My Hour

The thoughts of a retro dinosaur

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Are you bitter because The Hour ended and we might not get a third series? Me too! I tried finding everything The Hour related on the web to fill the hole in our hearts this show left us. Message me if I missed anything.

sign the petition for series three! 

download the soundtrack (by Alice) / article on the soundtrack by composer Kevin Sargent

a lovely fan-written script for SE2EP1 (by Celine) / the actual script for SE1EP1 by Abi Morgan

like the facebook page! / another facebook! / save the hour facebook +

twitter! / #savethehour / savethehour tumblr

Annie’s fantastic savethehour campaign / Alice’s amazing petition news

historical blogs on season two

character cocktails! / special edition drinking game (someone should make antoher drinking game)

watch The Hour: a powerpoint / watch The Hour: an essay

quick introduction to season two (with clips)

logo t-shirts & hoodies / i ♥ the The Hour shirt

this show has a great costume department x/x/x/x/x/x/x, yet I could only find two (two!!) sets on Polyvore: x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/

join the lj community! / icon elite

signature tea blends on Adagio (by Janelle)

the fic tag on AO3 & ff (more. we need more fic. if anyone has  recs or a rec list, let me now and i’ll put it on here!)

fandom scarves / 

fanmixes: 8tracks / tag + tag

(fan)vids: tag + tag + B O Y + bedroom hymns / original launch promo: Freddie, Hector, Bel.

fanart: tag + tag + tag + tag/ deviant art / bel!

screencaps: grandecaps / blu-ray / + +

poetry: somewhere i have never travelled by e.e. cummings, Howl by Allen Ginsberg

the hour compared to: Mad Men, The Newsroom

interviews: Romola + + +, Dominic +, Ben + +, Hannah, Lisa, Oona, Abi Morgan + // the best interview ever.

(cap)blogs on Tumblr: thehouryoucantmiss + elparadis + thehourcaps + limegrove + thehour1956 + thehour-bbc + hour-caps + limegrovestudios + freddieandbel + fythehour + tag + tag + tag + tag

buy the series on itunes

series one (bluray) on amazon / not bluray

season two (bluray) / not bluray

torrents / watch online

[suddenwretched]

A 12-track fanmix to keep the fight going. We won’t let Money be king.

SIGN THE PETITION

GET #savethehour TRENDING ON TWITTER

LIKE THE FACEBOOK PAGE

FOLLOW THE BLOG

EMAIL THE BBC

LISTEN HERE | tracklist : the hour (opening theme) - daniel giorgetti; panic - the smiths;  where is home? - bloc party; take aim - kasabian; i fought the law - the clash; declare independence - björk; you and whose army? - radiohead; now - paramore; hero - regina spektor; smokers outside the hospital doors - editors; follow the cops back home - placebo; timshel - mumford & sons

#savethehour

[retrorust]

The last mini to leave longbridge rescued at last from the tunnels! going to be restored !

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[PETITION] | [EMAIL FORM TO THE BBC] | [GET #savethehour TRENDING ON TWITTER]

I’ve never in my life campaigned for anything, for any cause, and it’s pretty ironic that I’m doing it for the first time for a television programme. But it’s not just a mere tv show: it is material that everyone should at least peek into, because it’s different. Different in a way that content and quality dominate it. It not only entertains, but gives a fair amount of questions to think about, to relate to. And people shouldn’t let something that is culturally so important sink and fade away.

Canceling it is not only a massive loss for those who watch it, of course: actors lose their job, the creators can’t continue to bring into life what they intended to. So if you do something, don’t do it because a small group of people are upset about the decision of the BBC. Do it for the future of the crew and television itself.

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Tweet #savethehour.

[theretrohour]

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the color of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

EE Cummings, "No-one, not even the rain".

[ffrenchtoast]

“Dust on the lens. Didn’t I always tell you what happens if you leave the cap off the lens?”

[theretrohour]

Capaldi and Chancellor stole the show for me!

[thehour1956]

[theretrohour]

well maybe just one more.

[theretrohour]

Bell's Whisky and Miles Davis.

I'm off now. I'm going home and I'm going to have a dram, read a book and listen to Miles Davis. Sometimes Britain really pisses me off.

[sciencevsromance]

The BBC cancelled the Hour, a show whose idealization of broadcast journalism managed to be much more tolerable than the Newsroom, probably through some combination of time, distance, casting, and spy capering,  [bbc] 

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[morivita]

we will miss you .

it’s okay .

[duckodeath]

Randall knows the power of riled fandom…

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The Hour (2011-2012)

[theretrohour]

The Hour has passed...

Today I had big plans for my dissertation. Plans that were ruined by the announcement that the BBC have refused to recommission the third, and final series of 'The Hour'. Instead, I'm going to blog now a mammoth post about why I'm so annoyed with the Beeb and thus, after airing my frustrations, I will begin anew tomorrow on the dissertation front. Allow me to begin:

Since 'The Hour' entered our screens in 2011, it has set a new standard within television drama for storylines, characters, costume, acting, music, directing... the list goes on. Standards which, may I add, many of it's rivals failed to live up to. 'The Hour' represented television for an engaged educated audience, or an audience with an interest in vintage fashions, or an audience with an interest in History... in fact, I would argue that anyone who gives the show the time of day would find it enthralling.

Billed as Britain's answer to 'Madmen', it matched its rival in its costume and music... yet it far surpassed 'Madmen' with regard to storyline and characters. You felt for each and everyone of them from the brave Freddie Lyons, to the brilliant Lix Storm... an emotional investment which appears wasted today. The end of the second season ends on a cliffhanger, the loose twines of which will never be addressed and instead will be left to the imaginations of the shows loyal fanbase to complete; in their minds and in reams of fanfiction stories.

With regard to this loyal fanbase, self-branded "Brightstones", today's news is heartbreaking, particularly after it was revealed that three series was the original plan for the piece. The Beeb blame a lack of viewers for the demise of the show, particularly after a huge trail... something which I find particularly gauling. I only became aware of the second series after I spotted an advert on the BBC the day before. Compare this to the bombardment viewers received with their recent adaptation of Stephen Poliakoff's 'Dancing On The Edge'. As a result of this under advertisement, the opening episode of series 2 pulled in 1.33 million (still a decent number for a midweek BBC2 show), a drop from the 2.89 million that saw the first episode of series 1. This somehow surprises the BBC. Perhaps if they were to appreciate the strength of the Hour's popularity, particularly with regard to the "Brightstones" then they would have advertised more and the drop wouldn't have happened.

The BBC has scored a massive own-goal with this, and has alienated a whole lot of it's audience in the process. It is for gripping, ground-breaking drama such as 'The Hour' that I pay my TV license, not for 'Sun, Sea and Suspicious Parents'. I am wholeheartedly disappointed with the corporation, bitterly so in fact. My disappointment stretches to the extent that I am going to boycott any BBC programmes, websites or radio stations for the forseeable future. This boycott will come to an end when the BBC begins to use license fees for quality, until then- in my eyes at least, it has lost its integrity.

Viewing figures are not everything, money is not everything. Quality is what matters, quality is what counts. One of my personal favourite Freddie moments is when he quotes Abraham Lincoln:

 "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country … Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavour to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." [1]

How sad that the Beeb hasn't listened to what was preached in this masterpiece. Money, regrettably, remains king.

This is the Hour that will be missed.

1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/dec/13/the-hour-series-two-episode-six

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