The Hour
2011
📺 2 Seasons
🎬 12 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 60 min/episode
DramaWar & PoliticsCrime
A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
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Seasons
Season 1
Bel and Freddie, who work as BBC reporters, are given the chance to escape from their boring jobs to run a topical weekly show instead. With only one of them being able to be the producer, and with Bel in pole position for the job, Freddie is not happy. After a debutante and a childhood friend end up asking him for help in investigating a murder, he ends up realising that the only way he can investigate it is to join the staff of The Hour.
Season 2
With Freddie gone, Bel struggles to keep The Hour afloat as the new Head of News arrives.
Cast
Crew
Producer
Jane Featherstone, Noelle Morris, Ruth Kenley-Letts
Network
BBC Two, BBC America
Production
BBC, Kudos
Keywords
journalistjournalismcold warreporterperiod dramahistoricalbritish historyinvestigative journalism1950smodern history