The Eleventh Hour (2002)

Genre

drama

Country

Canada

Length

3 seasons, 39 episodes

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Reporters and producers at a TV news magazine clash over a new executive producer who pushes for tabloid style stories to boost ratings. The team also races to uncover and report their weekly stories.

urgentconflict-drivenjournalistictensecharacter-focusedworkplace dramaethicalserious

What happens

The Eleventh Hour is a Canadian television drama series which aired weekly on CTV from 2002 to 2005. The show revolves around the reporters and producers at a fictional television news magazine series, The Eleventh Hour. Unhappy with the newsmagazine's shrinking audience, the network has brought in a new executive producer, Kennedy Marsh, to reorient the show in a more ratings-driven tabloid journalism direction. The tension between the ratings imperative and the more traditional journalistic ethics of the show's senior staff is the primary conflict that drives the show, but storylines also include the team's efforts to get the stories that will make it to air each week. The Eleventh Hour was produced by Alliance Atlantis, Canada's largest film and television production house. It aired in the United States on Sleuth, under the title Bury the Lead, to distinguish it from a CBS series with a similar name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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