Ripper Street

72
Metascore
2012-2016
5 seasons
BBC America
Suspense, Drama
TV-MA

A new drama set in the East End of London in 1889 during the aftermath of the Jack The Ripper murders. The infamous H Division--the police precinct charged with keeping order in the district of Whitechapel--is in a chaotic state trying to keep order after a tumultuous time for London and reported infamously worldwide.

72
Metascore
2012-2016
5 seasons
BBC America
Suspense, Drama
TV-MA

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Amazon Revives Ripper Street for Season 3

Amazon has given Ripper Street new life: The website has revived the once-canceled BBC show for a third season, TVGuide.com has learned.

Wed, Feb 26, 2014

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Mon, Sep 16, 2013

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Mon, Jan 21, 2013

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The Monday Playlist: Killers Afoot on The Following and Bones

Saturday night, BBC America introduced Ripper Street, a 19th-century procedural haunted by the grisly barbarism of Jack the Ripper. Now comes Fox's much scarier, infinitely more graphic The Following (Monday, 9/8c), a gruesomely chilling no-holds-barred thriller that owes a morbid debt to the macabre imaginings of Edgar Allan Poe.

Mon, Jan 21, 2013

The Monday Playlist: Killers Afoot on The Following and Bones

Forget Jack the Ripper! Ripper Street Tackles Other Victorian Murders

Despite the show's name, don't expect to see Jack the Ripper cases play a big part on Ripper Street.That's because the new BBC America crime drama, which kicks off Saturday at 9/8c, takes place in 1889, a good six months after the last murder was attributed to the notorious serial killer. "The whole idea for us setting out on this journey was to really try and actually discard Jack the Ripper, at least in terms of wondering after who he was and trying to catch him..."

Sat, Jan 19, 2013

Forget Jack the Ripper! Ripper Street Tackles Other Victorian Murders

The Weekend Playlist: Ripper Street, Fringe Finale, SNL's Silver Lining

Evil casts a long shadow over BBC America's promising new thriller Ripper Street (Saturday, 9/8c). Set amid the grimy slums of London's Whitechapel district in the immediate wake of Jack the Ripper's reign of slaughter, this absorbing 19th-century procedural depicts police work complicated by widespread public panic that each new murder might herald the return of the phantom fiend.

Fri, Jan 18, 2013

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