In adapting Accused for an American audience, showrunner and executive producer Howard Gordon saw an opportunity to explore the grey areas of the justice system. “The world has gotten so polarized and weaponized, and the show really was designed to sort of explore the messy middle, that we’re all kind of struggling to find — the nuances that no one seems to be interested in anymore,” he said during Deadline’s Contenders TV panel on Sunday.
Accused, which is adapted from a British television series of the same name, is a crime anthology that follows a new defendant in each episode.
The episode starts with a character accused of a crime before taking viewers back through what happened, asking the difficult questions about whether the circumstances warrant the consequence they’re facing. RELATED: The Contenders TV – Deadline’s Full Coverage Gordon was joined on stage by Michael Chiklis, who stars in an episode and directs another, as well as director Marlee Matlin and actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
Each spoke about their decision to be involved in the show, which they agreed was an easy one. “When [Howard] came to me with the pilot script, I was just knocked out by the script.
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