The Eleventh Hour
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The Eleventh Hour

4.8 / 10
2002
3 seasons
39 episodes
Drama

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.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Mad As Hatters

    26-11-200260m

    Dennis knows he's on to a story when he learns that residents of The Latitude Lofts, a building owned and occupied by an artists' co-operative, are afflicted by fibromyalgia. But h...

  • Ep 2

    2.I'm Mad As Hell

    03-12-200260m

    A highly-charged story about air rage turns into a brouhaha between Kamal and Deaton as each tries to exert his own spin on the issue. Kamal and Deaton have been trapped in a pla...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Source

    10-12-200260m

    ""A Honduran translator disappears when she's suspected of being Dennis' source for bribery allegations against a Canadian firm and a corrupt Honduran bureaucrat.""

  • Ep 4

    4.A Low, Dishonest Decade

    17-12-200260m

    Isobel suspects that philanthropist and self-proclaimed draft dodger Jefferson Grant may have actually been involved in a civilian massacre in a tiny Vietnamese village.

  • Ep 5

    5.Tree Hugger

    31-12-200260m

    Isobel struggles to uncover the true motives behind an environmental group's fight to save a contentious piece of land.

  • Ep 6

    6.A Modern Mata Hari

    07-01-200360m

    The brains of a top CSIS agent are splattered all over the windshield of his car and speculation is running high on whether it was suicide or murder. Some say George Barkin was bei...

  • Ep 7

    7.Not Without My Reefer

    14-01-200360m

    Dennis investigates the Draconian drug laws threatening the future of a marijuana fugitive.

  • Ep 8

    8.The 37-Year Itch

    21-01-200360m

    Isobel's investigation into a web of political corruption is spurred by her own misguided faith.

  • Ep 9

    9.Don't Have a Cow

    28-01-200360m

    Kamal vows to bring a corrupt grocery chain to its knees; Dennis grapples with the guilt of a missed moment.

  • Ep 10

    10.Shelter

    18-04-200360m

    While investigating a suspicious social worker, Dennis stumbles on evidence that a child killer may have been wrongly convicted.

  • Ep 11

    11.Cell Phone Slaves

    25-04-200360m

    Kamal traces an illicit supply chain from war-torn Eastern Congo to the clubby world of corporate Canada, inadvertantly getting mixed up in insider trading.

  • Ep 12

    12.The RASH Troops of Error

    02-05-200360m

    While investigating a school shooting, Isobel is struck by how the media's hot pursuit of the truth can destroy those in its path.

  • Ep 13

    13.Hall of Mirrors

    09-05-200360m

    The network falls hostage to the demands of a madman intent on delivering his rant over the airwaves. A police profiler, Det. Linus Goslings, is involved in the search for a bombe...

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