Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Category: Eleventh Hour

  • Eleventh Hour: Subway

    Here’s an image from the last act of my episode, screened Thursday March 12. That’s Marley Shelton as Rachel Young in the Philadelphia subway system. Here’s Rufus Sewell with episode guest star Mariel Hemingway: And that’s yer basic screaming mob of fleeing citizens in the background.

  • New Stuff

    Well, I’m told that the information’s shown up on Wikipedia, so I suppose I’m safe to blab about it now… the good folks at JBTV were kind enough to invite me to take time off from development work to pitch something for the US version of Eleventh Hour, and my episode Subway will air on…

  • My Year

    Well, every other blogger seems to be doing it… but I’ll keep mine short because, frankly, it’s been one of those years where you can’t run through the best of it without the risk of sounding like a total arse. Let’s just say I’ve had a lot to be grateful for. But to put that…

  • Eleventh Hour USA

    This just in from somewhere… DISPLAYING SIGNIFICANT WEEKLY GAINS, ELEVENTH HOUR DELIVERS STRONGEST PERFORMANCE TO-DATE Earning significant weekly increases among all 18-49 and 25-54 measures (ranging from +21% to 54%), as well as Households (+24%) and Total Viewers (+24%), ELEVENTH HOUR earned 1st place in its 10PM hour among those same demos. Delivering its largest…

  • “Physics is the New Black”

    Recent editions of the Wired blog and The Los Angeles Times carry similar articles about the rising popularity of hard science in TV drama, reflected in the launch of the Science and Entertainment Exchange. The Exchange is “a program of the National Academy of Sciences that provides entertainment industry professionals with access to top scientists…

  • Widget, I’ve got a Widget…

    You may notice that over in the right-hand column there’s an Eleventh Hour widget. Anyone can download it from the CBS site’s Eleventh Hour pages, and it delivers a daily factoid to your website or blog. A couple of days ago I learned from it that every time we sneeze, some of our braincells die.…

  • Separated at Birth?

    I was organising the pictures on my hard drive, and here’s a conjunction of images that got a smile out of me: Clearly there’s some common DNA in all my protagonists. On the left we’ve got Rufus Sewell as Eleventh Hour‘s Jacob Hood, on the right is Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Harper in my Oktober…

  • Strange Days Indeed

    Well this has been one of the weirdest weeks ever. But I mean that in a good way. If you’ve been following the blog you’ll be aware that I have my name on a couple of shows airing on US network TV right now. I think I may have let it slip out once or…

  • Eleventh Hour USA

    The show debuts tonight on CBS in the slot right after CSI, and I’m holding my breath, crossing my fingers, and wishing ’em luck. I talked about the show concept, and influences, and the whole issue of adapted formats, in an interview with Tom Green for the Writers’ Guild newsletter a few weeks ago. Tom…

  • A Word from the Showrunners

    I hope he’ll forgive me for such a shameless piece of recycling, but I wanted to give more prominence to this addition by Eleventh Hour showrunner Ethan Reiff to the comments section of the previous post. There’s a reference here to an earlier entry titled The Brimstone Boys in which I wrote: The latest coverage…