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SoHo will screen the eighth and final season of Dexter only hours after its US broadcast but True Blood again will air first on Prime. Sky’s premium HD drama channel has just announced its July highlights, which are headed by Dexter, and seasons two of Magic City and The Newsroom. But there’s no sign of True [...]

Monday’s launch of Sky’s newest channel, Jones!, may pave the way for UK TV’s conversion to HD. Jones! will largely showcase content from the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s that’s already aired extensively not only on free-to-air but also Sky’s UK TV, Comedy Central and The Box channels. There’s a handful of series that stand out [...]

Sky is poised to launch an app that would let subscribers view their favourite channels on a smartphone or tablet – but will this hi-tech be at the expense of more hi-def? This week it emailed respondents to an earlier focus group survey a final batch of questions eliciting their interest in such a service. [...]

SoHo’s scheduling of Justified means it won’t catch up with US screenings of the modern-day western until at least a year from now. Season one of Justified will replace The Wire on Tuesdays at 9.30 from June 25, when it and season two, which already have aired in SD on TV One, should have been boxed-set as a [...]

While premium British dramas like Top of the Lake and Parade’s End are paraded out only in SD on UK TV, SoHo has picked up a couple for next month that should be a must-see in HD. Of the two, Black Mirror looks the most daring. A three-part, satirical take on screen technology, it’s from [...]

Sky’s squandered another opportunity to improve its HD service by rebranding its MGM channel to offer more vintage classics – but only in SD. MGM will relaunch as Sky Movies Classics on June 1. Hopefully, the programming will be more imaginative than the new ID, which opens up the channel to vintage and modern classics [...]

Sequels to the Alien, Titans and Jason Bourne movies headline June’s coming attractions on Sky Movies but all are dwarfed by the first instalment of the latest fantasy franchise, The Hunger Games. The Jennifer Lawrence crowdpleaser will premiere on June 9, after Wrath of the Titans (June 2) and ahead of Prometheus (June 16) and [...]

The next season of Dexter, which SoHo will debut in July, will be the last. It goes to air June 30 in the US, several months earlier than normal, and will be preceded by season seven’s release on Blu-ray. But whereas fans probably will see season eight within days of the US, there will be [...]

The downside of SoHo screening Game of Thrones only hours after HBO is NZ fans are subject to the same interruptions as those in the US. Because the medieval fantasy is going “on hiatus” for one week next month, Sky will replace it with a documentary about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. SoHo bills [...]

New seasons of Mad Men and Veep make it a Very Important Programmes week on SoHo. After a couple of months of filler programming, the premium drama channel has regained its original promise, with must-see fare like season three of Game of Thrones, British thriller Good Cop, an episode of Showrunners (8.00 Tuesday) about Todd [...]