Mr Bates vs The Post Office (2024)
- Genre
- docudrama
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 4 episodes
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 88 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is a dramatization of the British Post Office scandal. It follows subpostmasters who were wrongly prosecuted for theft because of a faulty computer system. The series centers on their fight for justice.
tenseheartbreakinginfuriatingurgentsoberingsuspensefulemotionalquietly defiant
What happens
Mr Bates vs The Post Office is a four-part British television drama series for ITV, written by Gwyneth Hughes, directed by James Strong and starring an ensemble cast led by Toby Jones. The series is a dramatisation of the British Post Office scandal, a miscarriage of justice in which hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted (privately and publicly) for theft, false accounting or fraud due to a faulty computer system called Horizon. It was broadcast on four consecutive days from 1 January 2024. The series won a Peabody Award at the 85th ceremony. It won the 2025 BAFTA award for Limited Drama (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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