David Farnor | On 26, Mar 2018

Easter is upon us, which means chocolate and Bank Holidays – and with the wet, windy weather still hitting the UK, what better time than to curl up on the sofa all afternoon and catch up with some of the best shows on Sky Box Sets?

Sky’s on-demand TV catalogue is bidding farewell to The Walking Dead’s first seven seasons, and the first half of Season 8, not to mention the third run of the gripping Italian gangster drama Gomorrah, and addictive Making a Murderer-style documentary The Jinx.

Sky Cinema, meanwhile, is waving goodbye to some gargantuan blockbusters, including Captain America: Civil War (which is heading to Netflix UK), Batman V Superman, The Departed and – with Ready Player One hitting cinemas – Spielberg’s classic sci-fi Close Encounters of the Third Kid.

Not a Sky customer? You can get access to both Sky Box Sets and Sky Cinema through contract-free streaming service NOW, which costs £8.99 a month (for an Entertainment Membership, including Sky 1, Sky Atlantic, SYFY, FOX UK and more), or £9.99 a month for the whole Sky Cinema catalogue.

Whichever you subscribe to, this coming month is your last chance to stream the following:

 

TV

The Walking Dead: Season 1 to 8 (Part 1) – 27th March

Don’t miss your chance to catch up with AMC’s zombie smash hit, as the second half of Season 8 continues to air each Monday.

Cold Feet: Season 6 – 27th March

“Have you lost weight?” “No. Have you got more hair?” “No.” When ITV are bringing back the cast of a TV show 13 years after it ended, you know this reboot business has gotten out of control. But Season 6 of Cold Feet is as smashing as ever. Written once again by Mike Bullen, he catches up with Adam (James Nesbitt), Pete (Robert Bathurst), Jenny (Fay Ripley), David (John Thomson) and Karen (Hermione Norris) like they’ve never been away. Except, of course, they have – and those five seasons can be felt behind each gesture and glance.

False Flag: Season 1 – 28th March

This superb Israeli drama revolves around five ordinary Israeli citizens who discover one morning via the media that they are the principal suspects of the high-profile kidnapping of the Iranian minister of defence during his visit to Moscow.

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst – 3rd April

HBO’s six-part documentary, directed and produced by Andrew Jarecki and produced and shot by Marc Smerling, exposes long-buried information discovered during a seven-year investigation of a series of unsolved crimes, and the man at their centre: Robert Durst, scion of New York’s billionaire Durst family.

Long suspected in the 1982 disappearance of his young wife in New York, the 2000 murder of the key witness in the case in Beverly Hills, and the subsequent murder and dismemberment of a neighbour in Texas, Durst has consistently maintained his innocence.

If you liked Serial or Making a Murderer, you’ll love this.

True Detective: Season 2 – 3rd April

Underwhelming or underrated? However you felt about the second season of Nic Pizzolato’s crime anthology, starring Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn and Rachel McAdams, this is your chance to go back and reassess.

Gomorrah: Season 3 – 5th April

Sky’s Italian crime drama is as gritty, violent and gripping as ever.

 

Other TV shows leaving in March / April 2018:

27th March
The Adventurers Of Modern Art: Season 1
Harlots: Season 3
Talking Dead: Season 7 and 8
Upstart Crow: Season 1

28th March
Jordskott II: Season 2
Victoria: Season 1

28th March
Wheeler Dealers: Season 14

30th March
Blondie: Song by Song: Season 1
Brief Encounters: Season 1
Mythbusters: Season 11
Strike Back: Retribution: Season 6

31st March
Bottom: Season 1
Catfish: The TV Show: Season 6
Brideshead Revisited: Season 1
Dag: Season 1 to 3
Teen Mom OG: Season 5 and 6
Harlots: Season 1
Micawber: Season 1
Sensitive Skin: Season 1
Vera: Season 3

1st April
Citizen Khan: Season 3
Teachers: Season 1
Knowing Me, Knowing You… with Alan Partridge: Season 1
My Family: Season 1
The League of Gentlemen: Season 1
South Park: Season 11 and 12
Seraph of the End: SEason 1
The Chefs’ Line: Season 1

3rd April
American Ninja Warrior: Season 7
Day of Reckoning: Seaso n1
Active Shooter: America Under Fire: Season 1
Killjoys: Season 1 to 3

4th April
Bitchin’ Rides: Season 4
Outside Edge: Season 1 and 2

6th April
Beach Body SOS: Season 1
Ed Stafford: Into the Unknown: Season 1
NASA’s Unexplained Files: Season 1 to 3
Wheeler Dealers: Season 10

7th April
My Wonderful Life: Season 1
Inside The Five: Season 1

9th April
Harry Hill’s Tea-Time: Season 2
The Royle Family: Season 2
Houdini and Doyle: Season 1
My Uncle Silas: Season 1

10th April
Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Season 1

12th April
Are You the One?: Season 1 to 5
Geordie Shore: Season 16

13th April
Catfish: The TV Show: Season 7
Vic Reeves Big Night Out: Season 1

14th April
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders: Season 1 and 2
Britannia: Season 1
Killing Fields: Murder Isle: Season 2

17th April
How The Universe Works: Season 6
Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Season 3
Tokyo Ghoul: Season 2

18th April
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Season 3

19th April
Portrait Artist Of The Year: Season 4
Waiting for God: Season 2

 

Movies

Captain America: Civil War – 29th March

Marvel assembles more than just The Avengers with this Captain America sequel that brings together a wealth of plots with a surprising burst of humour, wit, action and emotion.

Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice – 31st March

Zack Snyder’s bold, overly intellectual piece of superhero filmmaking fails to reach its lofty ambitions.

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind – 31st March

Do do doo. Dum. Dummmm. Steven Spielberg made jaws drop with those five notes in a deceptively simple piece about mankind connecting with a higher power. Richard Dreyfus is scarily obsessed with the idea of extra terrestrials, even to the point of it shaping his mashed potato. But however disruptive his behaviour becomes, Close Encounters of the Third Kind’s power comes from the peaceful nature of their contact – a gently revolutionary notion that makes this a unique entry in the genre and, indeed, one of the greatest science fiction films of all time.

The Departed – 3rd April

Martin Scorsese’s thrilling, idiosyncratic take on Hong Kong action flick Infernal Affairs is proof that remakes can be better than the original.

Money Monster – 18th April

Jodie Foster directs this thriller, which sees an angry investor break into the studio of financial TV show and threaten the host live with a gun and a bomb. (George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Jack O’Connell star.)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot – 18th April

Tina Fey and Margot Robbie are on winning form in this comedy/drama about a news reporter who takes on a daring new assignment in Afghanistan.

 

Other titles leaving Sky Cinema and NOW in March / April 2018:

29th March
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy

30th March
5 to 7
All Roads Lead to Rome
Exposed (2016)
Frankenstein (2015)
Hacked
Kids in Love
McCanick
Mercury Plains
Mojave
Precious Cargo
Rise of the Footsoldier II
The Colony
The Culling
The Landlord

31st March
Arrowhead
Asian Connection
Bad Boys
Bad Boys II
Big Jake
Bravetown
Cabin Fever (2016)
Champion
Children Of A Lesser God
Clear And Present Danger
Clueless
Couples Retreat
Creepshow
Dead Again
Easy Come, Easy Go
Edward Scissorhands
Eurotrip
Gentlemen
Just Jim
Kingpin
Mean Girls 2
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Our Little Sister
Paris When It Sizzles
Patriot Games
Play Misty For Me
Reds
Rocky
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Rocky V
Samson And Delilah
Sands Of Iwo Jima
Scrooged
Sleepy Hollow
Snatch
Still the Water
Strategic Air Command
The Accused
The Black Orchid
The Challenger
The Country Girl
The Desperate Hours
The Fencer
The Wonders
Top Secret!
Turbulence
Up For Love
Villa Rides!
Wanted
We’re No Angels (1954)

1st April
The Lone Ranger

2nd April
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

3rd April
Wreck-It Ralph

7th April
Terminal Velocity

9th April
Runaway Bride

10th April
Summertime
The Insider

12th April
The Huntsman: Winter’s War

18th April
Alice Through The Looking Glass

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