There won’t be a third season of The Hour, the BBC Two TV series. The show aired on BBC America here in the States.
Created by Abi Morgan, The Hour is set in the late 1950′s and revolves around a BBC current affairs news show. The dramatic series stars Ben Whishaw, Dominic West, Romola Garai, Anton Lesser, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Joshua McGuire, Lisa Greenwood, Anna Chancellor, Kelly-Jayne Adams. Burn Gorman, Juliet Stevenson, Tim Pigott-Smith, Andrew Scott and Oona Chaplin.
While The Hour was a success in its first season, viewership dropped significantly in season two. There are just 12 episodes total and the finale aired on BBC America on January 2nd.
A representative for BBC Two said, “We loved the show but have to make hard choices to bring new shows through.”
What do you think? Did you like The Hour? Are you sorry to hear that there won’t be a third season?
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I am an American, and my husband and I LOOK for programming this good. We agree, British TV is better- almost alway.
I also wonder, along with a commenter above, are we supposed to be happy watching more Top Gear and more Gordon Ramsey shows? For the love of true story telling, PLEASE, someone develop and broadcast Season 3!!!!! Sell it. There has to be someone who’d buy it! Please!
I sincerely hope that rumors of The Hour’s demise are greatly exaggerated. The program is superb in all respects. Please reconsider
The Hour was superb, and a real credit to BBC. I regret its premature demise. Please reconsider.
Cancelling this is a mistake. It is one of the few programs that still retains any essence of class and integrity. It is exciting and dramatic, and the acting is so real that you feel as though you are a part of the story. It would have received a much better response if it had proper advertising, and people actually knew what it was about, with all of its conflict and twisting plotlines.
At the very least, a proper conclusion is all we fans can really ask for.
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