The Hour Series 2

Wednesday 14^th November, 9pm

BBC Two

Award-winning, Abi Morgan, (whose writing credits include The Iron Lady, Shame and Birdsong) has gifted the BBC with a second series of The Hour, a newsroom drama full of loose morals, power hungry behind and front-of-camera characters and enough brooding, smoking and drinking to match Mad Men.

We pick up a year after we left off, in 1957, with Peter Capaldi (of The Thick of It) joining the cast as the eccentric new Head of News who must strive to restore order and reputation to the programme.

With Bel (Romola Garai) growing increasingly obsessed with Britain’s criminal underground, she is desperate to reunite the old gang to help her break the story, but Hector (Dominic West) has allowed himself to be swallowed up by his new-found celebrity and Freddie (Ben Whishaw) ditched London to go travelling after being fired in the last series.

Oh, and the Cold War is upon them.