Law & Order: UK
Law & Order: UK (stylized as Law & Order | UK) is a British police procedural and legal television programme broadcast from 2009 to 2014 on ITV, adapted from the American series Law & Order. Financed by the production companies Kudos Film and Television, Wolf Films, and Universal Television, the series originally starred Bradley Walsh, Freema Agyeman, Jamie Bamber, Ben Daniels, Harriet Walter and Bill Paterson. Dominic Rowan, Georgia Taylor, Paul Nicholls, Ben Bailey Smith, Sharon Small, Peter Davison and Paterson Joseph joined the cast in later series. This is the first American drama television series to be adapted for British television, while the episodes are adapted from scripts and episodes of the parent series.
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| Created by | Dick Wolf |
| Written by | Various |
| Directed by | Various |
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| Opening theme | Law & Order London Theme |
| Ending theme | Law & Order London Theme |
| Composer | Andy Price |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 53 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producers |
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| Producers | Richard Stokes (series 1–6) Jane Hudson (series 7) Jane Dauncey (series 8) |
| Production locations | London, United Kingdom |
| Running time | 45–48 mins (without adverts) |
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| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 23 February 2009 – 11 June 2014 |
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| Law & Order (franchise) | |
Series 1 was broadcast in 2009. In June 2014, broadcaster ITV and producer Kudos issued a joint press release announcing that series 8 would be "the last to be transmitted for the foreseeable future".