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TVNZ 2 has opted to proceed with this week’s launch of Whiskey Cavalier — despite pulling the originally scheduled double-episode premiere on Sunday because it was deemed inappropriate in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings. The first episode will screen 8.30 tomorrow in what will be its weekly Wednesday slot. Whiskey Cavalier is an […]

The Looming Tower | SoHo, 8.30 Thursday ➢ “Hulu asserted its ambition last year with the dystopian literary adaptation The Handmaid’s Tale, a drama that resonated with viewers thanks to its congruence with certain strains in the culture in 2017. Now the streaming service is hoping for continued success with The Looming Tower, a series […]

The Looming Tower, an ambitious Hulu dramatisation of the FBI-CIA turf war that may have led to 9/11, will screen 8.30 Thursdays from March 15 on SoHo. “Through the first three of its 10 hours, this adaptation of Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer-winning book is the sort of slice of history that one used to find on HBO: […]

Sky has beaten Amazon Prime in NZ for the rights to The Looming Tower, a dramatisation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book subtitled Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. The 10-part series was commissioned by US streaming service Hulu and picked up globally by Amazon Prime for more than 200 of its territories. But NZ won’t […]