Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: suzeeq Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Selected programming for April 6-8, 2024 Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 08:22:59 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20240406230329.00004f9d@example.com> <20240407104717.0000736b@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 15:22:59 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="280017"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:EnK/Q32Oh9wU8Iy6s9eowV3VKAU= In-Reply-To: <20240407104717.0000736b@example.com> X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXCqNUzlHQ/09Ywi8tW5HM4OPzO1Xb5yYbgkZWUUBhe6N7hpgyf0e9tM4PGB0RAw== Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3660 Lines: 55 On 4/7/2024 7:47 AM, Rhino wrote: > On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 03:27:13 -0000 (UTC) > "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: > >> Rhino wrote: >>> Sat, 6 Apr 2024 17:36:38 -0400 Robin Miller >>> : >> >>>> Mr Bates vs The Post Office [new to US] (9 pm, PBS) >> >>>> Alan Bates (Toby Jones) was one of the 700+ sub-postmasters who >>>> were accused of stealing money from the British Post Office. In a >>>> 20-years long fight, he and his allies seek to prove faulty >>>> software was the real cause in this four-part miniseries from ITV. >> >>>> https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/mr-bates-vs-the-post-office/ >>>> >> >>>> https://www.metacritic.com/tv/mr-bates-vs-the-post-office/ >>>> [score 80] >> >>>> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27867155/ [rating 8.6] >> >>> A very interesting true story about how the British Post Office's >>> computer system, Horizon, literally ruined the lives of many >>> postmasters by driving them into bankruptcy, prison, or even suicide >>> in a few cases while the Post Office management covered up the >>> disgracefully bad system. It has been called the worst miscarriage of >>> justice in Britain in 200 YEARS. >> >>> If you like underdog stories like Erin Brockovich, you should enjoy >>> Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office. >> >> Let's not blame the system. Let's blame the high-level coverup. >> > Actually, the computer system was truly dreadful. I've been researching > it and, of the people that designed it, only 1 or 2 were actual capable > and competent and the rest ranged between borderline and awful. > Computer Weekly has dozens of articles on the subject from the past 20 > odd years that this scandal has been happening. I don't know how > comprehensible they would be to you without a computer background but > they stagger my imagination. > >> I saw the documentary some time back, which was fascinating. >> >> Isn't there also a movie? > > How long was this documentary that you saw? Mr. Bates vs The Post > Office has 4 hour long parts (45 minutes each minus the commercials). > Is that what you saw? If not, then I think Mr. Bates *is* the movie > you're talking about. (I assume the documentary featured interviews > with the actual participants in the events but Mr. Bates is essentially > a re-enactment of the events with actors in place of the real > participants, just as the Erin Brockovich movie was.) > I saw this miniseries too. Didn't think I'd like it, but I did.