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  1. Mr Bates vs. The Post Office: With Toby Jones, Monica Dolan, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Will Mellor. One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.

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    • 2024-04-07
    • Biography, Drama
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  2. 4 January 2024. (2024-01-04) 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 ...

  3. 6 days ago · The stories of the people caught up in the Post Office scandal inspired one of the landmark TV shows of recent years. Now, after the success of ITV's Mr Bates vs the Post Office, a new drama is ...

  4. Jan 1, 2024 · The former sub-postmistress was accused by the Post Office of taking £36,000 from the village shop she ran in Hampshire. She pleaded guilty to false accounting to avoid a jail sentence but the ...

  5. The series is based on the real-life British Post Office scandal in the late 1990s, when hundreds of subpostmasters and mistresses working up and down the UK were falsely accused of theft, fraud ...

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  6. To put it in terms of other popular shows and channels, Mr Bates vs The Post Office is the biggest drama across all channels since BBC's Line of Duty season 6 in 2021.

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  8. Jan 10, 2024 · But 25 years on from the first convictions for theft and fraud, it is the four-part ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office that has renewed mass public interest in the scandal like never before.

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