Mr Bates vs The Post Office
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| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Gwyneth Hughes |
| Directed by | James Strong |
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| Theme music composer | Vince Pope |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 4 |
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| Producer | Chris Clough |
| Running time | 3 hours 10 minutes |
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| Network | ITV |
| Release | 1 January – 4 January 2024 |
Mr Bates vs The Post Office is a four-part British television drama series for ITV, written by Gwyneth Hughes, directed by James Strong and starring an ensemble cast led by Toby Jones. The series is a dramatisation of the British Post Office scandal, a miscarriage of justice in which hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted (privately and publicly) for theft, false accounting or fraud due to a faulty computer system called Horizon. It was broadcast on four consecutive days from 1 January 2024.
The series won a Peabody Award at the 85th ceremony. It won the 2025 BAFTA award for Limited Drama