The Hour (2011 TV series)
2011–2012 British drama series that aired on BBC / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Hour is a British television drama series broadcast on BBC. The series was centred on a then-new current-affairs show being launched by the BBC in June 1956, at the time of the Hungarian Revolution and Suez Crisis. It stars Ben Whishaw, Dominic West, and Romola Garai, with a supporting cast including Tim Pigott-Smith, Juliet Stevenson, Burn Gorman, Anton Lesser, Anna Chancellor, Julian Rhind-Tutt, and Oona Chaplin. It was written by Abi Morgan (also one of the executive producers, alongside Jane Featherstone and Derek Wax).
The Hour | |
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Genre | Period drama |
Created by | Abi Morgan |
Written by | Abi Morgan |
Starring | |
Composer | Daniel Giorgetti |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 12 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Jane Featherstone Derek Wax Abi Morgan Lucy Richer |
Producer | Ruth Kenley-Letts |
Editors | Gareth C. Scales Xavier Russell Nick Arthurs Paul Machliss |
Running time | 59 minutes |
Production company | Kudos Film and Television |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two, BBC Two HD |
Release | 19 July 2011 (2011-07-19) – 13 December 2012 (2012-12-13)[1] |
The series premiered on BBC Two and BBC Two HD on 19 July 2011 each Tuesday at 9 pm.[2][3] Each episode lasts 60 minutes, with Ruth Kenley-Letts as producer and Coky Giedroyc as lead director. It was commissioned by Janice Hadlow, Controller, BBC Two, and Ben Stephenson, Controller, BBC Drama Commissioning and produced by Kudos Film and Television. Hornsey Town Hall was used for much of the filming.
Following the airing of the final episode of the first series, it was announced that a second series had been commissioned, which was co-produced by American network BBC America.[4] It premiered on 14 November 2012 in the UK and on 28 November 2012 in the United States. On 12 February 2013, it was announced by the BBC that the series would not continue.[1]