How Channel 4's The Jury: Murder Trial went from pitch to screen
The Jury: Murder Trial was a gripping TV experiment: would two juries come to the same decision about a restaged trial – and, if they did, would it match the outcome of the real-life case?
Series 1, which played out over the final week of February last year on Channel 4, featured a case in which a man admitted killing his wife, but denied it was murder. It mixed drama – with actors playing the accused, witnesses and barristers in court – and documentary, with scenes in the jury rooms filmed like a reality show, using a fixed camera rig.