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Sky Box Sets will premiere season four of Queen of the South on November 30, after three days of back-to-back box sets of the first three seasons, and S6 of Younger on November 18.  Another channel newcomer will be the baffling SoHo mystery, The City and the City. SBS also will strip S1-5 of The Wire […]

   For the first time, the Emmy Awards will screen here in HD. Vibe, which was upgraded to HD two months ago, will air the ceremony live on September 23. Coverage will start from midday and there will be a highlights package at 8.30. E! will offer SD coverage from 8.30am, with Countdown to the […]

The casts of Veep and The Big Bang Theory will make Prime’s The Late Show With Stephen Colbert worth sitting up for over the next two weeks. Both series are are into their final seasons on SoHo2 and TVNZ 2 respectively. Julia Louis-Dreyfus & co will take over Colbert’s set on Friday while TBBT crew […]

Veep | SoHo2, 7.30 Wednesday ☆☆☆☆ “It was bound to happen. After avoiding, or pretending to exist in a different reality than, the funhouse mirror of horror that is the Trump presidency, Veep has decided to tackle it. Or, more precisely, to tackle and in the process pummel to the ground the overwhelming awfulness of all politics […]

Aside from Game of Thrones’ swansong, SoHo2 has a more vibrant line-up of premieres in April than its sister channel. Screening in order of their debuts will be: Veep: Season Seven (7.30 Wednesdays from April 3) The critically acclaimed series returns for its final season. Julia Louis-Dreyfus  leads an ensemble cast as Selina Meyer, the former president, who struggles […]

Succession | SoHo, 8.30 Wednesday ➢ “If Succession was cut down to a half-hour comedy, it would be an apt successor to HBO’s vicious, outgoing political satire, Veep. It’s got the same satiric spirit and vulgar insults, this time applied to Manhattan’s business district, yet the added minutes bring context for its devilish characters. Jesse Armstrong’s […]

   Veep and Animal Kingdom join the Sky Box Sets rotation next month, ahead of their season premieres on SoHo. Also new to the channel are the second and final season of The Arrangement, season one of Netflix thriller Marcella, season three of Channel Zero and the historical drama starring Billions’ Paul Giamatti, John Adams. Screening […]

  Sky has tied up HBO content in this market with a new multi-year deal that puts streaming upstarts on notice and will include developing an HBO Download to Go app. The pact cements Sky’s entrenched partnership with HBO, which  began with the launch of the SoHo channel in 2011, and nixes prospects of HBO […]

Veep (SoHo, 9.00 Thursday) “Like The Thick of It before it, Veep is a series that deeply understands the comic possibilities in the hollow and venal world of politics. No matter the course it would have taken, the funny would have still been there. But Veep still would have suffered trying to be a show about an incompetent president in our […]

About time — SoHo at last will air Real Time With Bill Maher. The politically incorrect talk show’s 15th season will screen 11.00 Mondays on Sky’s premium drama channel from April 17 (it will start with the US April 7 episode because the show’s on hiatus on April 14). For years SoHo has opted not to […]