The Innocence Project (BBC TV series)
| The Innocence Project | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Legal drama |
| Created by | Oliver Brown |
| Written by | Stephen Brady Ed McCardie Paul Logue Abigail Harvey |
| Directed by | Bill Anderson Peter Hoar Morag Mackinnon |
| Starring |
Lloyd Owen Christine Bottomley Ruth Bradley Stephen Graham Oliver James Luke Treadaway Shelley Conn |
| Composer(s) | Tim Phillips |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8(list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Paul Abbott Hilary Bevan-Jones |
| Producer(s) | Kirstie MacDonald |
| Cinematography | Ian Adrian |
| Editor(s) | Charles Alexander Fiona Colbeck |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Tightrope Pictures BBC Northern Ireland |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 9 November 2006 – 7 February 2007 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Innocence Project is a television drama series created by BBC Northern Ireland and first broadcast on BBC One on November 9, 2006. The series follows the work of Professor Jon Ford (Lloyd Owen), who sets up The Innocence Project, peopled entirely by a hand-picked group of law students. They take on cases pro bono that no-one else will handle, or those that have been forgotten or given up on, working for clients that would otherwise have no hope, and who have possibly been wrongly convicted. The series is based on a British version of the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal clinic in the United States.
The Innocence Project fared particularly poorly for a BBC primetime drama, and received a number of negative reviews. In an unusual move for the BBC, the series was pulled from the schedules mid-run, and the final three episodes were not broadcast until over a month later. The BBC subsequently confirmed that the series would not be renewed. Notably, the series has also never been issued on DVD.
The first and best-known Innocence organization is based at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University. It directly serves defendants who can conclusively be proven innocent by DNA testing of evidence done after their convictions. The clinic was founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. In addition to working on behalf of those who may have been wrongfully convicted of crimes throughout the United States, the Innocence Project performs research and advocacy related to the causes of wrongful convictions. The Innocence Project is a member of the recently formed Innocence Network, which brings together a number of innocence organizations from across the United States.
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