Judge John Deed Series 5 - Episodes 1 - 4 [DVD]

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Deans, Jason (12 January 2007). "Viewers seek TV with better taste". Media Guardian . Retrieved 27 April 2007. Timms, Dominic (14 January 2005). "Sect investigation draws 2m to BBC2". Media Guardian . Retrieved 27 April 2007. Adalian, Josef (24 October 2004). " 'Law' man cases nets (Chernuchin adapting BBC's 'Deed' for NBC)". Variety. Reed Business Information . Retrieved 24 April 2007. Banks-Smith, Nancy (10 January 2001). "Tried and tested". Media Guardian (Guardian News and Media) . Retrieved 18 November 2007.

Claridge, Brian (2006). "Why actor Jenny Seagrove would hate to be a barrister". Le Magazine. Archived from the original on 8 February 2008 . Retrieved 24 November 2007. A mentally disabled man confesses to the murder of a young woman, but retracts his confession, leaving Deed perplexed. When Robert Hume takes a fraud case from Deed, Deed suspects his peer is involved and, despite the efforts of Channing and Rochester to dissuade him, decides to investigate further. As Deed's investigations run deeper, people close to him are drawn in, and even when his suspicions are confirmed, there is nothing Rochester is willing to do. Meanwhile, Jo begins a romantic relationship with Row Colemore.

Timms, Dominic (16 January 2006). "Shaw lays down the law". Media Guardian . Retrieved 27 April 2007. Staff (2006). "BBC detective series to be filmed in The Hague". Den Haag. Archived from the original on 12 February 2008 . Retrieved 24 November 2007. A never-successfully-convicted child sex abuser is killed while in prison, and the accused claims a defence of preventing future abuses. Jo meets Michael's real father, who wants to return to South Africa with her. Everard hears the case of an adopted child who raped his teacher. Deed risks his career by sleeping with a claimant.

Wells, Matt (28 November 2001). "ITV admits 'commercial' BBC cannot be beaten". Guardian Unlimited . Retrieved 27 April 2007. Deans, Jason (21 January 2005). "Bush proves a turn-off for 2". Media Guardian . Retrieved 27 April 2007. Staff writer (7 February 2006). "Dami judge warns jury". Manchester Evening News. M.E.N. Media . Retrieved 24 April 2007. Cozens, Claire (18 December 2001). "C4's Hood smothers BBC2 comedy". Media Guardian . Retrieved 27 April 2007.

The first series was released as a 3-disc set on 8 May 2006 and the second series as a 2-disc set on 12 February 2007. [36] [37] The third and fourth series were released on 14 January 2008 in a 5-disc set. [38] All the DVDs were published by 2 Entertain Video. A series 5 DVD was released on 8 February 2010, omitting the controversial fifth and sixth episodes. [39] A Series 6 DVD was released on 21 February 2011, which contained two double length episodes.

Keetch, Andrew. "Something Here". Music from the Movies. Archived from the original on 16 November 2006 . Retrieved 5 June 2007.Timms, Dominic (6 February 2006). "1.8m turn up for IT Crowd". Media Guardian . Retrieved 27 April 2007. Yes but it is fiction. In real life we will get bad judges who make bad decisions. We see it happen in news reports where people are up in arms over a reported case and they don't agree with the verdict. Deans, Jason (13 November 2002). "Green edges ahead in TV tussle". Media Guardian . Retrieved 27 April 2007. Deans, Jason (18 February 2005). "Appetite for slimming drama remains healthy". Media Guardian . Retrieved 27 April 2007. The factual accuracy of the series is often criticised by legal professionals and journalists; many of the decisions taken by Deed are unlikely to happen in a real court. The romanticised vision of the court system created by Newman caused a judge to issue a warning to a jury not to let the series influence their view of trials—referring to an episode where Deed flouts rules when called up for jury service. A complaint was made by a viewer about one episode claiming biased and incorrect information about the MMR vaccine, leading the BBC to unilaterally ban repeats of it in its original form. [1] All six series (with the exception of the two banned episodes from Series Five) have been released on DVD in the UK.

The series' creative interpretation of the law has led to a misconception by the public of what real law is like ( cf. CSI effect); in the second Damilola Taylor trial, the presiding judge warned the jury that if they copied Deed's actions in the then-recent episode " One Angry Man" (2006), in which Deed investigated a case and interviewed witnesses while sitting on a jury, they would "simply derail the whole process". [23] Critical reaction [ edit ]

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An MI5 informant is on trial for causing grievous bodily harm to his wife and Deed is pressured by the Lord Chancellor's Department and Police Commissioner Row Colemore to release the man, but Deed refuses without investigating the matter further. He conducts a Newton hearing, hearing evidence and acting as his own jury. This causes a clash with Sir Ian Rochester of the LCD (with whose wife Deed is having an affair). Deed also sits on the case of date rape against three men. Deans, Jason (30 January 2006). "Channel 4 toasts Big Brother success". Media Guardian . Retrieved 27 April 2007. Diana Hulsey (from "Health Hazard") takes her case against the mobile phone company forwards and asks Jo to adopt her son when she dies. Rochester and the Trade Secretary try to derail the case by planting child pornography on Deed's computer, leading the phone company not to settle after Diana dies and leaving Deed with a race to save his name. As Deed delves deeper and deeper into why funding for the soldier to sue the pharmaceutical company was withdrawn, he makes more and more sinister discoveries. It is then that the forces of reaction move against him to stop him any way they can.