'Five Days', 'Criminal Justice' recommissioned

The BBC has recommissioned Five Days and Criminal Justice, reports Broadcast.

The two crime series will be produced and written by the original team, but their setting, cast and characters will all be different.

"The first Five Days took a murder that blew apart a community and came down at five different points in time to look at the different pressures on characters," said BBC series controller Kate Harwood. "The new series will do the same, but it's set in the north of England."

Discussing Criminal Justice, Harwood added: "A murder takes place in the first episode, raising a whole different set of questions to the first series."

The second series of Criminal Justice is due to air later this year, while the second Five Days is expected in early 2010.