“Zero Hour” was and continues to be an American network science fiction television show starring “ER” lead Anthony Edwards. 13 episodes were shot for the first series but after only 3 aired the program was pulled for retooling. Last week ABC, the network responsible for the show, announced it was pulling the plug on the show but would air the remaining 10 episodes beginning on June 8, 2013 and concluding the show on August 3.
The good news for those living in the U.K. is the announcement yesterday that all 13 episodes, including the big finale, is now available ONLY in the U.K. from iTunes. Why, one may ask, is this good news if the show is being canceled anyway? It’s news because “Zero Hour” is a very fine program that ABC never allowed to capture an audience.
“Zero Hour” centers around bizarre twists and turns that end up pulling Edwards’ character, Hank Galliston a skeptic magazine editor, and his crew of researchers who have spent two decades debunking the mysterious and unnatural as very natural and explainable with common sense and modern day science into one of the most strange and compelling conspiracies in human history. Cloning, nazism, time travel and alternate realities are all examined in this riveting show that was never allowed to get its proper sea-legs.
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“Very fine program”? It was one of the most dreadful programs of the season and didn’t even deserve to have three episodes aired. Slice of Sci-fi really has lowered its standards if you guys think this was a good show.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. That’s why we have a comment section for each article. One person’s treasure is another’s throw-away trash.
And vice versa. 🙂
While we can understand that you don’t like the show, Mark, that does not mean that others can’t enjoy it.
The best shows in my opinion don’t fit a mold of predictable. Its funny to see all the boring white folk run to a dance floor when the music of a line dance plays again boring. American’s need to know what’s going to happen before it happens although once in awhile the show might throw in a curve ball. It makes me laugh at how many show come from the UK now they might adapt it to american actors with a few other small changes but they came from the BBC.
So please allow creativity without the mold. JP
I came across this blurb re Zero Hour in an article on the airdates for the remaining episodes of it and 666 Park Avenue:
“While neither series will return for sophomore runs, both are expected to give fans at least some finality. Producers of “Zero Hour” had previously told fans the central mystery of the series would have been wrapped up by the end of season one and had season two happened, they would have set up a new scenario.”
http://www.examiner.com/article/cancelled-series-zero-hour-666-park-avenue-and-do-no-harm-set-for-returns
So it seems that IF we invest some of our limited free time in the remaining episodes, there apparently WILL be a point to it all (though I’m guessing that in the last episode, they may have also set up some kind of lead-in into what would have been season 2, so there may be some new string left dangling).