The chopping block has been somewhat unkind to science fiction lately. Eleventh Hour is the latest show to get cancelled as reported by Entertainment Weekly columnist Michael Ausiello. I personally am saddened by this devastating news and…no I’m not really, but I’m sure there are the token few fans of the show that are mourning its loss, right? Anyone? Hello?!?
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Network Sci-Fi/Fantasy Shows: Renewals, Cancellations, and Newcomers
With the networks officially kicking off their upfront presentations this month, we’ve now gotten official (and in some cases, semi-official) confirmations about which shows are coming back, which ones are gone, and what new offerings will be available to the genre fans out there. The schedule for the upfronts are: FOX’s begins today, followed by ABC on Tuesday, and CBS on Wednesday. NBC already did theirs earlier this month.
CBS Gives The Eleventh Hour 5 More Episodes
I’ll admit it: I haven’t watched a whole lot of The Eleventh Hour on CBS, although I did catch the pilot and the next four episodes or so. I liked what I saw, but it was probably too procedural for my taste, with the usual “scientific crime of the week” deal that CBS has made bank off with the CSI shows and their ilk. Basically, CBS is the network for procedural crime shows, what with all fifty CSI shows, The Mentalist, NCIS, and pretty much every show on the network that isn’t a comedy. In that sense, it’s no surprise that Eleventh Hour seems to be doing very well, if not exactly gangbuster ratings. Enough for the network to order five more episodes (short of a full season), anyway.
Eleventh Hour TV Pilot Episode Review
On the surface, CBS’ new medical tech/crime show Eleventh Hour doesn’t really appeal to me, in the same way that FOX’s Fringe doesn’t appeal to me. But I have to admit, my curiosity about Eleventh Hour was substantially piqued when they cast the gorgeous Marley Shelton as not just the female lead, but as an ass-kicking FBI agent who is the bodyguard to brooding, brilliant scientist Rufus Sewell. That’s right; the hot chick is the bad ass in this show, and not the other way around as is often the case in these types of shows. That little tweak in what is a pretty formulaic premise was more than enough to get me sufficiently intrigued.
New The Eleventh Hour Promos
A lot of things about the new CBS sci-fi show The Eleventh Hour appeals to me. One is finally seeing the great actor Rufus Sewell finally play something other than a smarmy evil European for once; and the other is the idea of the gorgeous Marley Shelton playing an ass-kicking bodyguard to Sewell’s scientist character. That’s pretty new, you gotta admit, since usually it’s the other way around. I’m dying to see how the dynamics of that switcheroo works onscreen, if it does, that is. Anyways, new promos for the show have popped up online.
The Eleventh Hour TV Series (2008) Images Gallery
The Eleventh Hour TV Series (2008) Images Gallery
Plot: Based on the limited British sci-fi series of the same name that starred Patrick Stewart, the American remake centers on Jacob Hood (Rufus Sewell), a special science adviser to the government who, with his feisty female bodyguard Rachel (Marley Shelton) in tow, saves people from the worst abuses of science.
First Look at Eleventh Hour TV Series
What’s old is new again, isn’t that how the saying goes? A decade ago, every TV network was trying to emulate the success of FOX’s The X-Files, putting out shows about the paranormal with their own Mulder and Scully. But every single one of them bit the dust, because let’s face it, no one wanted copies when the original was still around. A decade later, it seems like every network has their own versions of The X-Files all over again. CBS has their own, too, called Eleventh Hour, starring Marley Shelton and Rufus Sewell.
Marley Shelton and Rufus Sewell Investigate Mad Science in Eleventh Hour
If there was such a thing as the Midas Touch, then uber producer Jerry Bruckheimer certainly seems to have it. Every thing this guy touches turns to gold, including hit TV shows and movies (“Transformers”, “Bad Boys”, just to name a few). Bruckheimer’s latest venture is a U.S. version of the British show Eleventh Hour, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, actress Marley Shelton (below, “Grindhouse”) and actor Rufus Sewell (left, “Dark City”) have been tapped to star.
