on its shoelaces and landed face-down. Except that might have been funny. Which this wasn’t. In fact this episode nudged the needle from so-so to bad.” But bear […]

Season Highlight: Fringe (TV2, 10.30, 5.1) Bolivia and her team call upon their counterparts from This Side to help track a serial killer who “drains the brain of happy memories”. US critic thought episode two of season four especially memorable. HitFix said this “often stunning episode … is the show at its empathetic best”  while the AV Club called it […]

SoHo Highlight: Top Boy (Sky 10, 8.30) Season finale: Dushane’s loyalty to his accomplice and best friend, Sully, is tested; Heather goes into labour; Lisa, distraught and desperate, is left to rely on Leon to prevent certain tragedy. The Independent called part four “so tense that there were times when it was hard to watch. Ronan Bennett’s […]

SoHo Highlight: Top Boy (Sky 10, 8.30) In part three of four about drug trafficking on an East London housing estate, time is running out for Dushane and Sully to find Kamale and repay their debt to Raikes, Ra’Nell turns to Leon to help Gem, and Heather dreams of her new life. As The Arts Desk observed: […]

TV2’s week-long HD ratings tumble continued Thursday with Once Upon a Time’s fairy tale run taking a dark turn. It slumped in all the key demographics, with household shoppers posting the steepest fall: from 15.6% the previous week to 10.6%. And the news wasn’t much better with TV2’s target audience: the 18-39 average was down […]

SoHo Highlight: Top Boy (Sky 10, 8.30) In part two of four, Dushane and Sully find themselves in debt to Raikes and under increasing pressure to retrieve their stash from Kamale, Dushane’s ambitions begin to spill into the lives of his family, and Lisa shows signs of improvement. How realistic is this series about a drug-riddled housing estate? […]

SoHo Highlight: Top Boy (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) In part one of four about life on a drug-ridden East London housing estate, a 13-year-old finds he has to “step up and be a man” when his mother is hospitalised after a breakdown. “It feels like this is a drama that isn’t going to end well for anyone,” The […]