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 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. 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

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

    Season two

  14. Cowboy
  15. Stormy Petrel
  16. Hard Seven
  17. Swimmers
  18. Wonderland
  19. Gone Baby Gone
  20. Nadir
  21. Rather Be Wrong
  22. Georgia
  23. I'll Build Me An Island
  24. Strange Bedfellows
  25. The Revenge Specialist
  26. The Missionary Position

    Season three

  27. Eden
  28. In Spite of All the Damage
  29. Megan Ice Cream
  30. Bedfellas
  31. A Virgin Walks into a Bar
  32. ZUGZWANG
  33. Hit Delete
  34. Kettle Black
  35. In Another Life
  36. The Miracle Worker
  37. Special Delivery
  38. Das Bootcamp
  39. Bumpy Cover