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One of the best reasons to subscribe to SoHo starts 8.30 tonight on Sky’s premium HD drama channel: season five of Breaking Bad. After years of lagging behind the US, NZ fans of this Emmy-winning sensation about a chemistry teacher who becomes a P dealer are poised to catch up. When season five ends, SoHo [...]

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 [...]

Despite tasty reviews and strong sales internationally, TV’s Silence of the Lambs spin-off, Hannibal, has yet to land a NZ broadcaster. It went to air in the US on Thursday, where the ratings were “soft” – the premiere finished third in the 10pm hour — but an improvement on what NBC had previously screened in the [...]

Last night’s Game of Thrones season premiere and tomorrow night’s Walking Dead season finale (above) scored record ratings in the US. If you missed Game of Thrones’ return, SoHo will repeat episode one tomorrow at 6.30am, 11.30am and 4.45pm, and Sunday at 9.30pm. Sky also is offering a free catch-up screening for all domestic subscribers [...]

Yahoo! Hatfields & McCoys and Justified at last have landed a NZ broadcaster. Both HD dramas are among the series Sky’s SoHo has secured through a new deal with Sony Television. It also includes Breaking Bad, season five of which will screen next month just ahead of the final eight episodes going to air in [...]

The unjust vagaries of Blu-ray distribution are highlighted with this week’s release of two key TV series: Justified and The Fades. Season two of Justified is being sold on Blu-ray exclusively through JB Hi-Fi while series one of The Fades, which is out on Blu-ray in the UK and the US, is DVD-only. “Continuing with [...]

Tonight’s belated season-three premiere of Breaking Bad (Four, 10.30) isn’t in HD — but the series will be released here shortly on Blu-ray. And the good news doesn’t end there for fans of premium cable drama that winds up late-night and in SD on free-to-air TV: both season one of Justified and the fourth and final season [...]

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 [...]

On the eve of Sky TV unveiling its plans for two new HD channels, viewer interest in the possibility of one being an HBO-style channel is growing. It’s obvious that viewer frustration with free-to-air networks shunning, dumping or delaying premium drama is biting deep. This is reflected in comments left not only on this site [...]

Sexy assassin drama Nikita will be the biggest casualty of TV2’s Friday night revamp. After weeks of declining ratings, the network is dumping the 7.30pm comedy hour for a Friday Movie season, opening with The Water Horse (but not in HD), and rescheduling The Vampire Diaries to post-9.30pm. Nikita is being eliminated but the rest [...]