Ripper Street - BBC "Historical" Crime Drama

AnyaKimlin said:
In Victorian times the police were mostly poorly paid thugs. (she says apologising to her ancestors).
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We have seen two "confessions" in three episodes. But skills change: it's only 30 years since ambulance staff (UK at least) were little more than porters...
 
Excellent.

If you like this, Copper from BBC America is also worth a look.
Only two series before it was axed, but very good nonetheless.
 
Looking forward to this. I really enjoyed the dark aspects of the first series. Nicely done.
 
Ripper Street series 2 will be the last, the BBC has confirmed.

Here's some sad news. Whilst the BBC's Ripper Street has had its bumps, there's plenty about it to like, and the show has a hardened core of fans that follow it. Not enough as it happens, though, as the BBC will not be ordering a series 3.


Chatting to BBC Radio London, actor Jerome Flynn revealed the news, and said that the cast and production team found out the news this week. The reason behind the decision to cancel the show? Ratings.


"It was up against I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, and that's been cited as one of the reasons in terms of viewing figures", he said. "We're all in absolute shock because it's a wonderful job and we feel like it's kind of this unfinished work. So we're hoping it will turn around if anyone from the BBC is listening".


A BBC statement, however, read that "we are very proud of Ripper Street which has enjoyed two highly ambitious series on BBC One. However, the second series didn't bring the audience we hoped and in order to make room for creative renewal and new ideas it won't be returning".


It's sad that a public service broadcaster has to play the ratings game as much as the BBC sometimes, but then the tabloid ire it gets when a show doesn't perform makes that understandable. It's just a shame that Ripper Street has been caught in the crossfire.


Series two of the show still has a couple of weeks left, and then that's your lot, it seems.
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BBC cancels Ripper Street, confirms no series 3 | Den of Geek
 
With the last episode of the second series of Ripper Street just having aired on the BBC in the UK tonight, we are left wondering about the fate of the characters in the fantastic British drama.


This episode was hugely dramatic and only shows what a magnificent show Ripper Street has become.


As I write this we are edging up to 21,000 signatures - 21,000 people who are telling the BBC to reverse their decision to cancel Ripper Street.


Over the past two weeks, we have had great publicity in newspapers and on the web. And it has resulted in TigerAspect - the maker of Ripper Street - talking to LoveFilm about making the show directly for online viewing - the BBC says it may buy it afterwards. Whether this all happens, we don't know but it is a positive movement and it gives us hope that Reid, Drake, Jackson, Long Susan and the other beloved characters will come back next series and continue their stories on the streets of 1890s Whitechapel.


Please pass on this link to your friends and fellow Ripper Street fans and continue the fight to Save Ripper Street!


http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/reverse-the-bbc-s-decision-to-cancel-ripper-street
 
Wow! That's brilliant. I only got into this in the second series so I'm a bit gutted it's been cancelled. The final ep was truly excellent. Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn are so good in it.
 
NOOO! I've been enjoying this series! :(

I will admit the first series was a bit off feeling; mostly at the start because the characters were established; it always felt like there was a two or three episode starter dealing with the Ripper hunt itself that was "missing"; but otherwise its been a solid strong series; especailly as its dealt with a more brutal side of police work; its not the softly softly approach of many detective dramas.

I hope they can continue it; they've clearly spent a lot on the series with sets and period dress; not to mention on a solid set of actors.
 
Listen up, Ripper Street fans: all hail your saviour, Amazon!

BBC News - Ripper Street resurrected by Amazon deal

The BBC cancelled the show in December due to poor ratings, but Amazon has now commissioned a third season for its Prime Instant Video service - formerly known as Lovefilm Instant.

The show will premiere on Amazon and screen on the BBC a few months.
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The programme's makers said the third series would go ahead as originally planned with eight episodes, the same budget and "slightly more bells and whistles" than the previous two series.
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Same cast, same sets, same budget, same plans, with the BBC broadcasting the episodes not long after they appear on Amazon.
 
Thank you Amazon!

I met this serie only because I bumped into it one night watching the crime channel on tv (basically the only one I watch... I love crime and thriller tv series!) and I love it at first sight!

I have to admit I have no such knowledge to know by first sight what was accurate and what not, but I enjoyed it a lot, I loved the fact it was different from other series, the Jack the Ripper's ghost haunting the police and the people of White Chapel... Plus I have to admit I'm a huge Matthew Macfadyen fan :)

Unluckily for me I was just able to watch the first 4 episodes of the first serie... guess I'll buy the blueray if there is any and watch it all!
 
Nice! And great to see another big company stepping in to save the series - I'm impressed that they've been able to retain full cast and sets!

Now I wonder if we could get Amazon to buy Firefly......
 
Isn't the show being commissioned by Amazons Love Film, or whatever it is they call it these days?
 
The new series of Ripper Street starts on Amazon Prime Instant Video with a double-bill on Friday the 14th of November at 9pm...

Following news earlier this year of the Amazon deal that saved Ripper Street from cancellation (a deal aided in no small way by the activity of fans not prepared to accept the series two finale as the last they'd see of D.I. Reid and co.), we now have release date details for the new series.

Instead of landing online in one great lump, series three of Ripper Street will be meted out weekly, following the broadcast pattern. New episodes will arrive on the streaming service every Friday at 9pm from the 14th of November until the 26th of December. A double-bill will kick-start the action and take fans back to Whitechapel.

The episodes will also air on the BBC in 2015, in an edited form that doesn't include some scenes exclusive to Amazon customers.

Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg and Myanna Buring will all reprise their roles in the series, which is being sold as "an ever more vivid and sensual descent into the lives of the men and women who must live on the violent streets of late-Victorian Whitechapel."
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http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/ripper-street/32365/ripper-street-series-3-start-date-announced
 
Ugh well I can't watch it as I refuse to do Amazon Prime after they took money out of my bank account without permission.
 
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