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Mr Bates vs The Post Office
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
A faulty IT system called Horizon, developed by Fujitsu, creates apparent cash shortfalls that cause Post Office Limited to pursue prosecutions for fraud, theft and false accounting against a number of subpostmasters across the UK. In 2009, a group of these, led by Alan Bates, forms the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance. The prosecutions and convictions are later ruled a miscarriage of justice at the conclusion of the Bates & Others v Post Office Ltd judicial case in 2019.
Written by Gwyneth Hughes and directed by James Strong, the series was produced by Chris Clough for Little Gem and ITV Studios. Filming began in May 2023 and took place in Llandudno, Conwy, and Tatsfield, Surrey. Former member of the Business Select Committee Nadhim Zahawi had a small role, playing himself.
Journalist Nick Wallis, who has written extensively about the scandal, was a consultant on the series.
Although the series had been watched by an estimated 13.5 million people as of late-April 2024, ITV said it had made a loss of around £1 million on the production. Kevin Lygo, ITV's managing director of media and entertainment, partially blamed the lack of international appeal in the subject matter for these losses.
The series was shown on ITV1 from 1 to 4 January 2024, and was released in full on ITVX on the same date. In the United States, the series premiered on PBS's drama anthology Masterpiece in April 2024. In Australia, the series premiered in February 2024 on Channel Seven. In Germany and France the series was shown on Arte in March 2025 and was available on the Arte Mediathek until 24 June 2025.
Immediately after the final episode, ITV broadcast a documentary Mr Bates vs the Post Office: The Real Story.
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Mr Bates vs The Post Office
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
A faulty IT system called Horizon, developed by Fujitsu, creates apparent cash shortfalls that cause Post Office Limited to pursue prosecutions for fraud, theft and false accounting against a number of subpostmasters across the UK. In 2009, a group of these, led by Alan Bates, forms the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance. The prosecutions and convictions are later ruled a miscarriage of justice at the conclusion of the Bates & Others v Post Office Ltd judicial case in 2019.
Written by Gwyneth Hughes and directed by James Strong, the series was produced by Chris Clough for Little Gem and ITV Studios. Filming began in May 2023 and took place in Llandudno, Conwy, and Tatsfield, Surrey. Former member of the Business Select Committee Nadhim Zahawi had a small role, playing himself.
Journalist Nick Wallis, who has written extensively about the scandal, was a consultant on the series.
Although the series had been watched by an estimated 13.5 million people as of late-April 2024, ITV said it had made a loss of around £1 million on the production. Kevin Lygo, ITV's managing director of media and entertainment, partially blamed the lack of international appeal in the subject matter for these losses.
The series was shown on ITV1 from 1 to 4 January 2024, and was released in full on ITVX on the same date. In the United States, the series premiered on PBS's drama anthology Masterpiece in April 2024. In Australia, the series premiered in February 2024 on Channel Seven. In Germany and France the series was shown on Arte in March 2025 and was available on the Arte Mediathek until 24 June 2025.
Immediately after the final episode, ITV broadcast a documentary Mr Bates vs the Post Office: The Real Story.