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SoHo will debut HBO’s anticipated crime drama, True Detective, within two days of its US launch. As predicted, the series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as Louisiana homicide cops who re-open a serial killer case is among January’s highlights, along with new seasons of Banshee, Top Boy, Girls and Treme. But whereas I thought […]

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 […]

SoHo Highlight: Top Boy (Sky 10, 8.30) Season finale: Dushane’s loyalty to his accomplice and best friend, Sully, is tested; Heather goes into labour; Lisa, distraught and desperate, is left to rely on Leon to prevent certain tragedy. The Independent called part four “so tense that there were times when it was hard to watch. Ronan Bennett’s […]

SoHo Highlight: Top Boy (Sky 10, 8.30) In part three of four about drug trafficking on an East London housing estate, time is running out for Dushane and Sully to find Kamale and repay their debt to Raikes, Ra’Nell turns to Leon to help Gem, and Heather dreams of her new life. As The Arts Desk observed: […]

SoHo Highlight: Top Boy (Sky 10, 8.30) In part two of four, Dushane and Sully find themselves in debt to Raikes and under increasing pressure to retrieve their stash from Kamale, Dushane’s ambitions begin to spill into the lives of his family, and Lisa shows signs of improvement. How realistic is this series about a drug-riddled housing estate? […]

SoHo Highlight: Top Boy (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) In part one of four about life on a drug-ridden East London housing estate, a 13-year-old finds he has to “step up and be a man” when his mother is hospitalised after a breakdown. “It feels like this is a drama that isn’t going to end well for anyone,” The […]

Next month SoHo will premiere in HD the British drama series Top Boy and Five Days 2. Top Boy is a Channel 4 thriller about urban drug and cast culture starring new and old faces, including Ashley Walters (Get Rich or Die Tryin’), musician Kane ‘Kano’ Robinson, Sharon Duncan Brewster (Bad Girls), Geoff Bell (War […]