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shapinglight:squee: Enjoyed that. The Hour is a new BBC six part series set at the BBC in the 50s, about an attempt to set up a new hard-hitting news program featuring proper journalism, at the time when most TV news was reverential stuff about the royal family and debutantes.
Slight spoilers within
There were also some murders and some spy stuff and - topically - a journalist paid a policeman for information.
Beautiful looking, and Owen from Torchwood was in it, along with Herrick from Being Human, and Anna Chancellor (Duckface in Four Weddings and a Funeral - best thing in the show in fact), and Dominic West from The Wire and Anton Lesser, and Juliet Stevenson. All very classy.
In fact, the only slight fly in the ointment is Romola Garai as the main female character. She doesn't convince me, I'm afraid - too modern.
Otherwise, loved it. There was even a murder in a tube station. Yay! (the tube station, that is, not the murder).
Slight spoilers within
There were also some murders and some spy stuff and - topically - a journalist paid a policeman for information.
Beautiful looking, and Owen from Torchwood was in it, along with Herrick from Being Human, and Anna Chancellor (Duckface in Four Weddings and a Funeral - best thing in the show in fact), and Dominic West from The Wire and Anton Lesser, and Juliet Stevenson. All very classy.
In fact, the only slight fly in the ointment is Romola Garai as the main female character. She doesn't convince me, I'm afraid - too modern.
Otherwise, loved it. There was even a murder in a tube station. Yay! (the tube station, that is, not the murder).