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Lightbox will stream the latest seasons of Mr Mercedes and The Good Doctor weekly from mid-late September while Downton Abbey fans will be able to binge on all six seasons before seeing the movie. Season three of Mr Mercedes has Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson) tracking down the killer of a beloved author. Whereas S1 of Mr Mercedes covered […]

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 […]

Lightbox will stream season one of the latest Stephen King series, Castle Rock, from September 13. Next month it also will express from the US season two of The Good Doctor (weekly from September 25) and pick up season three of Hulu comedy Casual (September 5), season eight of Modern Family (September 19) and Rockies […]

The Resident | TVNZ 2, 8.50 Monday ➢ “Dr. Conrad Hawkins (The Good Wife’s Matt Czuchry), The Resident of Fox’s new medical drama, doesn’t play by the rules. He’s foul-mouthed, obnoxious, has no respect for authority but he gets results. We’ve seen him before. And we’ve seen him on much better shows. Resident (★½ out of four) is an exercise […]

The Good Doctor | Lightbox, from Monday ➢ “The Good Doctor has something crucial to say, and it has a killer cast, and it does an amazing amount of setup in Monday’s efficient pilot hour. Young doctor-to-be Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore, Bates Motel) is on his way to a new life in a city sure […]

Top-rated medical drama The Good Doctor will stream in weekly double-episodes on Lightbox from February 5. The series stars Bates Motel’s Freddie Highmore as a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome. The surprise hit of the 2017/18 season in the US, it’s also #1 in Australia, the UK, Canada, Korea and Spain. Its acquisition is a […]

Spark’s streaming service Lightbox is about to notch up its 300,000th subscriber on the eve of premiering top-rating US drama The Good Doctor. “We are incredibly proud of the progress we have made to take Lightbox from an idea to one of New Zealand’s most popular SVOD services in just three years,” Lightbox General Manager Hema […]