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'''''The Hour''''' is a 2011 [[BBC]] drama series, written by Abi Morgan and starring Ben Whishaw, Dominic West and Romola Garai. The series centres on a new current affairs show being launched by the BBC in June 1956, at the time of the Suez Crisis (a [[Period Piece|period setting]] which has led to comparisons with ''[[Mad Men]]''). Bel Rowley (Romola Garai) is the producer of the [[Show Within a Show]]; her friend Freddie Lyon (Ben Whishaw) loses the presenter interview to well-spoken Eton boy Hector Madden (Dominic West) but she persuades him to stay on as a researcher. Meanwhile Freddie is suspicious about the [[Never Suicide|reported suicide]] of an old friend, and when he starts to notice shadowy men following him around, it only confirms his suspicions.
The most common criticism made of the show was of thematic inconsistency; the two main threads of let's-run-a-groundbreaking-TV-show and let's-investigate-a-government-conspiracy had little to do with each other, and while both interesting in their own right sometimes gave the show a disjointed [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World|Wake Up, Go To Work, Save The World]] feel. One review called it "''[[Drop the Dead Donkey]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[Spooks]]''".
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* [[Affectionate Nickname]]: Freddie and Bel sometimes call each other [[James Bond|James]] and [[Sassy Secretary|Moneypenny]]. As you would imagine, this does nothing to defuse the [[UST]].
* [[Amateur Sleuth]]: Freddie, in his spare time
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