Law & Order: UK - Series Eight
"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime, and the Crown Prosecution Service who prosecute the offenders."The cream of British acting talent are back together for the eighth series of the hugely successful 'Law & Order: UK'.
This is series eight of ITV's highly successful drama Law & Order: UK. It is a spin off from the massively successful Dick Wolf US drama, which was the first US show to be adapted to British television in 2009. Series seven, 2013, won its time slot for every episode reaching an average audience of 5.4 million viewers and a share of 21.3%.
Bradley Walsh was nominated for the National Television Awards TV Detective of the Year and is hugely popular as wry, loveable, worldly-wise DS Brooks.
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Ben Bailey Smith joins the cast as DS Brooks partner DS Joe Hawkins. Ben Bailey Smith is well known on the comedy circuit as rapper and stand up, Doc Brown. But since moving into acting, he's been a big success in Hunted and Midsomer Murders. |
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An array of guest stars including Helen Baxendale, Hattie Morahan, Joseph Millson, the late Roger Lloyd Pack, Colin Salmon, Roy Hudd, Christopher Fulford, Haydn Gwynne and Harriet Walter join the cast for this season.
Highlights of the new series include the death of a psychiatrist who specialises in violent juveniles and a hotel-room killing with plenty of blood, but without a body.
DS Ronnie Brooks, will meet his match in a drug dealer who repeatedly beats the justice system and in I Predict a Riot, he’ll be investigating other senior police colleagues after the skeleton of a black undercover copper is found in the boot of a car.
The series is produced by Jane Dauncey. The executive producers are Alison Jackson and Jane Featherstone for Kudos and Dick Wolf, creator and executive producer of Law & Order, for Wolf Films. It is a Kudos/Wolf Films/NBC Universal Production.
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Original Air Date
Wednesday 12 March 2014 |
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