BAFTA winning BBC series returns to TV screen after 10 years - and it airs tomorrow

Hit BBC bid Life and Death Row is backmost with 3 marque caller episodes, 10 years since it was past connected TV screens, and it is airing soon

A fashionable BBC bid is returning to TV screens with caller episodes, 10 years aft it past aired.

Life and Death Row volition beryllium backmost connected BBC Three and iPlayer connected Tuesday 21 January with 3 marque caller episodes. The BAFTA winning bid archetypal premiered backmost successful March 2014 and proved to beryllium hugely fashionable with TV fans.

The amusement tells the stories of inmates connected decease enactment and however superior punishment impacts lives successful America. Three inmates volition prima successful the caller 60-minute episodes of Life and Death Row, including Ivan Cantu, who was executed successful 2024 aft being convicted of treble murder.

The synopsis reads: "Examining the contented of superior punishment successful a dramatically altered America, aged certainties nary longer clasp successful a divided federation grappling with an uncertain governmental scenery and a world dominated by the influences of personage culture, societal media and polarisation.

"Through 3 new, observational films, the bid goes wrong the cases of decease enactment prisoners facing the eventual punishment successful precise modern settings – from 1 attempting to beryllium his innocence with a podcast and personage backing from the likes of Kim Kardashian, to different facing the decease punishment astatine trial, successful a authorities wherever a unanimous assemblage ballot is nary longer required."

Life and Death Row for BBC Three and iPlayer is made by BBC Studios’ Documentary Unit. It was commissioned by Clare Sillery, BBC Head of Commissioning Documentaries and Fiona Campbell, Controller, BBC iPlayer and Youth Audiences. The Series Director is Stuart Bernard and the Executive Producer is Kirsty Cunningham. The BBC Commissioning Editor is Emma Loach.

Series 1 of Life and Death Row told the stories Richard Cobb, Anthony Haynes, Guy Heinze, Jr., Robert Lynn Pruett and Robert Garza. The 2nd series, which aired successful 2016, featured Daniel Lee Lopez, Shawn Ford Jr., Austin Myers, Timothy Moseley, and Willie Tyrone Trottie.

The 3rd play took connected a antithetic format, arsenic it was online-only. Titled Love Triangle, it consisted of 8 abbreviated episodes recounting the probe and proceedings of the execution of Heather Strong.

Life and Death Row volition beryllium disposable to ticker via BBC Three and iPlayer connected 21 January astatine 9pm. Previous bid are disposable to watercourse connected iPlayer.