This show was fantastic, I sailed the seas to watch it, and was amazed at just how corrupt and far reaching this scandal is. I was equally amazed that, while I thought it should spur public sentiment, immediately after it airing in the UK, there was uproar all the way up the government to the PM, which seems to have gotten forward movement on compensation. The fact that so many postmasters lost their shops, their savings, and were imprisoned, on such a massive scale, with no one to stand up for them, against a faceless wall of government, and bureaucracy in this day and age is breathtaking. I cannot understand how this could have been allowed to happen past the first instances and revelations that the system was inherently flawed and insecure. So many ruined lives. Insane.
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You know it's free to watch on ITVX, right? It just has ads
You need TV licence, so no, not free.
Not for watching catch-up on ITVX. You do need a TV Licence for the BBC iPlayer, however.
I'm sure it'll bring in some awards too.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
ITV made a loss of about £1m on its agenda-setting drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, despite it being the UK's most-watched TV show of the year so far, the broadcaster has revealed.The four-part drama, which aired in January, showed the human toll on hundreds of sub-postmasters who were wrongly prosecuted for false accounting and theft due to faulty software.It sparked an outcry and led to plans for new legislation to clear their names.The series has been watched by 13.5 million people to date.But Kevin Lygo, ITV's managing director of media and entertainment, said: "Mr Bates has made a loss of something like £1m and we can't continually do this.
"Broadcasters are facing big financial pressures, and often rely on overseas channels or streamers buying the rights to show a programme to help recoup its budget.Last month, ITV said 12 foreign broadcasters had bought the Mr Bates drama.
But Mr Lygo said it wasn't sufficiently appealing to foreign viewers to break even.
"Another challenge for mainstream broadcasters is "getting enough audiences to turn up on the night" to watch a show, he said.Five or six years ago, a programme like Mr Bates would have been expected to attract a live audience around six or seven million.
The first episode of Mr Bates was watched by four million on the night, which is as "good as you get" now, he said.It went on to gather steam and viewers.
ITV followed the ratings success by announcing in February a drama about what it calls the "biggest health scandal" in British history, the contaminated blood scandal.
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