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Trekkies and True Blood fans will be over the (full) moon about this week’s TV-on-Blu-ray premieres. To coincide with Star Trek Into Darkness’ box office run — it grossed the third highest opening week of the year here – Paramount is releasing three enterprising collections. They range from Star Trek Stardate Collection: I – X, a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

At last the wait is over for fans of True Blood who resisted tuning into its SD season on Prime. On Saturday and Sunday, from midday-6pm, SoHo will screen all 12 episodes of season five back-to-back, in HD, as a box set weekend. This is the first time SoHo has run out a first-run, premium [...]

Sky has announced the latest season of True Blood will premiere in HD on SoHo 10 days after its SD run ends on Prime. “Catch the brand new season of True Blood, fresh from its HBO airing, uncut and in high definition,” reads the press release. Peculiarly, however, the first-run episodes will air as a [...]

This week HBO renewed rookie drama The Newsroom after just one episode — and only hours ahead of the second tanking in the ratings. The premiere screens Sunday July 18 on SoHo (Sky 10, 8.30) and is being previewed, in HD, on Sky’s on-demand service from Sunday. (The series will air 8.30 Mondays from August 13.) [...]

The TV insider comedy, Episodes, may not be around for many more episodes after Thursday’s debut bombed on TV One. It averaged only 1.7%-4.0% of the major demographics, and while it was most popular with TV One’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, it still drew only half the viewership of its dire lead-in, Mrs Brown’s Boys. [...]

Yes, it’s a rhetorical question — we all know why season five of True Blood, which starts tonight, can’t be viewed in HD. That’s because, despite being an HBO signature series, it’s airing on Prime ahead of SoHo. And Prime is the last of the network hold-outs when it comes to converting to HD, despite [...]

“Waiting sucks” was the promotional line Prime TV used with the media to tease the return of True Blood. And while it can now be revealed that season five will premiere here on June 21, just 11 days after its US launch, don’t expect to see the vampire hit in HD until closer to Halloween. [...]

True Blood: The Complete Fourth Season lands on Blu-ray “superbly rendered and vastly superior to the series’ 1080i broadcasts in every way”. That was an American reviewer’s thoughts on the Blu-ray-versus-the HD broadcast, so imagine how much better season four will look to NZ fans after its shabby SD trnasmission on Prime. “Like always, HBO has [...]