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TV2’s fantasy dramas Arrow and Once Upon a Time this week stumbled badly against TV3 crime dramas CSI and Sons of Anarchy. After trouncing CSI the previous week, Arrow came off second best with only 4.2% – 5.4% of the major demographics, a low for the season if not the series. CSI averaged 5.4% – […]

Here’s ripping good news ahead of Sherlock’s belated third-season premiere on Saturday: the BBC is reviving the axed Victorian crime drama Ripper Street. Both series, coincidentally, will be released on Blu-ray over the next few weeks: Ripper Street on March 12 and Sherlock on March 26. Ripper Street’s revival is a joint initiative between the […]

Troy: Sky Movies Greats, 8.30pm Saturday. The Achilles heel of this lavish historical epic is its clichéd human dimension. But its spectacle, action and CGI effects are sensational, particularly the screen’s biggest pyrotechnics bash since Atlanta was razed in Gone With the Wind. Like The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Troy used ingenious software that […]

The box office colossus that cemented Steven Spielberg’s career and redefined movie marketing, Jaws, will screen in HD for the first time next month on Sky Movies Greats, along with the period epics, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and Troy. The full line-up of HD premieres is: You Me and Dupree […]