BritBox’s Forgotten 4-Part Sci-Fi Thriller With Patrick Stewart Is the Perfect Weekend Binge
ITV’s *Eleventh Hour*, a little-known 2006 science-fiction thriller starring Patrick Stewart, is being highlighted as a series worth revisiting. Its four feature-length episodes use scientific investigations to explore the real-world risks of research pursued without regard for its consequences.
Stewart plays Professor Ian Hood, a government science adviser, with Ashley Jensen as Rachel Young, the Special Branch officer assigned to protect him. Cases include suspected illegal human cloning, a deadly virus outbreak and possible sabotage of climate research; the British series later inspired a US adaptation starring Rufus Sewell.
- Patrick Stewart leads the four-part ITV thriller *Eleventh Hour*.
- The cases focus on science with potentially serious consequences.
- Ashley Jensen co-stars as Hood’s Special Branch protector.