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Abi Morgan won an Emmy on Sunday night for writing The Hour, a co-production from BBC America and Shine-owned Kudos, which aired on the UK’s BBC Two. With The Hour cancelled last season, some of the partners are coming back together for new drama, River. Commissioned by flagship channel BBC One, the six-part series is…

The Hour won't be back for a third season after all. The BBC today pulled the plug on the one-hour drama about a 1950s BBC newsmagazine show. "We loved the show but have to make hard choices to bring new shows through," the BBC said. Staring Skyfall's Ben Whishaw, Romola Garai and The Wire's Dominic West, the…

Just as the BBC faces its own real-life TV journalism crisis, the second season of 1950s newsroom drama The Hour kicked off on BBC Two last night. Overnight ratings were down sharply from the series’ debut last year. Hitting an all-time low, the combined audience was 1.33M for a 5.9% share, compared to last year’s…

‘The Lady’ Set As Opener At Rome Fest Luc Besson’s The Lady, the political drama starring Michelle Yeoh and inspired by the recently freed Burmese opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has been tapped to open the Rome International Film Festival on Oct. 27. It won’t be the first stop for the film…

Andrew Davies, who wrote the script for The Three Musketeers and a slew of BBC period dramas, is adapting Lindy Woodhead's nonfiction bestseller Shopping, Seduction & Mr Selfridge for ITV Studios. I'm told that ITV hopes the story of how brash American retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge –“The Showman of Shopping”…

BBC America has come on board to co-produce the new six-part drama series The Hour, announced in November by BBC Two. The series, which will premiere in the summer on BBC America, was  created and written by BAFTA-winning Abi Morgan (White Girl). It is a spy thriller set behind the scenes of the BBC's newsroom in…