Accused (2010)

Genre

anthology series, drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 10 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

8.1 of 10 from 55 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Each episode of this anthology series centers on a different person waiting for a court verdict. The story shows how they ended up in that situation and what led to their arrest.

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What happens

Accused is a British television anthology series created by Jimmy McGovern. The drama series first aired on 15 November 2010 on BBC One and ran for two series. Each episode follows a different character as they await their verdict in court, and tells the story behind how they find themselves accused. The series featured actors such as Christopher Eccleston, Benjamin Smith, Juliet Stevenson, Andy Serkis, Marc Warren, Naomie Harris, Sean Bean and Anne-Marie Duff as the accused in each episode. The series follows previous drama series by McGovern, including anthology series The Street and Moving On. After the cancellation of The Street in 2009 by Granada Television, McGovern formed RSJ Films to produce independent drama programmes and subsequently devised the Accused anthology series. Accused was written by McGovern, Danny Brocklehurst and Alice Nutter and was filmed in Manchester. In 2011 it won an International Emmy for best drama series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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