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British television legal drama series

Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC which was broadcast over three series on BBC One between 22 February and 31 March Created by Peter Moffat, the series follows the daily goings on of Shoe Lane Chambers and its members in their personal and professional lives.

Origin

The series' writer, Peter Moffat, also wrote the series Criminal Justice and North Square, as well as an episode of Kavanagh QC. Before the series started, Moffat said in an interview, "I wanted Silk to be full of politics and intrigue.

From my experience at the Bar, I felt life in chambers had all of those components, with big stories and lots of courtroom drama—but I wanted to make it as much about barristers and their life in chambers as about the trials".^[1]

Silk was commissioned by Jay Hunt, then-Controller of BBC One, and Ben Stephenson, BBC Controller of Drama Commissioning, and started filming in J