Network: BBC America
Episodes: 37 (hour)
Seasons: Five
TV show dates: January 19, 2013 — TBD
Series status: Ending
Performers include: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Charlene McKenna, Amanda Hale, Jonathan Barnwell, David Wilmot, and David Dawson.
TV show description:
This dramatic TV show begins in April 1889 in London — six months after the last Jack the Ripper killing. H Division is responsible for policing one and a quarter square miles of East London, a district with a population of 67,000 poor and dispossessed and also filled with factories, rookeries, chop shops, brothels and pubs.
The men of H Division had hunted Jack the Ripper and failed to find him. When more women are murdered on the streets of Whitechapel, the police begin to wonder if the killer has returned.
To investigate the killings, calm and meticulous Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) and his troubled right-hand-man, Detective Sergeant Bennett Drake (Jerome Flynn), team up with Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg), a US Army surgeon and a former Pinkerton detective who’s an expert in the world of early forensics.
They cross paths with Tenter Street brothel madam Long Susan (MyAnna Buring). She and Jackson came to London from America and both reside at the brothel. Their relationship has become strained due to Jackson’s attraction to one of Long’s most profitable girls, Rose Erskine (Charlene McKenna). Rose longs to break free from her role in Whitechapel and travel the world.
Despite her husband’s reservations, Reid’s once-happy wife — Emily Reid (Amanda Hale) — is determined to make a new life by helping the fallen women of Whitechapel though she’s still troubled by a terrible family tragedy. Meanwhile, sensationalist newspaperman Fred Best (David Dawson) knows a dark secret about the Reids’ sorrow.
Episode #37 — Occurrence Reports
Reid tries to bring Augustus Dove to justice and make his peace in Whitechapel.
First aired: TBD
What do you think? Do you like the Ripper Street TV series? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a sixth season?
Why do they cancel a show without any warning. I was all set to watch Ripper in my local area and NOTHING! Please at least have some “closure” to the show. All of the actors were of quality caliber. Why oh why do people who are in charge, feel they know better than the audience?
It is a shame quality shows like Ripper and Copper are canceled!!!
I had looked up Michael on IMDB, after seeing him in a movie and it led me to the Ripper, where I caught the 3rd episode of the show, & I was hooked. I had to go into “on Demand” & watch the 1st two! I started DVR’ing every episode, so I could watch it more than 1x. I DON’T believe the show should be cancelled: there are many underlying stories & messages in the show if you look for them. The acting is excellent and if the BBC does NOT get good reviews or high ratings in Great Britain,… Read more »
I can’t believe they’re going to cancel this show! are you mad, characters are different and lots of varied story lines. I hope you don’t replace it with the same old drivel! I pay my t.v license for good t.v as there is very little I watch on ordinary tele tend to watch lots of sky shows as don’t like the soaps. the only ones I watch are dramas and now your getting rid of one of the good ones! unbelievable get a grip BBC.
Please renew this series I love it the acting is suberb and I enjoy all the cast.Please do not cancel.Denise Samuel.
not much quality drama on tv now…bbc just want to turn out same old
repeats and cheap celebrity drivel.
It is a great show. BBC is making a mistake over a slow start. The time slot was wrong. Change it and give this quality series with superb characters a chance. What can we do to get the BBC network to renew the series?
BBC just announced RS has been cancelled!
no please don’t finish it,love the stories the characters really really good!!!
Please keep this show going. We love it!
Love the show I hope it gets renewed. Love the unique old times but modern shows. It’s a shame if you let this cancel.
positively awesome.
Absolutely love this show — please renew!!! Some of the trash on TV today isn’t worth the air time it gets. When great shows like this come along, people with some intelligence prefer watching shows like this then reality “junk”!!!!
LOVE THE SHOW. PLEASE RENEW.
LOVE THIS SHOW!!! PLEASE RENEW!
bring more eposdes great show love English programs they rule