Downton Abbey as The Hour
London’s top reporter Mary Lyon comes back to London after nine months abroad. She returns to The Hour at the request of the new Head of News, Charles Carson. Mary’s arrival isn’t taken well by producer and longtime friend, Matthew Rowley, who finds her sudden return a cold slap to his face from when she practically ran away from him and everything they had worked for during their careers just nine months ago.
As Mary delves deeper into the world of dangerous and questionable politics with threats of nuclear warfare. She finds that she isn’t as untouchable as she used to believe and having to come to terms that she can’t tell every story that the government has been covering up is hard for her to grasp.