After its British premiere on ITV back in January—during which it amassed an average of 9.8m viewers across its four episodes in the UK, even beating the launch of Downton Abbey in 2010—the critically acclaimed drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office will be making its US TV debut tonight, April 7.
Led by BAFTA-winning actor Toby Jones, with Monica Dolan, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Alex Jennings, Ian Hart and Lia Williams rounding out the ensemble, the four-episode series details one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history, where hundreds of postmasters were wrongly accused of theft, false accounting and fraud due to a faulty computer system named Horizon. In the shockingly true David and Goliath-esque story, a group of those UK postmasters formed the Justice For Subpostmasters Alliance (JFSA) to expose the failures of Post Office. Jones portrays the group's founder, Alan Bates.
