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Homeland (SoHo, 8.30 Mondays) “Entering season 6, Homeland faces the challenge of age. More than ever, it needs annual, rejuvenating shots of ripped-from-the-headlines zeitgeist. It’s ironic, then, that the new season’s first two episodes demonstrate the risky business of writing to the future. ‘A new paradigm’ is a thematic buzz phrase, with characters and their society chasing or […]

Hawaii Five-O no longer on Death Row … The Night Of’s grand finale … Catch up with Catch Fire … Mayoral frontrunners on Back Benches … The good news for fans of Hawaii Five-O after years of it being in and out of primetime is it will stay in peak hour long enough to mark its […]

The Night Of (SoHo, 8.30 Wednesday) “Adapted by Steve Zaillian and Richard Price from the BBC series Criminal Justice, The Night Of is as much conceit as story. Lives intersect when a beautiful young woman is brutally stabbed and a young man, who appears to be a victim of circumstance, is charged. There will be […]

Next month SoHo will premiere a New York City crime drama from Oscar-winning writer Steven Zaillian that could be the channel’s most electrifying series since the original True Detective. According to the publicity, The Night Of  “delves into the intricacies of a complex New York City murder case with compelling cultural and political overtones … through multiple, […]