Ep 1/8
Sunday 30 December
9.00-10.00pm
BBC ONE
April 1889 - six months since the last Jack the Ripper killing. East London is emerging into a fragile peace, hopeful that this killer’s reign of terror might at last have run its course. Nowhere is this truer than in the corridors of H Division, the police precinct charged with keeping order in the chaos of Whitechapel. Its men hunted this maniac - and failed to find him.
Ripper Street is their story. A police procedural set in the teeming streets of the East End as it moves into the last decade of the 19th century. H Division was responsible for policing a relatively small area of just 1¼ square miles, yet into that space were packed some 67,000 people: a seething, bustling mass of the poor and dispossessed.
Between the factories, rookeries, chop shops and pubs that mark out this maelstrom moves Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) – a forward thinking detective haunted by a tragic past mistake. Accompanied by the ever loyal local brawn of Detective Sergeant Bennett Drake (Jerome Flynn) and the mercurial brilliance of the US Army surgeon and one-time Pinkerton detective, Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg), Reid seeks to bring justice to a world that is forever on the brink of mayhem.
Ripper Street is a fictionalised trek into the heart of a London borough living in the blood soaked aftermath of that forever anonymous killer. It is an investigative procedural about dedicated policemen for whom life – and crime – go on.
In the first episode of Ripper Street, a young woman is found brutally murdered, the hallmark signs of the Ripper upon her. One time H Division boss, Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline, believes it Jack’s return, but Reid – the precinct’s new master – suspects a different evil at work.
Inspector Edmund Reid - Matthew Macfadyen
Sergeant Bennet Drake - Jerome Flyn [sic]
Captain Homer Jackson - Adam Rothenberg
Long Susan - Myanna Buring
Emily Reid - Amanda Hale
Deborah Goren - Lucy Cohu
Rose - Charlene McKenna
Constable Dick Hobbs - Jonathan Barnwell
Sergeant Donald Artherton - David Wilmot
Fred Best - David Dawson
Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline - Clive Russell.
Source: BBC
Sunday 30 December
9.00-10.00pm
BBC ONE
April 1889 - six months since the last Jack the Ripper killing. East London is emerging into a fragile peace, hopeful that this killer’s reign of terror might at last have run its course. Nowhere is this truer than in the corridors of H Division, the police precinct charged with keeping order in the chaos of Whitechapel. Its men hunted this maniac - and failed to find him.
Ripper Street is their story. A police procedural set in the teeming streets of the East End as it moves into the last decade of the 19th century. H Division was responsible for policing a relatively small area of just 1¼ square miles, yet into that space were packed some 67,000 people: a seething, bustling mass of the poor and dispossessed.
Between the factories, rookeries, chop shops and pubs that mark out this maelstrom moves Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) – a forward thinking detective haunted by a tragic past mistake. Accompanied by the ever loyal local brawn of Detective Sergeant Bennett Drake (Jerome Flynn) and the mercurial brilliance of the US Army surgeon and one-time Pinkerton detective, Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg), Reid seeks to bring justice to a world that is forever on the brink of mayhem.
Ripper Street is a fictionalised trek into the heart of a London borough living in the blood soaked aftermath of that forever anonymous killer. It is an investigative procedural about dedicated policemen for whom life – and crime – go on.
In the first episode of Ripper Street, a young woman is found brutally murdered, the hallmark signs of the Ripper upon her. One time H Division boss, Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline, believes it Jack’s return, but Reid – the precinct’s new master – suspects a different evil at work.
Inspector Edmund Reid - Matthew Macfadyen
Sergeant Bennet Drake - Jerome Flyn [sic]
Captain Homer Jackson - Adam Rothenberg
Long Susan - Myanna Buring
Emily Reid - Amanda Hale
Deborah Goren - Lucy Cohu
Rose - Charlene McKenna
Constable Dick Hobbs - Jonathan Barnwell
Sergeant Donald Artherton - David Wilmot
Fred Best - David Dawson
Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline - Clive Russell.
Source: BBC
I'm so excited for this show. Can't wait.
ReplyDeleteSooo excited! :) Been waiting for this since those Olympic adverts in August!
ReplyDeleteOh this looks as good as Copper!
ReplyDelete8 episodes? That's not much of a commitment so I may check this out.
ReplyDelete8 episodes is longer than a usual new show gets, I guess because it's one they have done with BBCA. I've seen the first two, and they run at just over an hour, so I'm guessing they will be 90 mins with ads. It's pretty good imo, more Sherlock Holmes like than CBS have managed to make Elementary, lol.
ReplyDeleteI've not caught Copper, been meaning to give that a go too.
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