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Mr Bates vs The Post Office is announced as ITV's biggest new drama in over a decade beating launch of hit show Downton Abbey... after it emerged Post Office 'tried to CHANGE' storyline of series
Mr Bates vs. the Post Office is ITV's biggest new drama in over a decade, beating the launch of hit show Downton Abbey in 2010, channel bosses have announced.
The four-part series tells the story of a long-running campaign to expose the Horizon IT system scandal, in which hundreds of Post Office staff were wrongfully accused of theft and fraud. The four-part series tells the story of a long-running campaign to expose the Horizon IT system scandal, in which hundreds of Post Office staff were wrongfully accused of theft and fraud(L-R: Julie Hesmondhalgh as Suzanne Sercombe, Toby Jones as Alan Bates, Monica Dolan as Jo Hamilton and Asif Khan as Mohammad Sabir) 'Aside from it being a ratings hit, dramatising the story with such a high calibre of British actors has reignited the campaign for justice nearly 25 years on, for a group of ordinary people - and the entire nation is behind them.'
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