Mr Bates vs The Post Office

This article is about the TV drama. For the legal case, see Bates & Others v Post Office Ltd.

Mr Bates vs The Post Office
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GenreDrama
Written byGwyneth Hughes
Directed byJames Strong
Starring
Theme music composerVince Pope
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes4
Production
Executive producers
  • Patrick Spence
  • Gwyneth Hughes
  • Natasha Bondy
  • Ben Gale
  • James Strong
  • Joe Williams
ProducerChris Clough
Production companies
Original release
NetworkITV
Release1 January (2024-01-01) –
4 January 2024 (2024-01-04)
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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]

The series takes its name from the court case instigated by the former subpostmaster Alan Bates and others.

  1. ^ Harrison, Ellie (1 January 2024). "'We all secretly think they're spinning it out so everyone dies before they get their money': Inside Mr Bates vs the Post Office". Independent. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  2. ^ Willix, Pierra (1 January 2024). "'I'm the real Mr Bates – my battle against the Post Office isn't over yet'". Metro. Retrieved 1 January 2024.