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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 [...]

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 TV doesn’t release ratings figures for channels like SoHo but it confirms this week’s third-season Game of Thrones premiere posted a big jump in viewership. “There was an almost 20 per cent increase in average viewership for Monday night’s season premiere compared with the season two premiere last year,” entertainment programming boss Travis Dunbar [...]

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 [...]

Tonight’s HD premiere of Good Cop (SoHo, 8.30) contains one scene of shocking violence that British media reported was “particularly startling” to see on BBC One. Creator Stephen Butchard (Five Daughters) told The Daily Telegraph it pushes the boundaries but  is necessary. “It’s all of the things that violence on screen shouldn’t be – it’s gratuitous. [...]

They won’t match Game of Thrones’ lightning-fast turnaround but the latest seasons of Veep and Mad Men also are being fast-tracked to air on SoHo. The Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy about a US vice-president will start its second season on April 18 and Mad Men its sixth season on April 14. SoHo’s Veep broadcasts will lag [...]

Just when you thought SoHo was losing its mojo, with also-rans like Banshee, Hunted and Durham County, Sky has announced its premium HD drama channel will air season three of Game of Thrones within three-and-a-half hours of its HBO broadcast. It will screen 8.30 Mondays from April 1, a month after season two’s release on [...]

A day after SoHo belatedly resumed The Hour, the BBC has axed the news drama. While the first series enjoyed a strong UK run, viewership halved during the second. Broadcast magazine reports the producers had intended to produce three series. “Writer Abi Morgan said she hoped to introduce new characters if the show got a [...]

The sequel to Ken Follet’s The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, will be released on Blu-ray in March. The miniseries was first seen here in HD on SoHo, which was one of the first channels in the world to screen it. It also was one of the last channels to air Pillars, which [...]