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Tom Bedford

The Jury: Murder Trial release date, premise and everything we know

Promotional artwork from The Jury: Murder Trial.

Just how foolproof really is the UK's court jury system? That's what new Channel 4 show The Jury: Murder Trial wants to find out.

The show is part legal drama, part historical re-enactment and part reality show, as two different groups of juries watch the exact same case and come to potentially different conclusions.

Here's what you need to know about The Jury: Murder Trial, before you watch it.

The Jury: Murder Trial release date

You'll be able to watch the first episode of The Jury: Murder Trial on Channel 4 at 9 pm on Monday, February 26, with subsequent episodes airing daily until Thursday, February 29.

Can't watch the show as it's broadcasted? You can use Channel 4's streaming service, inexplicably also called Channel 4, in order to watch it. Channel 4 (the streaming service) also lets you watch live TV from Channel 4 (the TV channel) so you can watch The Jury online this way if you'd like.

Not in the UK? There's no word on whether The Jury: Murder Trial will be made available elsewhere, so you'll have to use a VPN to watch Channel 4 from abroad.

The Jury: Murder Trial premise

In The Jury: Murder Trial, there are two juries of members of the public. They all come from different walks of life and have different backgrounds, some of which may give them unique bearings on events.

These two groups of people are shown a re-enactment of a real murder trial: the case of a man named John Risedale who was charged with the murder of his wife. Names, dates and locations are changed in the dramatization, but the rest is based on transcripts from the case.

Individually, these two juries will then decide on the fate of the defendant, using their own life experiences to decide the verdict.

Will the differing life experiences of each jury member sway the decision of the group? The Jury: Murder Trial aims to find out, with the legal experiment exploring how defendants' fates can be inexplicably tied to the life experiences of those who are picked to judge them.

It was filmed over ten days in a former courthouse in Essex.

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