• Source: The Eleventh Hour (Canadian TV series)

      • 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 U.S. on Sleuth, under the title Bury the Lead, to distinguish it from a CBS series with a similar name.


      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 Award 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.


      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
      John Neville as interviewer Deaton Hill


      Main Crew


      Creators: Semi Chellas, Ilana Frank
      Executive Producers: Ilana Frank, Semi Chellas, David Wellington
      Directors: David Wellington, Kelly Makin, Philip Earnshaw, T.W. Peacocke, Graeme Campbell, Milan Cheylov, Stephen Reynolds
      Writers: Semi Chellas, Esta Spalding, Tassie Cameron, Frank Borg, Sean Reycraft, Peter Wellington, Karen Walton, Morwyn Brebner


      Awards and nominations


      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).
      The show was nominated for Best Dramatic Series Gemini Awards again in 2004. In 2005, the show won Gemini Awards for Best Dramatic Series and for Best Writing for Semi Chellas and Tassie Cameron.


      Episode list




      = Season 1

      =
      Mad As Hatters
      I'm Mad As Hell
      The Source
      A Low, Dishonest Decade
      Tree Hugger
      A Modern Mata Hari
      Not Without My Reefer
      The 37-Year Itch
      Don't Have a Cow
      Shelter
      Cell Phone Slaves
      The RASH Troops of Error
      Hall of Mirrors


      = Season 2

      =
      Cowboy
      Stormy Petrel
      Hard Seven
      Swimmers
      Wonderland
      Gone Baby Gone
      Nadir
      Rather Be Wrong
      Georgia
      I'll Build Me An Island
      Strange Bedfellows
      The Revenge Specialist
      The Missionary Position


      = Season 3

      =
      Eden
      In Spite of All the Damage
      Megan Ice Cream
      Bedfellas
      A Virgin Walks into a Bar
      ZUGZWANG
      Hit Delete
      Kettle Black
      In Another Life
      The Miracle Worker
      Special Delivery
      Das Bootcamp
      Bumpy Cover


      External links



      The Eleventh Hour at IMDb
      The Eleventh Hour (fan Web site)

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