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SoHo Highlight: Boardwalk Empire (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) At a birthday party for Mayor Bader, Nucky’s attorney has a legal brainstorm that could turn the tide in Nuck’s election-rigging case; Jimmy and Mickey head to Philadelphia to solve a local liquor surplus; Nucky strikes an unlikely deal to get booze into Atlantic City; and Gillian recalls [...]

SoHo Highight: Boardwalk Empire (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Generation Kill director Susanna White makes her Boardwalk debut with episode three of season two. Said The AV Club in its B+ appraisal: “This week’s Boardwalk Empire ostensibly follows three big plots — Van Alden’s weird relationship with Lucy Danziger, Margaret’s search for her relatives, and Nucky’s political standoff with The Commodore — but I’d say only [...]

SoHo Highlight: Boardwalk Empire (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) US critics toasted the return of this top-shelf Prohibition drama even more lavishly than they did the original. “It’s essential viewing,” gushed The Hollywood Reporter. “All of the promise of last season looks to be realised with impressively deft storytelling, beautiful cinematography and impeccable acting.” Concurred the Boston Globe: “With [...]

If you haven’t invested in a My Sky + by now, don’t delay if you want to maximise the value of Sky’s new premium drama channel, SoHo. The satcaster has confirmed more of the HD channel’s sensational November schedule on the eve of updating subscriber numbers at its annual general meeting on Friday. New to [...]

Among the signature HBO series that won’t ride again on Sky’s new SoHo channel is Deadwood. When the HBO-style channel launches on October 31, it will leaven the latest seasons of series like Boardwalk Empire, Weeds and Dexter with what SoHo’s snazzy showreel (Sky, Channel 10) dubs “iconic classics”. These range from The Sopranos and [...]

On the eve of the 2011 Emmy Awards broadcast, entries have closed for the 2011 Aotearoa Film & Television Awards. Organisers say the 660 entries are “well above” 2010’s and will announce finalists in each of the 61 categories on October 13. The AFTA Gala Awards will be held on November 12 and, for the [...]

New Zealand at last looks set to get its HD equivalent of BSkyB’s Sky Atlantic and Foxtel’s Showcase – which is great news for those bewildered by the likes of HBO’s Game of Thrones and Treme not having been picked up here for free-to-air broadcast. Just this week Will Harvie, the editor of The Press’s TV [...]

Mad Men fans impatient for its resumption on Prime can only look with envy towards the UK, where Sky TV is poised to launch an HD channel dedicated to outstanding US cable dramas. Sky Atlantic HD will go live on February 1 and showcase premium US drama from the likes of HBO and Lionsgate, everything [...]

Sky TV will re-run all 12 episodes of the HBO gangster sensation, Boardwalk Empire, back-to-back in HD on Saturday. They will air from 12.15pm on Sky Movies Greats on the eve of Sky’s free-to-air channel, Prime, picking up the series for 9.35pm Tuesday instalments from January 11. The 12-hour marathon also precedes Sky’s live coverage [...]

Paying a premium for Sky’s paltry HD service will seem worth it this month with the launch of Boardwalk Empire. I’ve only seen the first episode, and merely in SD on a screener DVD. But I’m in no doubt as to how glorious the Martin Scorsese-directed premiere will look in HD come Saturday (Sky Movies, [...]