BBC Airs Program About Itself
Did you watch the premiere of “The Hour” last night on BBC America? I somehow made it all the way through, which surprised me since I found the art direction to be uninterestingly artificial, the acting to be shallow, and the storyline so far to be obvious. Ben Whishaw looks too young — he’s all hair! — to be a crack reporter. Romola Garai, who was so fine in “Atonement,” quivers a bit too much. And Dominic West, the lovable lout of “The Wire,” is so far given a fairly one-dimensional assignment as the host of a 1950s news series on the BBC called “The Hour.” I hope the show gets better.
