Criminal Justice (2008– )

Stars:

Ben Whishaw, Maxine Peake, Ruth Negga

11 wins & 12 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Ben Whishaw	...	Ben Coulter (5 episodes, 2008)
Maxine Peake	...	Juliet Miller (5 episodes, 2009)
Ruth Negga	...	Melanie Lloyd (5 episodes, 2008)
Eddie Marsan	...	Saul (5 episodes, 2009)
Nadine Marshall	...	Norma Fredericks (5 episodes, 2009)
Steven Mackintosh	...	DI Chris Sexton (5 episodes, 2009)
Rupert Procter	...	Dominic Rose (5 episodes, 2009)
Denis Lawson	...	DCI Bill Faber (5 episodes, 2009)
Alice Sykes	...	Ella Miller (5 episodes, 2009)
Zoe Telford	...	Anna Klein (5 episodes, 2009)
Sophie Okonedo	...	Jack Woolf (5 episodes, 2009)
Pooky Quesnel	...	Alicia Rose (5 episodes, 2009)
Bill Paterson	...	Harry Box (4 episodes, 2008)
Con O'Neill	...	Ralph Stone (4 episodes, 2008)
Juliet Aubrey	...	Mary Coulter (4 episodes, 2008)
David Westhead	...	Barry Coulter (4 episodes, 2008)
Joe Dixon	...	Robert Lloyd (4 episodes, 2008)
Ian Peck	...	Milroy (4 episodes, 2008)
Madeleine Rakic-Platt	...	Kate Rose (4 episodes, 2009)
Jaye Griffiths	...	Helen Marlowe (4 episodes, 2008)
Richenda Carey	...	Judge Ira (4 episodes, 2008)
Kate Hardie	...	DS Flo Sexton (4 episodes, 2009)
Daren Elliott Holmes	...	Man at Petrol Station (4 episodes, 2008)
Sam Alexander	...	PC Simon Jeary (4 episodes, 2008)
Clara Onymere	...	PO Jill Laidlaw (4 episodes, 2009)
Pete Postlethwaite	...	Hooch (3 episodes, 2008)
David Harewood	...	Freddie Graham (3 episodes, 2008)
Nicholas Farrell	...	Painter (3 episodes, 2008)
Vineeta Rishi	...	Frances Kapoor (3 episodes, 2008)
John Hodgkinson	...	Rogers (3 episodes, 2008)
Johann Myers	...	Roland Roy (3 episodes, 2008)
Darrell D'Silva	...	Quick (3 episodes, 2008)
Craig Gazey	...	Flitcroft (3 episodes, 2008)
Bradley Gardner	...	Bright (3 episodes, 2008)
Blondell Taylor	...	Court Clerk (3 episodes, 2008)
Adam Deacon	...	Drug Dealer (3 episodes, 2009)
Ike Hamilton	...	PC Trussler (3 episodes, 2009)
Matthew Macfadyen	...	Joe Miller (3 episodes, 2009)
Warren Brown	...	PO Paul Gibby (3 episodes, 2009)
Michael Cochrane	...	Felix Crane (3 episodes, 2009)
Guy Henry	...	Nick Holloway (3 episodes, 2009)
Bob Mercer	...	Defendant (2 episodes, 2009)
Charlie Creed-Miles	...	Simon Ticehurst (2 episodes, 2008)
Seroca Davis	...	Lizzie Smith (2 episodes, 2008)
David Annen	...	Hugo Curry (2 episodes, 2008)
Grant Russell	...	Dr. Callaghan (2 episodes, 2008)
Dominic Letts	...	Charles Willis (2 episodes, 2008)
Garry Cooper	...	Ruddock (2 episodes, 2008)
Clare Burt	...	Nurse Hulme (2 episodes, 2008)
Toby Alexander	...	Joe Fontaine (2 episodes, 2008)
Judy Norman	...	Hart (2 episodes, 2008)
Jake Curran	...	Bracewell (2 episodes, 2008)
Christian Roe	...	John (2 episodes, 2009)
Uriel Emil Pollack	...	Doctor (2 episodes, 2009)
Alan McKenna	...	Sergeant Frank Cross (2 episodes, 2009)
Marie-France Alvarez	...	Carmen (2 episodes, 2009)
Daniel Betts	...	Prison Governor (2 episodes, 2009)
Keeley Forsyth	...	Jane Grady (2 episodes, 2009)
Davood Ghadami	...	Josh Hughes (2 episodes, 2009)
Helen Griffin	...	Katherine (2 episodes, 2009)
Hugh Hayes	...	Court Usher (2 episodes, 2009)
Jodie McNee	...	Angela (2 episodes, 2009)
Helen Schlesinger	...	Gillian Kent (2 episodes, 2009)
Marsali Stewart	...	PO Sam Brewer (2 episodes, 2009)
Ony Uhiara	...	Lola (2 episodes, 2009)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

tv mini series | male nudity | rear nudity

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Taglines:

One man's journey through the criminal justice system of Britain.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Also Known As:

Injustiça Criminal

Company Credits

Production Co:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

300 min 300 min (5 parts)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Remade as Criminal Justice (2013)

User Reviews

Fanfastic start, but later on seems to wander a little into sub-Dickensian territory

This mini-series hits the ground running, the first episode including the sea side scenes and part of the second are just fantastic, but then the drama engages in the ambitious task of analyzing whatever may or may not be wrong with the British penal and judicial system, I praise the intent, but to incorporate seamlessly and successfully this sort of concerns into a drama is not an easy task, we are promised some sort of rigorous examination, but instead of 'Oz' (brutal US prison drama), we get some sort of sub-Dickensian ambiguous horrors, where a lot is promised but very little delivered and there is always a little army of semi-benevolent Artful Dodgers and Fagins to save our hero's day, like Peter Postethwaite's Hooch 'the listener' and David Harewood's master criminal Freddie Graham, the latter does a really good job of injecting true menace in its role. We know we are entering Dickensian territory when Con O'Neill seedy lawyer complete with gotta, bandaged feet and perennial facial stubble appears on the scene, the irony is that he does a wonderful turn and steals every scene in which he appears, it is just that it feels like he had just been wandering out of a Great Expectation set to blunder into the wrong drama by mistake. In the last episode where all ideological concerns need to be shed to wind down the narrative the drama seem able to recreate some of the original dramatic tension of the first part. ON THE WHOLE Highly RECOMMENDED!