In late June 2008, Channel 4 began showing trials for the series.
Shaw's play Saint Joan has much to say about war, show trials and varieties of fanaticism.
Starting in 1948, mass arrest and show trials began to take place against bishops and clergy.
The concept was to show trials in their entirety while experienced lawyers commented from the sidelines.
Zinoviev and his former supporters were charged with the murder and subjected to show trials before being executed.
Mr. Brill, who wants to show trials on cable television, said most witnesses would probably say no to cameras in the courtroom.
In a country without the semblance of an independent judiciary, anything less will lead to show trials.
The murder signaled the worst of the Soviet purges and show trials in the middle of the 1930's.
Republicans reply that some oversight hearings amount to show trials.