New Street Law - The Complete First Season

 "New Street Law (2006) ... John Hannah ... Koch Vision"
Koch Vision and BBC presents "NEW STREET LAW" (2006) (466 mins/Color) (Dolby Digital) --- Koch Vision collects all eight one-hour episodes of the first season of "New Street Law" onto a three-disc box set. The discs are housed in a three-panel digipak that slips into a glossy cardboard cover. Discs One and Two contain three episodes each (there are no episode titles); Disc Three contains the final two episodes --- Follow John Hannah's New Street Law, set in Manchester's legal community, follows the exploits, competitiveness and legal cases of two rival law firms of barristers that both have very different attitudes to justice --- The cast is outstanding, the writing is sharp and the direction is excellent.

Under the production staff of:
Julian Holmes - Director
David Skynner - Director
Emma Bodger - Director
G.F. Newman - Producer
Matthew Bird - Producer
Matthew Hall - Co-Producer/Screenwriter

Story line and plot, New Street Law is a British television legal drama series produced by Red Production Company in association with One-Eyed Dog Ltd for BBC One --- The series was created by G. F. Newman and Matthew Hall, and stars an ensemble cast headed by John Hannah and Paul Freeman. Hannah and Freeman play Jack Roper and Laurence Scammel respectively, two barristers heading rival chambers in Manchester --- Roper's chamber works in defence, while Scammel--Roper's one-time mentor--works for prosecution --- A large supporting cast play members of Roper and Scammel's teams.

the cast includes
John Hannah ... Jack Roper
Paul Freeman ... Laurence Scammel QC
John Thomson ... Charlie Darling
Lisa Faulkner ... Laura Scammel
Chris Gascoyne ... Al Ware
Penny Downie ... Honor Scammel
Lara Cazalet ... Annie Quick
Jayne Ashbourne ... Sally Benn
Lee Williams ... Joe Stevens
Don Warrington ... Judge Ken Winyard

BIOS;
1. John Hannah
Date of Birth: 23 April 1962 - East Kilbride, Scotland, UK
Date of Death: Still Living

2. Paul Freeman
Date of Birth: 18 January 1943 - Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Date of Death: Still Living

3. John Thomson
Date of Birth: 1969 - Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
Date of Death: Still Living

4. Lisa Faulkner
Date of Birth: 1973 - England, UK
Date of Death: Still Living

The first series aired in May and June 2006 in a pre-watershed timeslot on BBC One --- The second series was moved to 9 p.m. Low ratings saw the last two episodes moved to a 10.40 p.m. timeslot --- In July 2007, the cancellation of the series was announced --- This left an unresolved cliffhanger from the second series, with the audience left unaware of whether Jack survived a car crash.

Great job by Koch Vision --- looking forward to more high quality titles from the BBC Collection film market --- order your copy now from Amazon or Koch Vision where there are plenty of copies available on DVD, stay tuned once again for top notch releases --- where they are experts in releasing long forgotten films and treasures to the collector.

Total Time: 466 mins on DVD ~ Koch Vision KOCV-6466 ~ (12/04/2007) February 28, 2008

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