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6 days ago · The success of the ITV miniseries Mr Bates vs The Post Office in raising public awareness, and anger, about the Post Office/ Horizon IT scandal – in which hundreds of sub-postmasters were...
5 days ago · Commissioned by the University of Reading’s law department and produced by inventive company Rabble Theatre, Zannah Kearns’s Glitch was written before Gwyneth Hughes’s gamechanging ITV four-parter Mr Bates vs The Post Office won publicity and the prospect of proper recompense for more than 700 subpostmasters falsely accused of fraud.
16 hours ago · With a competing documentary rumoured to be underway by Channel 4, veterans hope their stories will hit the headlines with the same impact as the Horizon scandal exposed by ITV drama Mr Bates vs ...
5 days ago · Simon Lee on Unsplash. The ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which tells the story of the British Post Office scandal, is the UK’s most watched programme of 2024 and ITV’s biggest new drama in over a decade. This compelling David and Goliath tale of a 20-plus year battle for justice by a group of sub-postmasters wrongly accused of ...
3 days ago · Equally striking about Mr Bates vs The Post Office is that its form is recognisable from many other stories. As Gwyneth Hughes notes, Alan Bates’s quest for justice already contains the kind of ‘ desire line’ that also drives many Hollywood films. Alan Bates wants something, and he must fight to get it. The events are contemporary, but ...
5 days ago · The cast of Mr Bates Vs The Post Office (Photo: ITV) Following the landmark Court of Appeal decision to overturn their criminal convictions, dozens of former sub postmasters and postmistresses have been exonerated on all counts as they battled to finally clear their names.
5 days ago · The Traitors, Race Across the World, and Mr Bates vs The Post Office have given us many memorable TV moments in 2024 so far. (BBC/ITV) With the TV schedules being smothered at the...
