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SCRIPTED 2024

I Fought the Law

Summerwater

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The extraordinary true story of one woman taking on the establishment There will be deaths by morning

Julie was only 22 when she died . Tragically , her mother , Ann , found Julie ’ s body concealed in the bathroom of her modest terraced house in January 1990 , 80 days after it was hidden behind the bath panel by her killer . Dissatisfied with the investigation , Ann challenged senior officers and applied pressure on the police to discover what had happened to her daughter and to prosecute the man who was guilty of her murder . Based on Ann Ming ’ s memoir , I Fought the Law is the heartbreaking , real-life story of a mother ’ s love , courage and determination to change the Double Jeopardy Law , and see her daughter ’ s murderer finally brought to justice following two mistrials .
Ann Ming : Sheridan Smith ( The Teacher , Four Lives , Cilla ) Writer : Jamie Crichton ( All Creatures Great and Small , The Last Kingdom , Grantchester ) Director : Erik Richter Strand ( The Crown , Behind Her Eyes , Valkyrien ) Producer : Mark Hedges ( The Rising , Time , Supacell ) Exec Producers : Liza Marshall , Charlotte Webber
Duration 4 x 1 hr
Hera Pictures for ITV , UK , in association with All3Media International
Set against the backdrop of a remote loch-side Scottish holiday cabin park and taking place over the course of one single rainy summer ’ s day , Summerwater looks at the simmering tensions between holidaymakers that eventually erupt into a devastating climax . Weaving together the lives of several families as they navigate unspoken conflicts , private dilemmas , and fleeting moments of beauty from their separate cabins , the series will take an unflinching but empathetic look at human nature across generations . Each episode will spotlight one or two of the ensemble of characters to build a subversive , often witty , and always riveting portrait of the nation on edge that is modern Britain .
Writer : John Donnelly ( The Assessment , Utopia , The Pass ) Director : Robert McKillop ( The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies , Then You Run , Guilt ) Producer : Jules Hussey ( Ralph & Katie , You Don ’ t Know Me , Guilt ) Exec Producer : Mike Ellen
Duration 6 x 1 hr
Freedom Scripted for Channel 4 , UK , in association with All3Media International
FORMAT AVAILABLE