The Eleventh Hour

This is an article about the Canadian television series. To read about the 1962 American series, see The Eleventh Hour (1962)

The Eleventh Hour (debuted 2002) is a Canadian television drama series which airs weekly on CTV.

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.

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

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

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

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

Other notes

The Eleventh Hour is produced by Alliance Atlantis, Canada's largest film and television production house.

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).

Although the show started off poorly in the Canadian television ratings, attracting an average of just 400,000 viewers each week, its audience has improved considerably in the 2004 season.

External links

• The Eleventh Hour on CTV's Web site
• The Eleventh Hour on TVTome
• IMDb Entry
• The Eleventh Hour (fan Web site)