Law & Order: UK

Name: Law & Order: UK
Genre: Drama, Suspense
Released: February 23, 2009
Rating: 81
Cast: Peter Davison, Bradley Walsh, Georgia Taylor, Paterson Joseph, Sharon Small

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ITV1 | BBC America | ITV | 13R | Release Date: February 23, 2009

Starring: Peter Davison, Bradley Walsh, Georgia Taylor, Paterson Joseph, Sharon Small, Dominic Rowan, Ben Bailey Smith

Summary: The longest-running crime series in U.S. television history has made its way across the pond for a UK reworking. Series creator Dick Wolf has given Law & Order a makeover-for fans in the UK. Law & Order: UK sets out to retain the grittiness of the original series, but be uniquely British.

The show commenced broadcast in 2009 and is notThe longest-running crime series in U.S. television history has made its way across the pond for a UK reworking. Series creator Dick Wolf has given Law & Order a makeover-for fans in the UK. Law & Order: UK sets out to retain the grittiness of the original series, but be uniquely British.

The show commenced broadcast in 2009 and is not to be confused with the 1978 crime drama Law and Order.… Expand

Creator: Dick Wolf and Dick Wolf

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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Randee Dawn

Season 1 Review: UK remakes the script in its own, veddy British image and comes up with a vibrant, layered, insightful look at how the system breaks down no matter what the metropolis. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Season 1 Review: This is classic Law & Order through and through, where only the wigs worn in court and the accents are significantly different. The London environs evoke the urban New York feel, and the cast here is top-notch, refreshingly reintroducing us to the notion of a lead detective who's been around the block a few times. Read full review

Mary McNamara

Season 1 Review: For those Americans who have fallen through some wormhole and have never seen "Law & Order," the British version is as good a place to start as any--Walsh, Bamber and Agyeman in particular deliver fine performances. And those put off by the new "Law & Order: Los Angeles" or just jonesing for the good old days, will no doubt find a trip to London positively...brilliant. Read full review

Rob Owen

Season 1 Review: Aside from a few head-scratcher terms (GBH = "grievous bodily harm"), lawyers and judges wearing white wigs while in court (the judge in the premiere looks like she's got a poodle on her head) and occasionally impenetrable accents, Law & Order: UK should be remarkably familiar to fans of the original series. Read full review

Troy Patterson

Season 1 Review: The writing is as crisp as Brooks' perfect raincoat, and the partners share a father-son chemistry unseen elsewhere in the franchise, and anyone exhibiting the faintest traces of Anglophilia will delight to see the crown prosecutor and the defense counsel talking trash in the changing room while donning and doffing their barristers' wigs. Read full review

Ellen Gray

Season 1 Review: Accents (and a few updates) aside, this is one exported L&O that plays as if it never left. Read full review

Lesley Smith

Season 1 Review: To viewers new to the franchise, L&O: UK might prove a fine introduction. For dedicated watchers of the original, it might function as a kind of recap of the "best of" episodes from the series' entire life. But for the truly addicted, it will always be a paler, politer, well-bred echo of the Real Thing, better left on the side of the Atlantic where it originated. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 8

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  Air Date: March 12, 2014
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  S8:E8. Repeat to Fade
  Air Date: June 11, 2014
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  S8:E7. Hard Stop
  Air Date: April 23, 2014
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  S8:E6. Bad Romance
  Air Date: April 16, 2014
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  S8:E5. Customs
  Air Date: April 9, 2014
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  S8:E4. Pride
  Air Date: April 2, 2014
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  S8:E3. I Predict a Riot
  Air Date: March 26, 2014
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  S8:E2. Safe from Harm
  Air Date: March 19, 2014
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  S8:E1. Flaw
  Air Date: March 12, 2014
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  Air Date: July 14, 2013
Season 6

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  Air Date: January 6, 2012
Season 5

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  Air Date: July 10, 2011
Season 4

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  Air Date: March 21, 2011
Season 3

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  Air Date: September 9, 2010
Season 2

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  Air Date: January 11, 2010
Season 1

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  Air Date: February 23, 2009