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\n\t\tA crime drama has raced up the Netflix charts this week (Picture: ITV)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tA crime drama has raced up the Netflix charts this week (Picture: ITV)<\/p>\n
Netflix<\/a> viewers have rushed to watch<\/a> a legal drama from the man who created The Crown<\/a>.<\/p>\n First hitting screens in 2002, The Jury was the first TV show to ever be allowed to film inside the historic Old Bailey courthouse.<\/p>\n Before he was busy delving into the private lives of the Royal Family<\/a>, Peter Morgan penned this drama, which fans have called a \u2018compelling must-see\u2019.<\/p>\n The first season followed the killing of a teenage boy, who was stabbed 28 times on his way to school<\/a> one morning. After one of his classmates is charged with murder, a jury must decide his guilt.<\/p>\n \u2018The trial, which is engulfed in protests and media speculation, brings together 12 jurors who find themselves having to make a decision that the entire country is waiting for,\u2019 it was teased of the series.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tGet personalised updates on all things Netflix\t\t\t<\/p>\n Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro\u2019s TV Newsletter.<\/p>\n Sign up to our newsletter<\/a> and then select your show in the link we\u2019ll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you.<\/p>\n The jurors tasked with making a ruling included Charles, a young man who has left the seminary to search for his lost love; Elsie, an old lonely woman who is dying; Johnny, a recovering alcoholic; Jeremy, a once-wealthy family man who lost all his money when conned by a friend in a bad investment and Marcia, a single mother who is forced to let her mother back into her life during the trial.<\/p>\n \t\t The actors who played jury members included Gerard Butler, Helen McCrory, Stuart Bunce, Nicholas Farell and Tim Healy.<\/p>\n Over a decade later \u2013 in 2011 \u2013 it was followed by a second season.<\/p>\n This week both were added onto Netflix, with the show now one of the most watched shows in the UK, currently sitting on number 7 on the charts.<\/p>\n In 2010 the second season of The Jury was announced, with ITV describing the show as a \u2018character-based series which focuses on the everyday people who find themselves at the centre of one of the most controversial criminal re-trials of their time\u2019.<\/p>\n \t\t Standing alone from the events of the first season, the second follows the retrial of Alan Lane, who was convicted five years earlier of the murder of three women whom he\u2019d met through an Internet dating site.<\/p>\n The jurors include Paul Brierly, a single man looking after his mother; Katherine Bulmore, a teacher who has had an affair with a 17-year-old pupil; Tahir Takana, a Sudanese immigrant waiting to get a visa to join his brother in the US and Rashid, a quiet young man with Asperger\u2019s Syndrome.<\/p>\n The cast included Julie Walters, Sarah Alexander, Roger Allen, Danny Babington, Lisa Dillon and Jo Hartley.<\/p>\n Sharing their thoughts on the show online, viewers called it \u2018thought-provoking\u2019, \u2018compelling\u2019 and the \u2018perfect binge watch\u2019.<\/p>\n \t\t Speaking in 2011 Peter, who had gone on to work on movies including The Queen, Frost\/ Nixon and The Other Boleyn Girl, spoke about how another season came to fruition after a decade.<\/p>\n \u2018I had fun doing the original one and enjoyed it and missed it. I suddenly thought, \u201cI\u2019d like to do that again\u201d. There\u2019d been silence from ITV so I assumed they didn\u2019t want me to do another one, and I think maybe they thought because I was writing films I wouldn\u2019t want to do one,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n \u2018So, there was this misunderstanding.<\/p>\n \u2018But I said, \u201cFancy another one? Because I\u2019d really love to write one\u201d. And they said, \u201cSure\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n The Jury is streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n Got a story?<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk<\/a> entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff<\/a> page \u2013 we\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n \t\t\tComments Arrow Arrow![\"TELEVISION](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AD_73718038-e1b3.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe Jury was the first TV show ever allowed to film inside the Old Bailey (Picture: ITV)<\/p>\n![\"Television](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AD_74236486-8592.jpg\")
\n\t\tIt first aired in 2002 before returning to screens in 2011 (Picture: ITV)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-877245790.jpg\")
\n\t\tIts creator Peter Morgan went on to work on The Crown (Picture: Karwai Tang\/ WireImage)<\/p>\n
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