Series synopsis
Bull is a British crime drama comedy television series that premiered on U&Gold on October 21, 2015. It ended on November 4, 2015. It was created by Phil McGraw, Paul Attanasio. It stars Robert Lindsay, Claudia Jessie, Maureen Lipman and Naz Osmanoglu.
Bull is a brand new comedy with a unique and quirky sense of humour, featuring the eponymous Rupert Bull (Robert Lindsay), a man who attempts to run his antiques shop aided and hampered in equal measure by his team of dysfunctional staff, Beverley (Maureen Lipman), Faye (Claudia Jessie) and Toby (Naz Osmanoglu).
Premise
Bull is a brand new comedy with a unique and quirky sense of humour, featuring the eponymous Rupert Bull (Robert Lindsay), a man who attempts to run his antiques shop aided and hampered in equal measure by his team of dysfunctional staff, Beverley (Maureen Lipman), Faye (Claudia Jessie) and Toby (Naz Osmanoglu).
Premise: He'll get you off.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Robert Lindsay as Rupert Bull
- Claudia Jessie as Faye
- Maureen Lipman as Beverley
- Naz Osmanoglu as Toby
Episodes
This series spans 6 seasons with 105 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 3 | October 21, 2015 | May 23, 2017 |
| Season 2 | 22 | September 26, 2017 | May 8, 2018 |
| Season 3 | 22 | September 24, 2018 | May 13, 2019 |
| Season 4 | 20 | September 23, 2019 | May 4, 2020 |
| Season 5 | 16 | November 16, 2020 | May 17, 2021 |
| Season 6 | 22 | October 7, 2021 | May 26, 2022 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
A Faberge Egg (1905) A Faberge egg goes missing so the team has to rustle up a replacement. |
October 21, 2015 |
| 2 |
A Fine Example of a Victorian Chess Set (1865) The opening of a new antiques emporium, Mumford and Sons, in Newby-on-Wye threatens the future of Rupert Bull Antiques especially as the staff are both helpful and knowledgeable. Rupert challenges his new rival to a duel by chess. |
October 28, 2015 |
| 3 |
A Collection of Mounted Deer Heads (1977-2005) Rupert inherits a collection of moldy deer heads from a rich Russian widow. Faye is sent out into the town to drum up some business, while Beverley has a word with the increasingly put-upon Toby about workers rights. |
November 4, 2015 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
School for Scandal When Bull joins the district attorney in a case against Kara Clayton, who claims she killed her billionaire husband in self-defense, tensions run high when he learns that his on-again, off-again romantic interest, Diana Lindsay, is defending the widow. Also, Chunk makes a decision about his future. |
September 26, 2017 |
| 2 |
Already Gone Bull impulsively agrees to have Benny represent Adam Harris, a young man charged with murder for helping his terminally ill girlfriend end her life, a decision which clashes with Benny's religious beliefs. |
October 3, 2017 |
| 3 |
A Business of Favors The DA's office asks Bull to assist them in their prosecution of a fraternity when a pledge accidentally drowns during a hazing incident, but his efforts may be derailed when the students close ranks to stonewall him. |
October 10, 2017 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Ground Beneath Their Feet Bull returns to work following his heart attack with a new rich client for the firm to represent: an insurance company being sued by a dying mother for denying coverage of her liver transplant. |
September 24, 2018 |
| 2 |
Jury Duty Bull finds himself serving jury duty while simultaneously mounting a defense for a woman on trial for killing her daughter's murderer. |
October 1, 2018 |
| 3 |
Excessive Force When the team consults for the NYPD on the defense of a police officer accused of excessive force in the shooting of an unarmed man, the social politics surrounding the case create tension within their own ranks. |
October 8, 2018 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Labor Days As Bull prepares for fatherhood, his work at TAC suffers without his top attorney, Benny, who quit in reaction to Bull's romantic reconnection to his ex-wife and Benny's sister, Isabella. In addition, the team faces a difficult time in court as they mount a defense for a young bartender on trial for involuntary manslaughter. |
September 23, 2019 |
| 2 |
Fantastica Voyage Bull sees a visionary whereas the federal government sees a con woman, when he helps the defense of a charismatic entrepreneur, Whitney Holland, who's accused of defrauding investors in her seemingly groundbreaking water filtration system company. As the trial gets underway, Bull focuses on selecting jurors whose belief systems allow them to see his client as a dreamer who never meant criminal intent. |
September 30, 2019 |
| 3 |
Rectify Benny's previous career with the District Attorney's office comes into focus when Chunk, working with his law professor's legal clinic, aims to get a new trial for Eddie Mitchell, a man he believes was wrongfully convicted of triple homicide by a prosecution team that included Benny. |
October 7, 2019 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
My Corona Bull and the TAC team struggle to adjust to a virtual court system as they weather the New York City shutdown due to the coronavirus. |
November 16, 2020 |
| 2 |
The Great Divide The TAC team experiences a conflict of interest in court when Benny represents the plaintiff and Chunk represents the defendant in the same civil suit, where a mother sues a young artist she deems responsible for her daughter's death. |
November 23, 2020 |
| 3 |
Prison Break Bull assists Chunk as he represents a convict from his law school's legal aid clinic, a woman accused of killing a guard while trying to escape during a prison transport. While the prosecution alleges the woman shot the guard as she tried to flee, Chunk argues that she is being falsely accused by a guard who attempted to sexually assault her during the transport. |
November 30, 2020 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Gone Bull and the TAC team must call upon all their collective experience to locate Bull's kidnapped daughter, and the abductor warns them not to go to the police. As Bull works to build the most important psych profile of his life, he begins to suspect the captor is someone connected to his past. |
October 7, 2021 |
| 2 |
Espionage TAC's defense strategy for a client on trial for going public with classified governments under the Espionage Act is compromised when Bull experiences emotional turmoil following his daughter's kidnapping. As Bull grows increasingly agitated, the team faces a difficult time in court when federal law leaves them unable to tell jurors their client's motive for leaking the sensitive information. |
October 14, 2021 |
| 3 |
Bull Undone Bull contends with a biased jury pool when TAC represents a man charged with his high school girlfriend's murder after a docuseries depicts him as the prime suspect in the decades-old homicide. |
October 21, 2021 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | U&Gold |
|---|---|
| First aired | October 21, 2015 |
| Last aired | November 4, 2015 |
| Runtime | 22 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Wednesday at 22:00:00 |