The Hour

There might be no greater way to get your movie, album, book or show to be seen than to get it on the Entertainment Weekly Must List. Once that happens there is a good chance that a significant amount of people will at least give you a chance.

Yesterday after seeing an endorsement of the show The Hour, which airs on BBC America my wife and I gave it a look. The show centers on 1956 England and specifically on a male and female member of a Newsreel production company hoping to land on the staff of a newsmagazine start up called The Hour.

Comapred in reviews to Mad Men one can see the connection. The accents are a bit hard to follow at times and this show is clearly more political than Mad Men but I found it quite interesting. There is a love triangle brewing, pretty people and spies too.

This show is part of what BBC sells as Dramaville, a slot on Wednesday nights at 10 pm where a series might last for six to eight weeks. I have read that the BBC after the completion of The Hour on The BBC has stated there will be another round of episodes filmed. We also have been told of the three series to follow The Hour which will take Dramaville to the end of the year.

An interesting way to watch a show, none of the time slot foolishness, repeats, and shows on hiatus that we have come to expect here in America. This often sabatoges shows here, Men of a Certain Age being a prime example.

We will be watching the rest of the show.