3:05PM BST 25 Sep 2012
The BBC is exploring its darker side with a violent new eight-part crime drama set during the aftermath of Jack the Ripper, which takes in bare-knuckle boxing, early pornography and copycat murders.
The first episode is especially gruesome and sordid, exploring the very beginnings of pornography, which arrived hot on the heels of the first cameras.
Set in 1889, during the months following the murderer’s crime spree on the streets of Whitechapel, Ripper Street follows the police who have been left wondering if every new murder belongs to the man they never caught.
Matthew Macfadyen (Pride and Prejudice, Spooks) stars as upstanding Inspector Edmund Reid who is the brains to the brawn of colleague DS Bennett Drake (played by a gruff Jerome Flynn, once of Soldier, Soldier and Robson and Jerome, more recently seen exploring his inner brute as Game of Thrones’s Bronn).
Each week the pair, along with American surgeon Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg), solve a different violent crime on the streets of Whitechapel, London.
“It’s not an area that was short of vicious murders and any woman found murdered with a knife in the consequent months was held up as a Ripper murder,” says director Tom Shankland. “So we’ll touch on Ripper in that way but not dig anybody up or change the canonical five.”
READ MORE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9565354/Ripper-Street-gruesome-new-crime-drama-set-in-the-east-end-of-London.html
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