The British drama
The Hour, launching on Wednesday, Aug. 17, on BBC America, arrives at an inauspicious time for British journalists currently mired in a phone-hacking scandal and charges of police bribery that has closed newspapers and brought media moguls in front of Parliament. Those involved with such illicit and illegal wiretapping bear little resemblance to the journalist-heroes of
The Hour, set in and around a BBC newsroom in 1956, where the truth was the most important principle.
Over at The Daily Beast, you can read my latest feature,
"The British Mad Men?" in which I sit down with
The Hour's creator Abi Morgan to discuss the journalist-heroes of the six-part series, comparisons to AMC’s ‘Mad Men,’ and Morgan’s upcoming Margaret Thatcher biopic,
The Iron Lady.
The Hour premieres tonight at 10 pm ET/PT on BBC America.
