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?
Great series get back on cable
Please hurry!!!
Love the show. Cant wait to see more episodes.
I absolutely enjoy Ripper Street. It is a far better series than Copper.
The acting is good, the scenery looks fantastic, but what I genuinely enjoy is the dialogue.
I hope that the series is allowed to continue.
Please don’t cancel !
Renew it for as long as you can. It is an excellent show. One of the best. We watch it every week and record it if we have to be out. PLEASE. Keep it on. Copper is gone and so is Whitechapel. BBC does great dramas. We need more like them. Thank you.
Please keep Ripper Street, the show kept you interested and was good to watch, please renew!!
Being a retired cop,I found ripper street very
Sharp and extremely professional like and I hate to see it canceled please. Back on the air ASAP.
Please keep Ripper Street on TV. I love this show.
I really like Ripper Street and hope that it can continue. I purchased the first season and continue to enjoy watching it.
I love this show! Could not believe that it was cancelled and am very glad that the network changed their mind!
i love this show! so smart sharp and interesting please please bring it back!!!!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!! For reviving Ripper Street. It’s one of the best shows on television. Great acting, great stories. Wonderful sets. We never missed an episode, and will continue to watch it for years to come!
Oh please, please PLEASE renew Ripper Street! Emmitt and Miss Rose must find their way to each other! If Copper can’t come back at least let us have Ripper Street! We LOVE everything about it!
Ripper Street is an interesting and highly “plot developed” show. I enjoy watching it immensely and am glad it is staying on. I am American but enjoy British tv more than most US shows (way back to Poirot). Shows like Ripper Street, The IT Crowd, Downton Abbey, Being Human (UK), The Neighbors (with its British leads) keep watching television entertaining for us who crave originality, good writing, new ideas and a look into different cultures.
This is one of the most interesting shows I have seen in a long time – Downtown Abbey mixed with CSI and Low & Order SVU. I hope that BBC renews or perhaps a cable channel reaches out.
I hate that when the viewers are left hanging by the stations with no end to the previous episode. Why not allow some closure to the stores, so the viewers are not so disappointed. Same goes for the series “Coppers”. What on earth happens now?