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Sky’s just announced another half-hearted HD initiative that will satisfy only those who want to ring-fence children’s movies from adults’. Starting with the next school holiday break, Sky will launch a “pop up” family movies channel that will occupy the Channel 35 slot while the kids aren’t going to school (September 28-October 13). You could […]

Monday’s “Red Wedding Massacre” on Game of Thrones was made more appalling by SoHo’s scant disregard for its subscribers. The most dramatic event in this season of the premium drama channel’s flagship series was sullied by Sky promoting other attractions during the bloody sequence that lay waste to key characters of the past three seasons. […]

A year after the launch of SoHo, Travis Dunbar, Sky’s director of entertainment, reflects on the premium HD drama channel’s successes, strategies and significance: As SoHo marks its first anniversary, which shows have proved (i) most popular and (ii) least popular? Overall, drama has performed better than the lighter, more comedic series on SoHo. Perhaps predictably, HBO’s […]

How many more Emmy Awards does The Daily Show With Jon Stewart have to win before it’s picked up for broadcast here? On Monday it won its tenth consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series, the longest streak in Emmy history, and its eighth Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series. Yet its continuing neglect here, to […]

“Waiting sucks” was the promotional line Prime TV used with the media to tease the return of True Blood. And while it can now be revealed that season five will premiere here on June 21, just 11 days after its US launch, don’t expect to see the vampire hit in HD until closer to Halloween. […]