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SoHo will premiere the latest — and last — season of Weeds on July 21. It will take over Girls’ 8.30 Thursday slot and screen here three weeks behind Showtime in the US, which has just released a slew of smokin’ hot posters asking the question to which all fans want the answer after season […]

The Anne Hathaway romance, One Day, is the week’s only new Blu-ray release but overlooked from last week was season six of Weeds. “From a design standpoint, One Day is remarkable and, most of the time, the video quality shows it.” “While not the sharpest presentation around, the encode’s grainy, filmic faithfulness shouldn’t be undervalued and […]

Fans of the smokin’ comedy/drama Weeds at last can experience earlier seasons in HD. Following Wednesday’s season-seven finale, Sky’s SoHo channel will screen the series about a family that goes to pot from the first episode of the first season (starting February 6 in In Treatment’s 11.30pm weeknight slot). And Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will […]

SoHo Highlight: Weeds (Sky 10, 9.30, 5.1) Nancy faces difficult choices when the Botwins head for the airport, where Andy attempts to calm the nerves of Shane and Warren, while Silas considers staying behind with Lar. Season six segues into season seven, which jumps ahead three years with Nancy on parole in a New York halfway house, and Silas, Shane, […]

Soho Highlight: Weeds (Sky 10, 9.30, 5.1) Blog critics reckon episode five, Boomerang, “officially ended the slow slump the show has been in while the family was hiding from Esteban” and, some weak character moments notwithstanding, had “by far the most plot momentum of any episode this season”. It also boasts a startling, unsettling encounter between Nancy and brother-in-law Andy that provides […]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) Joey and Phoebe conspire to reunite Ross and Rachel, and set them up on the worst blind dates ever. ✫✫✫ Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) Lana is unconvinced by a change of heart; Jonathon gets his hopes up; Jill’s best laid plans end in disaster. ✫✫✫ Bigger Better Faster Stronger (TV3, 8.00, R) Can […]

Just when Justified fans thought TV One’s treatment of the modern western couldn’t get any worse, the network has jumped the gun on the running order of episodes. Last Wednesday it aired episode 12 instead of 11, which was a dreadful error given the series is building to an electrifying climax. TVNZ blames the out-of-sync […]

Season three of the blue-blood serial killer thriller, Dexter, will be released on DVD on Wednesday but not on Blu-ray. It precedes the April 11 premiere of season four on Sky’s The Box and, like Breaking Bad and Weeds, is another series that video distributors could capitalise on for its HD potential. The DVD-only release […]

A spate of top US TV dramas is soon to be released on Blu-ray but three of the best – Breaking Bad, Weeds and Nurse Jackie – won’t be among them. The latter appear to be getting a DVD-only release while season two of Breaking Bad won’t receive even that. A Sony Pictures Home Entertainment […]