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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 1092 Views
Yes. - 19/08/2011 09:56:27 PM 721 Views
Right, watched it all now. It's quite good. *spoiler* - 30/08/2011 10:07:35 PM 713 Views
Yes. - 19/08/2011 11:33:34 PM 719 Views
I like Lix too - best I've ever seen Chancellor. (spoilers, I guess). - 19/08/2011 11:52:32 PM 781 Views
Re: I like Lix too - best I've ever seen Chancellor. (spoilers, I guess). - 20/08/2011 12:31:49 AM 851 Views
Oh, and also (still perhaps spoilers) - 20/08/2011 12:40:03 AM 701 Views
Especially considering - 30/08/2011 10:12:16 PM 715 Views
I don't know about that. - 30/08/2011 10:33:45 PM 807 Views
Haven't mananged to see it yet, though I intend to watch it. - 20/08/2011 12:24:29 AM 654 Views
I fully intend to - 20/08/2011 03:27:50 PM 712 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 737 Views
That's the new Steven Poliakoff one, right? - 20/08/2011 05:55:58 PM 720 Views
If you are implying that I am posting about The Hour just because of Romola Garai... - 20/08/2011 06:53:40 PM 826 Views
I wasn't - 21/08/2011 07:31:22 PM 792 Views
Really liked that! - 20/08/2011 06:58:04 PM 911 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 722 Views
I liked it (spoilers) - 23/08/2011 11:01:36 PM 672 Views
Re: I liked it (spoilers) - 23/08/2011 11:16:03 PM 690 Views
Re: I liked it (spoilers) - 23/08/2011 11:36:01 PM 787 Views
Having now seen it, I liked it quite a bit - 31/08/2011 08:41:46 PM 771 Views
How far off? *NM* - 31/08/2011 10:25:13 PM 317 Views
Rather far - 01/09/2011 06:32:06 AM 678 Views

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