[SciFiWire] CBS, Bruckheimer Importing 11th Hour

[Cassie Hughes]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/news_thumbnails/cbslogo_tn.jpg CBS has ordered a new drama pilot from Jerry Bruckheimer TV based on the British SF television series Eleventh Hour, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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[N4H]

Sounds like it might be interesting.

The original ITV series ran for four episodes last year in the U.K. It starred Patrick Stewart as a special science adviser to the government who, with his feisty female bodyguard in tow, saves people from the worst abuses of science.

[goldenboy]

I think...I vaguely recall Mr. Pointy commenting on the original show, liking it.

[N4H]

He saves people from the worst abuses of science.

Here's some inspired casting, I think. Get Al Gore to play the inevitable arch-evil nemesis. The corruption of science, you see.

[prydain]

I tried watching the original, never finished it. Not a terrible concept though, sounds like "Strange World".

[goldenboy]

Maybe they could get Leo DiCaprio guesting on the show...riding around in his Prius. Tom Cruise battling evil psychiatrists and Ritalin peddlers...

I dunno. Could be interesting. Science gone awry is a classic sci-fi theme, old as the genre itself.

[N4H]

We should send these ideas to Robot Chicken. :)