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Season two of Amazon Prime’s 4K courtroom drama, Goliath, will premiere on June 15. Created by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, Boston Legal) and Jonathan Shapiro (The Practice), Goliath was the top binged first season of a US-produced Prime Original series ever over its first ten days. It also won Billy Bob Thornton, who plays […]

Room 104 (SoHo, 9.30 Saturday) ➢ “HBO’s Room 104 by Mark and Jay Duplass (Togetherness, Animals) is a wildly creative drama set in a respectable roadside hotel room … A different scenario unfolds each week over 12 half-hour episodes. Though the show never leaves the one room, the characters, tone and story line vary so […]

Amid a slew of returning shows on SoHo in July, including season seven of Game of Thrones, is the premiere of an anthology drama about the goings-on in one room of a corporate hotel. Created by Jay and Mark Duplass (Animals, Togetherness), Room 104 taps into a variety of genres, from comedy and drama to thriller and horror, to explore […]

“Crimson Peak is flawless on Blu-ray. Resolution and image detail are endless, giving viewers a window into skin pores, set textures, ghostly creatures, and costume fabrics. “You could spend hours going over this Blu-ray frame by frame, and still miss some of these details.” “Crimson Peak‘s digital photography pushes a little flat, but it beautifully […]

The producers of a new SoHo comedy/drama considered having the killer don a Donald Trump mask but thought it would be too hard to pull off legally. The Amazon-commissioned Mad Dogs, which is a US re-make of the British series, will premiere February 1 on SoHo and screen 9.30 Mondays. In the original, the killer wore a […]

The latest season of Girls is being teamed with a new comedy starring Kiwi Melanie Lynskey as part of a two-hour Thursday night comedy block on SoHo. People magazine called season four of Girls “an absolute delight, and possibly even better than the landmark first season” while Entertainment Weekly said “this season has astute things […]

SoHo hopes to get more bang for its comedy buck next year with the the launch of a two-hour laughfest block with a Kiwi connection on Thursdays. It has teamed the latest seasons of Girls, Looking and Getting On with newcomer Togetherness (above). Togetherness stars Melanie Lynsey (Heavenly Creatures, Two and a Half Men) as one of four […]