PBS MasterpieceThe story of 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.
This Sunday the PBS British-import series “Masterpiece” brings to American audiences the four-part “Mr. Bates vs The Post Office,” which caused a sensation when it was broadcast in January ... “Mr. Bates” has aspects of a legal drama, and…
Toby Jones in Mr Bates vs the Post Office: ‘a homage to quiet fortitude’. ITV. In this intricate story (technical bugs, remote access, cover-ups), even the hard-won court victory that enabled people to quash unfair convictions proves…
TV reviewTelevision.Toby Jones stars as the titular Alan Bates, whose post office is adorned with a “Justice for Post Office Victims” banner from the very start. Over 20 years, he becomes a dogged organiser of those falsely accused of…
