Rufus Sewell And Marley Shelton Lead Eleventh Hour

Rufus Sewell and Marley Shelton will star in Jerry Bruckheimer’s new CBS SF drama Eleventh Hour, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Based on a limited British series, Eleventh centers on Jacob Hood (Sewell), a special science adviser to the government, who, with his feisty female bodyguard Rachel (Shelton), saves people from the worst abuses of science. In the original series, the roles were played by Patrick Stewart and Ugly Betty’s Ashley Jensen. The CBS version, which is set in the United States, was written by Mick Davis and will be directed by Danny Cannon. Shelton most recently starred in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse.