Court is in session. The judge enters; the attendees rise. All eyes are on the defendant – but in ITVX’s new series The Twelve (imported from Australian TV channel Foxtel, and adapted from the Belgian series of the same name), the camera pans sideways and fixes on the jury instead. For in this show – directed by The Tourist’s Daniel Nettheim – it is the jurors that are the main focus, rather than the case itself. Oh, and Sam Neill, as one of the lawyers.
As they should, our protagonists comprise people of all ages, genders and races – but they’re all united, it seems, in having perfectly awful private lives.
