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Ripper Street is a British mystery drama television series set in Whitechapel in the East End of London starring Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, and MyAnna Buring. It begins in 1889, six months after the infamous Jack the Ripper murders.
- The Real Reid of Ripper Street. Edmund Reid (MacFadyen) was a real detective at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders. A keen hot air balloonist and a talented actor and singer, he was described by Weekly Despatch as 'one of the most remarkable men of the century'.
- Victorian newspapers. The show’s creator Richard Warlow is always on the hunt for 19th century newspapers and magazines, from which he draws the inspiration for the language he uses in his scripts.
- Pricey pub. The Leman Street police station and The Brown Bear pub, which Inspector Reid, Sergeant Drake and Captain Jackson have all frequented in their darker moments, still exist today.
- Inspector Drake on X Factor? Simon Cowell asked Jerome Flynn, who plays Sergeant Jackson, to be a judge on X Factor when the reality show first started, but Jerome turned him down.
Aug 22, 2016 · Victorian crime thriller Ripper Street has returned to BBC Two for an explosive fourth series. We spoke to the show’s writer and creator Richard Warlow about the challenges of recreating London’s 19th-century slums and why he doesn’t like the term “period drama”…
- Ellie Cawthorne
Oct 8, 2019 · Jack the Ripper is a real-life, still unidentified serial killer from 19th century London who has long fascinated filmmakers. Jack is known to have murdered at least five women - and possibly more - in 1888 and viciously mutilated their bodies.
- Senior Staff Writer
The series loosely intertwines history with fiction, as there actually was an Inspector Edmund Reid who policed the streets of Whitechapel at the time, and even Joseph Merrick (aka The Elephant Man) features in a couple of episodes.
Mar 6, 2013 · Horowitz tells a dark story perfectly in sync with the spirit of Richard Warlow’s Ripper Street – both tell period stories geared towards an audience willing to glimpse just a little deeper in the depths of human depravity than previous generations.
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May 5, 2016 · Ripper Street, the British television crime drama that came back from the dead, is thriving in its new life. The Victorian-era whodunit, now entering its fourth series, has been allowed to spread its wings far beyond the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, thanks largely to the power of audience ire and the big investment bucks of internet television.
