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   Next month Sky Box Sets will screen the first two seasons of True Detective as a curtain-raiser to season three’s January 14 premiere on SoHo. Says Esquire of S3: “With Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali in the lead role, the first trailer for new season appears to deliver everything that made the first season such a […]

  Some of SoHo’s best and brightest series, including Boardwalk Empire, True Blood and Shameless, can be seen again from the beginning next month on Sky Box Sets, along with all five seasons of House of Lies (which originally aired on TV3 before switching to Four and then having a run on Lightbox). Also new […]

Here and Now | SoHo, 8.30 Monday ➢ “Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball returns to HBO with the new drama Here and Now. It’s a family saga whose gnarled emotions give way to a surprising metaphysical twist, and it advances everything that was so special about Six Feet Under. On that show, a family’s […]

As frustrating as it is to see series like Under the Dome suffer in SD on Prime, the good news is the channel’s fast-tracking of US shows ensures their prompt Blu-ray release here. So fast in fact that Dome’s second season lands here a week ahead of the US. Similarly, Lightbox’s streaming of Black Sails […]

SoHo will screen the latest seasons of Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex within a week of their US broadcasts. Last year three months elapsed between the former’s US and NZ premieres while a month separated the latter’s. Season two of Ray Donovan will screen here from July 16, three days after it goes to air […]

This year’s Oscar-winning best picture at last is liberated on Blu-ray. “12 Years a Slave receives a thoroughly impressive 1080p/AVC-encoded high definition video presentation in the movie’s original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.40:1 widescreen. “Irrespective of the brutality of the subject-matter and substance, the scenery is utterly exquisite, and [director Steve] McQueen delivers a frequently stunning-looking feature.” […]

Bates Motel will join a horror onslaught next month on SoHo that includes the final season of True Blood, the premiere of Penny Dreadful and the ongoing American Horror Story: Coven. The Psycho spin-off was destined for Four through MediaWorks’ deal with NBC Universal before the in-receivership broadcaster restructured its studio output deal. So while […]

SoHo will screen the seventh and final season of True Blood in HD ahead of its free-to-air SD premiere on Prime. Sky announced this long-overdue redress this morning after allowing the previous two seasons of the vampire drama to air first on Prime — even though SoHo HD subscribers pay an extra $20 a month […]

True Blood fans will rue SoHo’s scheduling of the latest season. After waiting months to see it in HD, they won’t even be able to binge on the 10 episodes as a weekend box set. That was the consolation prize SoHo offered fans last year after season five first aired, in SD, on Prime. Instead […]

SoHo at last has announced a premiere date for Ray Donovan. It will go to air here three months after its US debut, on September 29, in The Newsroom’s 8.30 Sunday slot. By then it will have finished its runs not only on Showtime in the US but also SoHo’s pay-TV equivalents in the UK […]