David Wellington
Director
The Eleventh Hour (2002)
Season 2
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.
Released Nov. 26, 2002
Episode 60 min
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S2E1 - Cowboy
When five women die in a mysterious blaze, Dennis goes after the head of a Russian sex slave ring; Isobel and Kamal meet a seriously disfigured boy set to receive a face transplant.
Feb. 15, 2004, midnight
S2E2 - Stormy Petrel
Isobel is duped by the cunning machinations of a beautiful young girl; a story about an enigmatic movie star with a dark secret deepens the rift between Dennis and Kennedy.
Feb. 22, 2004, midnight
S2E3 - Hard Seven
An inmate's account of a brutal gang rape drives Dennis' story on prison conditions in a dramatic new direction; Isobel gets hooked on slot machines while investigating the suicide of an addicted gambler.
March 7, 2004, midnight
S2E4 - Swimmers
Isobel gets entangled with victims of an unethical doctor in her expose of an in-vitro clinic; Kennedy sends Dennis to Halifax to find a baby girl cloned by a bizarre cult group.
March 14, 2004, midnight
S2E5 - Wonderland
Dennis investigates a vigilante incident; Megan loses her unerring objectivity while profiling a brain surgeon who can't save himself from brain cancer.
March 21, 2004, midnight
S2E6 - Gone Baby Gone
When a diplomat's son is killed by a car bomb, what appears to be a terrorist attack turns out to be a personal vendetta with tragic consequences.
March 28, 2004, midnight
S2E7 - Nadir
Dennis investigates the motives of a well-to-do housewife who returns home after vanishing without a trace five days earlier.
Isobel profiles a profiler with a vicious speech impediment. A stubborn Kennedy refuses to beg Megan to come back to The Eleventh Hour.
April 11, 2004, midnight
S2E8 - Rather Be Wrong
A racist politician sues The Eleventh Hour for defamation after Megan nails him during an interview. Dennis and Kamal harbour a military Corporal who claims her colleague was murdered by her commanding officer.
April 18, 2004, midnight
S2E9 - Georgia
Dennis is compelled to seek clemency for a Canadian prisoner on Death Row in the U.S. Meanwhile, Isobel uncovers a shocking secret while producin a story on the new face of Pornography.
April 25, 2004, midnight
S2E10 - I'll Build Me An Island
In an ice-storm blackout, Dennis strugles to finish a piece on an elusive U.S. gun manufacturer who wants to blow the whistle on his company's dirty business practices. Kennedy worries a romance with a coworker may have compromised Dennis' judgement.
May 2, 2004, midnight
S2E11 - Strange Bedfellows
The Eleventh Hour is incited to produce an in-depth expose on ""modren marriage"" after an Anglican Bishop refuses to marry a gay couple, and a reality show tries to pair up a nerd with a supermodel.
May 9, 2004, midnight
S2E12 - The Revenge Specialist (1)
Isobel's life falls apart as she digs into pornography charges against a well-loved children's television series.
Eleventh hour anchor Megan Redner is determined to secure an exclusive interview with Stella Loos, a Canadian missionary who was rescued from the Taliban after armed American Special Task Force troops stormed an Afghani hospital. From all appearances, the operation was a coup for the U.S. troops, raising morale in Afghanistan. It is assumed that the American networks will be all over the story, but Stella seems to have no media handlers and the American oulets don't even seem to be in the mix.
Kennedy wonders if Stella is being coy about her celebrity; that perhaps she's holding out for a book deal. So the show's lawyer, Murray Dann, draws up an offer for her through their corporate publishing arm, Rutger-Hill. In doing so, they buy the book, the movie rights and the interview.
May 16, 2004, midnight
S2E13 - The Missionary Position (2)
Suddenly, Stella claims to have amnesia about the whole event, but when she lets it slip that she prayed in the Afghan hosital where her ""amnesia"" apparently began, Megan and story producer Dennis recognise a cover-up.
Megan follows her hunch and sets off for Afghanistan to expose the cover-up while Dennis tracks down Stell's doctor, Dr. Osama Amir, who reveals the truth: the U.S. troops shot a civilian doctor in cold blood during what they knew was in fact a needless rescue mission, and now they're covering it up. Dr. Amir and Stella both saw what happened that day - and Dennis plots to get the evidence to expose the whole debacle, setting off a chain of events that threaten to destry both Dennis' journalistic integrity and his personal relationships.
May 30, 2004, midnight
Network: CTV
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 2340 min.
Released: Nov. 26, 2002
Last Air Date: March 26, 2005, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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