Criminal Justice (British TV series)

Criminal Justice
Genre	Thriller Drama Legal
Written by	Peter Moffat
Starring	Ben Whishaw (2008) Maxine Peake (2009)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	10
Production
Executive producer	Hilary Salmon
Producers	Pier Wilkie (2008) Steve Lightfoot (2009)
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	BBC Productions
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	30 June 2008 (2008-06-30) – 9 October 2009 (2009-10-09)
Related
The Night Of (2016) Criminal Justice (2019) One Ordinary Day (2021)
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Criminal Justice is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2008. Written by Peter Moffat, each five-episode series follows the journey of an individual through the justice system and was first broadcast over five successive nights on BBC One. The first series, first shown in 2008, starred Ben Whishaw as Ben Coulter, a young man who is accused of murder after a drunken and drug-filled night out, though is unable to remember committing the crime. It was directed by Otto Bathurst and Luke Watson. In 2009, the second series featured Maxine Peake as troubled housewife Juliet Miller whose husband was stabbed in their bed. Yann Demange and Marc Jobst directed the second series. The first series won two British Academy Television Awards for Best Drama Serial and Best Writer, three Royal Television Society Awards and an International Emmy. The first season has been re-made into an HBO miniseries The Night Of, starring John Turturro and Riz Ahmed.