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A Very Secret Service | Netflix, from Monday ➢➢ “This droll spy parody pokes fun at the grittier world of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, using Cold War Paris as an unsuspecting backdrop for its depiction of inept bureaucracy and eye-rolling office politics. Even the  dealing with Nazi generals or torturing prisoners, the action is always […]

A day after SoHo belatedly resumed The Hour, the BBC has axed the news drama. While the first series enjoyed a strong UK run, viewership halved during the second. Broadcast magazine reports the producers had intended to produce three series. “Writer Abi Morgan said she hoped to introduce new characters if the show got a […]

Fans of The Hour who wish to see the second series in HD will need to be SoHo subscribers or import the Blu-ray. Whereas the first series was released here on Blu-ray, the BBC has opted to offer the second on DVD only. It goes on sale in March, following its SoHo run, which begins February […]

SoHo at last will premiere the latest seasons of The Hour and Treme. Season two of the former and season three of the latter will go to air in February. Whereas SoHo screens most of its HBO, Showtime and AMC fare within weeks of the US channels, both The Hour and Treme have had their […]

SoHo will follow season two of The Killing, which continues tonight at 8.30 on Sky 10, with the subtitled Danish original, Forbrydelsen.  The bad news is it won’t screen in HD but the good news is it’s much better than the US re-make. It was released here on DVD last year and series two comes out […]

Six Feet Under fans at last can look forward to seeing the Fisher family in HD when season three starts on Sky’s SoHo channel on May 4. HBO made the first two seasons of the Alan (True Blood) Ball drama available only in SD for the first two seasons. Unlike The Sopranos, which was in […]

Two of SoHo’s signature dramas bow on Blu-ray this week: Boardwalk Empire and The Hour. The latter lands here only weeks after its broadcast while the former’s taken more than a year to arrive. Indeed, season one of Boardwalk Empire is being released on the eve of SoHo’s season-two finale (Sky 10, 8.30pm Sunday). I […]

SoHo Highlight: The Hour (Sky 10, 8.30, F) There are tensions for all as the team prepare to defy government instruction and deliver a controversial episode on the crisis in Suez; Freddie finally learns what happened to Ruth; and Hector and Bel come to a decision. The Guardian thought “The Hour capably, if a little predictably, wrapped up its storylines” — […]

SoHo Highlight: The Hour (Sky 10, 7.30) The effects of Tom’s death are still being felt around the newsroom where two huge stories are breaking: Freddie’s disappeared and a newly confident Hector’s leading the charge (while his affair with Bel gathers steam). “This feels like the episode in which The Hour really bedded in,” The Guardian reported. “Partly because […]

SoHo Highlight: The Hour (Sky 10, 8.30) Ratings are down, reviews are terrible and Hector and Freddie are bickering. As events escalate in Suez, Bel seeks an interview with an Egyptian diplomat but is Hector up to it? Meanwhile, Freddie searches for clues to Ruth’s death. “If the spy stuff and the journalism stuff got a […]