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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
Premiered on BBC Two on 19 July 2011 and on BBC America in August. Following the airing of the final episode of the first series, it was announced that a second series had been commissioned.
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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
* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: From 1x04: Freddie and Bel's conversation in the bar about the future:
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'''Freddie:''' Ecstatic. We wouldn't want to be anywhere else...with anyone else. }}
* [[Career Versus Man]]: Bel isn't willing to give up her career for marriage or become [[The Mistress]] for Hector.
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* [[Executive Meddling]]: in-universe; Angus is firmly of the belief that [[The Political Officer|the BBC should take a pro-government line]]. Freddie and Bel think the new show should break from this tradition and provide objective journalism.
* [[The Fifties]]: 1956, to be precise.
* [[Going for
* [[Gorgeous Period Dress]]: It's set in [[The Fifties]]. Commence swooning.
* [[Government Conspiracy]]
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* [[Pull the Thread]]
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Clarence, in contrast to Angus, fights his subordinates' corners on occasion.
* [[Running Time in
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Freddie and Hector both have their share of these.
* [[Show Within a Show]]: a pioneer of the ''[[Prime Time News]]'' genre
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