Mr Bates vs The Post Office
2024 British television series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the TV drama. For the scandal, see British Post Office scandal. For the legal case, see Bates v Post Office Ltd (No 3).
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.[1][2]
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Genre | Drama |
Written by | Gwyneth Hughes |
Directed by | James Strong |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 |
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Producer | Chris Clough |
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Network | ITV |
Release | 1 January (2024-01-01) ā 4 January 2024 (2024-01-04) |
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The series takes its name from the court case instigated by the former subpostmaster Alan Bates and others.