Will Mellor talks new ITV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office
He danced his way into the semi-finals on last year’s Strictly, but now Will Mellor is moving on from the ballroom. He joins us on the sofa this morning to talk about retelling one of the most widespread miscarriages of justice in UK history, in new ITV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office.
We’ll also be finding out if he plans to get his dancing shoes back out in time for New Year’s Eve, and why we might see him back on the Cobbles very soon…
Mr Bates Vs The Post Office tells the story of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud, and false accounting due to a defective IT system.
Many of the wronged workers were prosecuted, some were imprisoned for crimes they never committed, and their lives were irreparably damaged by the scandal.