Mr Bates vs the Post Office: Season 1

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PBS | Season Premiere Date: April 7, 2024

Summary: Alan Bates (Toby Jones) was one of the 700+ sub-postmasters who were accused of stealing money from the British Post Office. In a 20-years long fight, he and his allies seek to prove faulty software was the real cause in this four-part miniseries.

[Premiered originally in the UK on ITV on 1 Jan 2024 and in the US as a part of PBS'sAlan Bates (Toby Jones) was one of the 700+ sub-postmasters who were accused of stealing money from the British Post Office. In a 20-years long fight, he and his allies seek to prove faulty software was the real cause in this four-part miniseries.

[Premiered originally in the UK on ITV on 1 Jan 2024 and in the US as a part of PBS's Masterpiece on 7 Apr 2024]… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

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i Gerard Gilbert

Mar 25, 2024

Stirring stuff, and seemingly like so much of our post these days, long overdue. Read full review

The Times Carol Midgley

Mar 25, 2024

Perhaps Hughes's main achievement is in making it so discomfiting to watch. It is still scarcely believable that this happened in modern Britain, that good people actually went to prison for things they hadn't done. Read full review

The Guardian Rebecca Nicholson

Mar 25, 2024

The Post Office scandal has been so long-running that it can feel as if the staggering injustice at the heart of it all has been lost in the dense forest of the details. This makes it human again, and simplifies the case for outrage that this was done to so many innocent people. Read full review

The Telegraph Jasper Rees

Mar 25, 2024

Jones, all cheer and steel, is simply perfect as the little man who proves undefeatable. Indeed, the many familiar faces all feel ideally cast, from Monica Dolan as Jo Hamilton, whose plain-as-a-pikestaff decency was weaponised against her, to Lia Williams as Post Office Ltd’s Paula Vennells. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

Apr 8, 2024

The sweet-faced Jones — if you loved him in “Detectorists” you should love him here, in a part not a million miles away — stars as Alan, the quietly stubborn leader of the resistance, and the hub that connects the series’ several stories. .... Above all, “Mr. Bates vs The Post Office” is an indictment of bureaucratic arrogance and the familiar reluctance of institutions to admit, and when admitted, to rectify, mistakes. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Barbara Ellen

Sep 10, 2024

It feels at times like being pounded by gigantic dialogue boulders of information. Even so, this is a staunch David and Goliath homage to quiet fortitude triumphing over corporate chicanery, and well worth anyone’s time. Read full review

The Independent Nick Hilton

Mar 25, 2024

Through odd creative decisions and the technical nature of the intrigue, Mr Bates vs the Post Office ends up being a human drama that could use a bit more drama. Read full review

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Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: April 7, 2024
- No episode information is currently available for this season