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Summary The longest-running crime series in U.S. television history has made its way across the pond for a UK reworking. Series creator Dick Wolf has given Law & Order a makeover-for fans in the UK. Law & Order: UK sets out to retain the grittiness of the original series, but be uniquely British. The show commenced broadcast in 2009 and is no...

  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • ITV1
  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • ITV1

Law & Order: UK

8 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Feb 23, 2009
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
81
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 51 User Ratings
7.3
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Summary The longest-running crime series in U.S. television history has made its way across the pond for a UK reworking. Series creator Dick Wolf has given Law & Order a makeover-for fans in the UK. Law & Order: UK sets out to retain the grittiness of the original series, but be uniquely British. The show commenced broadcast in 2009 and is no...

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
81
86% Positive
6 Reviews
14% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
81
86% Positive
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14% Mixed
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90
For those Americans who have fallen through some wormhole and have never seen "Law & Order," the British version is as good a place to start as any--Walsh, Bamber and Agyeman in particular deliver fine performances. And those put off by the new "Law & Order: Los Angeles" or just jonesing for the good old days, will no doubt find a trip to London positively...brilliant.
By Mary McNamara FULL REVIEW
90
UK remakes the script in its own, veddy British image and comes up with a vibrant, layered, insightful look at how the system breaks down no matter what the metropolis.
By Randee Dawn FULL REVIEW
90
This is classic Law & Order through and through, where only the wigs worn in court and the accents are significantly different. The London environs evoke the urban New York feel, and the cast here is top-notch, refreshingly reintroducing us to the notion of a lead detective who's been around the block a few times.
By Matt Roush FULL REVIEW
80
The writing is as crisp as Brooks' perfect raincoat, and the partners share a father-son chemistry unseen elsewhere in the franchise, and anyone exhibiting the faintest traces of Anglophilia will delight to see the crown prosecutor and the defense counsel talking trash in the changing room while donning and doffing their barristers' wigs.
By Troy Patterson FULL REVIEW
80
Aside from a few head-scratcher terms (GBH = "grievous bodily harm"), lawyers and judges wearing white wigs while in court (the judge in the premiere looks like she's got a poodle on her head) and occasionally impenetrable accents, Law & Order: UK should be remarkably familiar to fans of the original series.
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW
80
Accents (and a few updates) aside, this is one exported L&O that plays as if it never left.
By Ellen Gray FULL REVIEW
60
To viewers new to the franchise, L&O: UK might prove a fine introduction. For dedicated watchers of the original, it might function as a kind of recap of the "best of" episodes from the series' entire life. But for the truly addicted, it will always be a paler, politer, well-bred echo of the Real Thing, better left on the side of the Atlantic where it originated.
By Lesley Smith FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 51 User Ratings
7.3
73% Positive
37 Ratings
8% Mixed
4 Ratings
20% Negative
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20% Negative
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Production Company:
  • Kudos Film and Television
  • Wolf Films
  • NBC Universal Television
  • Universal Media Studios (UMS)
Initial Release Date: Feb 23, 2009
Number of seasons: 8 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

TV Choice Awards UK
• 3 Nominations
GLAAD Media Awards
• 1 Nomination
TV Quick Awards, UK
• 1 Nomination

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