Criminal Justice (2008)

Directed by

Otto Bathurst

Genre

drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 10 episodes

Rated

18+

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This series follows ordinary people drawn into the criminal justice system. In the first season, a young man wakes up after a night of drinking and drugs to find himself accused of murder. He cannot remember what happened and must navigate the legal process while his life unravels.

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What happens

Criminal Justice is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2008. Written by Peter Moffat, each five-episode series follows the journey of an individual through the justice system and was first broadcast over five successive nights on BBC One. The first series, first shown in 2008, starred Ben Whishaw as Ben Coulter, a young man who is accused of murder after a drunken and drug-filled night out, though is unable to remember committing the crime. It was directed by Otto Bathurst and Luke Watson. In 2009, the second series featured Maxine Peake as troubled housewife Juliet Miller whose husband was stabbed in their bed. Yann Demange and Marc Jobst directed the second series. The first series won two British Academy Television Awards for Best Drama Serial and Best Writer, three Royal Television Society Awards and an International Emmy. The first season has been re-made into an HBO miniseries The Night Of, an Indian Hindi-language series also called Criminal Justice, and a South Korean series titled One Ordinary Day. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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