The Innocence Project
The Innocence Project is a television drama series created by BBC Northern Ireland and first broadcast on BBC One on 9 November 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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 | Tim Phillips |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Paul Abbott Hilary Bevan-Jones |
| Producer | Kirstie MacDonald |
| Cinematography | Ian Adrian |
| Editors | Charles Alexander Fiona Colbeck |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production companies | Tightrope Pictures BBC Northern Ireland |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 9 November 2006 – 7 February 2007 |
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.