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"Set in 1950's Britain and follows the lives of three characters who are tasked to set up a new weekly investigative news program, The Hour. The drama plots the personal lives, professional interplay and jealous ambition between aspiring but renegade journalist Freddie Lyon (Ben Whishaw), the beautiful ambitious young producer Bel Rowley (Romola Garai) with whom he is in love, and his handsome rival Hector Madden (Dominic West), the face and lead anchorman of this rising television news team."

Premieres on August 17th at 10PM on BBC America, it's really more of a hybrid of Rubicon, Mad Men and Good Night and Good Luck. The pilot is very strong with compelling performances, sumptuous production design and a thriller hook that makes the pacing of Mad Men seem even more glacial.

7/28/2011 2:36:12 AM

hey. it's the dude from the wire

7/28/2011 7:55:33 AM

Mmmmm sumptuous.

[Edited on July 28, 2011 at 8:22 AM. Reason : dur]

7/28/2011 8:21:23 AM

Pantsuit, Combat Boots, Hot Peggy, McNulty, Schnoz, Stache, Midget Donald Rumsfeld

7/28/2011 8:27:50 AM

Dominic West's natural accent sounds much cooler than his Americanized one anyway

7/28/2011 9:31:49 AM

I <3 Romola Garai

7/28/2011 10:16:05 AM

i love midget donald rumsfeld!

7/28/2011 11:52:57 AM

Quote :

"Premieres on August 17th at 10PM on BBC America, it's really more of a hybrid of Rubicon, Mad Men and Good Night and Good Luck. The pilot is very strong with compelling performances, sumptuous production design and a thriller hook that makes the pacing of Mad Men seem even more glacial."

so you've seen the pilot?

7/28/2011 4:55:53 PM

yeah, it's already airing in the UK.

7/28/2011 5:00:25 PM

y'all should check out the premiere tonight, it's really good.

8/17/2011 1:55:11 PM

Very cool. Thanks for the heads up!

8/17/2011 2:09:20 PM

set it to record this past weekend

very optimistic

8/17/2011 2:17:18 PM

SPOT ON

8/17/2011 2:34:42 PM

Excellent bump. Series recording set.

8/17/2011 3:02:21 PM

Just watched the first episode.

I dig it a lot.

Will definitely be watching more.

8/22/2011 9:05:47 PM

I'm digging this show a lot.

9/8/2011 12:05:11 AM

Okay you dig it. But how much? A lot?

9/8/2011 8:06:08 AM

The finale is Also Romola Garai is sexy as fuck.

[Edited on September 8, 2011 at 12:24 PM. Reason : .]

9/8/2011 12:18:38 PM

Oona Chaplin is pretty damn hawt

9/8/2011 12:38:47 PM

^^ I had been thinking that revelation would be awesome to myself a few episodes in...and then it happened and it was

The second series needs to bring it's A game

10/26/2011 7:19:17 PM

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"When the first season of "The Hour" wrapped up on BBC America back in September, I noted that the BBC had already commissioned a sequel from writer Abi Morgan, but that there was no guarantee the new series would air in America. Now there is, as BBC America has stepped up as co-producer of "The Hour" season 2, to debut sometime next year. Most of the original cast - including Romola Garai, Dominic West and Ben Whishaw - will return to the story of a '50s BBC newsmagazine show, and the ensemble is getting one hell of an addition in Peter Capaldi as the new Head of News. Capaldi has been doing fantastic work all over the place the last few years, including being the civil servant villain in "Torchwood: Children of Earth," but especially in his role as profane, vicious political operative Malcolm Tucker in the UK comedy series "The Thick of It" and its film spin-off "In the Loop." Other new castmembers include Hannah Tointon from "The In-Betweeners" as a new lady friend of West's dashing anchorman Hector Madden, and Tom Burke as a producer who becomes a rival for Garai's Bel Rowley. The sequel will take place in 1957, and as Morgan told me back in the summer, it won't have the espionage component that drove so many of the first season's stories, but that I and others ultimately felt was a distraction. All of this sounds very, very promising."

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/the-hour-season-2-will-be-coming-to-bbc-america

12/7/2011 12:38:17 PM

I just saw a commercial for it on BBC America.

It featured the quote "This is not the British Mad Men" from a critic.

11/20/2012 8:19:21 PM

More like the British Anchorman

11/20/2012 8:26:44 PM

I like the new girl:


Also the fascist subplot is promising.

11/20/2012 9:20:41 PM

I need to watch the second season - is it still as good as the first? I've seen a bit of the first episode, but didn't have time to finish it.

1/15/2013 11:23:18 AM

^I would say it's pretty much on par with the first season. Instead of the spy storyline from season 1 there's a storyline about increasing crime and vice in London which felt more grounded and realistic.

1/15/2013 2:55:35 PM

sweet

1/15/2013 10:07:50 PM