Underplayed Gems

The Innocence Project (2006)

The Innocence Project poster
Genre
legal drama
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 8 episodes
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A law professor leads a team of students in a legal clinic that reopens old cases for wrongly convicted clients. The group takes on forgotten or hopeless cases that no one else will touch.

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What happens

The Innocence Project is a television drama series created by BBC Northern Ireland and first broadcast on BBC One on 9 November 2006. The series follows the work of Professor Jon Ford (Lloyd Owen), who sets up The Innocence Project, peopled entirely by a hand-picked group of law students. They take on cases pro bono that no one else will handle, or those that have been forgotten or given up on, working for clients that would otherwise have no hope, and who have possibly been wrongly convicted. The series is based on a British version of the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal clinic in the United States. The Innocence Project fared particularly poorly for a BBC primetime drama, and received a number of negative reviews. In an unusual move for the BBC, the series was pulled from the schedules mid-run, and the final three episodes were not broadcast until over a month later. The BBC subsequently confirmed that the series would not be renewed. Notably, the series has also never been issued on DVD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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