The Eleventh Hour (TV series)

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The Eleventh Hour
Format Drama
Created by Ilana Frank
Country of origin Flag of Canada Canada
No. of episodes 39
Production
Running time 60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel CTV
Original run November 26, 2002 – March 26, 2005

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 newsmagazine 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.

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[edit] Ratings

Although the show started off poorly in the Canadian television ratings, attracting an average of just 400,000 viewers each week, its audience during the start of its 2004 season was sufficiently high that CTV ordered a third season. However, ratings did not improve further. The third season, already ordered, aired irregularly on Saturday nights with very little promotion, and proved to be its last. The final season also received a Best Dramatic Series Gemini despite the cancellation.

The Eleventh Hour was the latest in a lengthy line of drama series at CTV which had high-profile launches but were quickly marginalized to little-watched weekend timeslots and ultimately cancelled. However, it outlasted several other recent CTV dramas, including Power Play, The City, and The Associates, which each lasted two seasons.

The show's theme song for season 3 is "Weapon", by Matthew Good.

[edit] Cast

  • Sonja Smits as correspondent Megan Redner
  • Shawn Doyle as producer Dennis Langley
  • Waneta Storms as producer Isobel Lambert
  • Tanya Reid as executive producer Kennedy Marsh
  • Jeff Seymour as correspondent Kamal Azizi
  • Peter MacNeill as network news head Warren Donohue
  • Inga Cadranel as researcher Brooke Fairburn
  • Scott McCord as researcher James Joy
  • Matt Gordon as legal counsel Murray Dann
  • Jonas Chernick as editor Gavin Kowalchuk

[edit] Awards

The show was nominated for 14 Gemini Awards in 2003, and won for Best Dramatic Series, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Seymour) and Best Supporting Actor (MacNeill).

[edit] Episode list

[edit] Season one

  1. Mad As Hatters
  2. I'm Mad As Hell
  3. The Source
  4. A Low, Dishonest Decade
  5. Tree Hugger
  6. A Modern Mata Hari
  7. Not Without My Reefer
  8. The 37-Year Itch
  9. Don't Have a Cow
  10. Shelter
  11. Cell Phone Slaves
  12. The RASH Troops of Error
  13. Hall of Mirrors

[edit] Season two

  1. Cowboy
  2. Stormy Petrel
  3. Hard Seven
  4. Swimmers
  5. Wonderland
  6. Gone Baby Gone
  7. Nadir
  8. Rather Be Wrong
  9. Georgia
  10. I'll Build Me An Island
  11. Strange Bedfellows
  12. The Revenge Specialist
  13. The Missionary Position

[edit] Season Three

  1. Eden
  2. In Spite of All the Damage
  3. Megan Ice Cream
  4. Bedfellas
  5. A Virgin Walks into a Bar
  6. ZUGZWANG
  7. Hit Delete
  8. Kettle Black
  9. In Another Life
  10. The Miracle Worker
  11. Special Delivery
  12. Das Bootcamp
  13. Bumpy Cover

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