There's Nothing New Under the Sun Part LCMXVII: Fox TV's "innovative" new reality show The Jury is, as 1970s viewers of lunchtime Granada TV will immediately recognize, just a warmed-up crib (more or less) of Crown Court.
Posted by Alan Allport at June 8, 2004 11:52 AMAs someone who confesses to watching and rather enjoying Crown Court I beg to differ. Crown Court was all about the presentation of evidence and the cross examination of witnesses. We never went inside the jury room and the jury only ever featured as a collective and never as a cast of individual characters - but this seems to be be the main point of this new show -
"Each episode of “The Jury” is centered on the disposition of one crime, and is anchored by the back-and-forth of the deliberating dozen, whose personalities and quirks start to become evident to us the moment they sit down, if not before."
If this is derivative then surely the original is the movie Twelve Angry Men see http://www.filmsite.org/twelve.html
Paul Stables
Posted by: Paul Stables at June 8, 2004 04:06 PMPoint taken. Turns out it isn't even a reality show as I'd assumed, so never mind.
Posted by: Alan Allport at June 8, 2004 06:29 PMI found the music to Crown Court on a compilation CD of tv music a couple of years back; it is called 'Distant Hills' and brings wet seventies lunchtimes off school right back with considerable clarity.
Posted by: ROBBIE at June 10, 2004 02:53 AM