What is The Hour About?

The series, set behind the scenes of the BBC’s newsroom in London in the mid ’50s, is an edge-of-your-seat spy thriller. It follows the lives of three characters as they set up a new weekly investigative news program, The Hour. The Hour plays out as a riveting thriller set against the backdrop of the Cold War and Ian Fleming’s world of espionage.

The drama plots the personal lives, professional interplay and jealous ambition between aspiring but renegade journalist Freddie Lyon, the beautiful ambitious young producer Bel Rowley with whom he is in love, and his handsome rival Hector Madden, the face and lead anchorman of this rising television news team.

Cast:

Dominic West, Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw.