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?
Loved it, even as dark & gritty as theEast End was at that time. My students’ loss. They really had their eyes opened to the living/social conditions, morals, etc. of the times.
This show was great!! I can’t believe it’s being canceled!! Shame on you!
Excellent drama, searing and quite true to the times. Superb acting and riveting characters. It had gone about as far as it could. Better to end at the top, than sink like Quantico.
Great show, why wold you cancel it? Wonderful cast and good storyline.
I really wish they would reconsider ending this series. It has been one of the best shows on tv. I will truly miss it.
Incredible show. Incredible ending. Thanks for renewing it and tying up loose ends as we eventually find out what happens to all the characters that over the years became our friends. The boxed set will be a must have item in my video library.
I was hoping the show would be renewed. I loved this show. There can still be a lot more to this story.
What a terrible way to have ended this great series!! To have killed off Judge,leaving his son an orphan and Reid all alone and unhappy with no happier prospects for his future is downright mean.
I really loved Ripper Street, to bad it had to end, wish that you would renew this show.
I think this show is great and it should be renewed. Why are the silly reality shows renewed? I like a show with a story!!
Please renew Ripper Street. This is a great show. What happens to Reed, the madam and her husband the doctor/coroner, reed’s daughter, Duff . This is a great series with lots of potential.
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I love this show, the acting is fantastic. I would love to see more shows. I have told all my friends to watch !!!
I loved the show, please bring it back. It was very suspenseful with a varied cast of characters.
Please DO NOT CANCEL!!