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The Hour (BBC / BBC America) - anyone else watching it? Legolas Send a noteboard - 19/08/2011 09:23:22 PM
It's a rather good mini-series about three journalists in a groundbreaking BBC news show in 1956 - in the middle of the Suez Crisis and the Soviet invasion of Hungary. On the BBC, next week will be the sixth and final episode, but BBC America started broadcasting it this week, as it turns out.

I'll just link to the NYT's review for anyone who's not watching yet but thinks it might be worth checking out (while noting in passing that calling Romola Garai "alluringly but not conventionally pretty" is quite the understatement... but then, there's no accounting for tastes and all that).
"The Hour" review in the NYTimes
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The Hour (BBC / BBC America) - anyone else watching it? - 19/08/2011 09:23:22 PM 1058 Views
Yes. - 19/08/2011 09:56:27 PM 676 Views
Right, watched it all now. It's quite good. *spoiler* - 30/08/2011 10:07:35 PM 680 Views
Yes. - 19/08/2011 11:33:34 PM 684 Views
I like Lix too - best I've ever seen Chancellor. (spoilers, I guess). - 19/08/2011 11:52:32 PM 745 Views
Re: I like Lix too - best I've ever seen Chancellor. (spoilers, I guess). - 20/08/2011 12:31:49 AM 822 Views
Oh, and also (still perhaps spoilers) - 20/08/2011 12:40:03 AM 668 Views
Especially considering - 30/08/2011 10:12:16 PM 674 Views
I don't know about that. - 30/08/2011 10:33:45 PM 770 Views
Haven't mananged to see it yet, though I intend to watch it. - 20/08/2011 12:24:29 AM 622 Views
I fully intend to - 20/08/2011 03:27:50 PM 675 Views
And if you liked The Hour, you should try an see Glorious 39 that was on recently - 20/08/2011 04:14:52 PM 702 Views
That's the new Steven Poliakoff one, right? - 20/08/2011 05:55:58 PM 685 Views
If you are implying that I am posting about The Hour just because of Romola Garai... - 20/08/2011 06:53:40 PM 793 Views
I wasn't - 21/08/2011 07:31:22 PM 759 Views
Really liked that! - 20/08/2011 06:58:04 PM 874 Views
Now that's what I call going out with a bang... I did not expect the final episode to be this good. - 23/08/2011 10:41:14 PM 686 Views
I liked it (spoilers) - 23/08/2011 11:01:36 PM 642 Views
Re: I liked it (spoilers) - 23/08/2011 11:16:03 PM 659 Views
Re: I liked it (spoilers) - 23/08/2011 11:36:01 PM 754 Views
Having now seen it, I liked it quite a bit - 31/08/2011 08:41:46 PM 742 Views
How far off? *NM* - 31/08/2011 10:25:13 PM 304 Views
Rather far - 01/09/2011 06:32:06 AM 643 Views

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