Fans of the hugely popular, yet somewhat controversial, new BBC drama series, Ripper Street, will be thrilled to learn that the Beeb have recommissioned the show for another series next year, the Metro newspaper reports!

Ripper Street, which is set in the Victorian backdrop of a Jack The Ripper terrorised Whitechapel, has not proved to be a hit with everyone who tuned in. The BBC received close to 100 complaints over its graphic, sexual and violent content when it aired for the first time at the beginning of the year.
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After watching him in Game of Thrones and now in Ripper Street, it’s hard to think that Jerome Flynn was once the singing partner to his Soldier Soldier co-star Robson Green. Indeed while Green has been hosting Extreme Fishing, Flynn has been busy acting however at the start of this episode he does partake of a bit of Extreme Shaving. Flynn’s Bennett Drake finally takes centre stage in this week’s instalment of Ripper Street having been quite a background character up to this point occasionally appearing to rough someone up or appear topless in a boxing ring.

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Those of you who read my review of the first episode of Ripper Street know that I felt it took itself too seriously and was all style and no substance. I was then persuaded to give it a chance by a friend who said the series gradually got better but, apart from Joe Giglun’s episode two performance as a sinister Fagin-type character, there wasn’t much evidence of that. Now we’re halfway through the series, I thought I’d give it another go and personally I think there’s been a slight improvement as questions have been asked about the central characters, while one of the guest actors gives an emotionally powerful performance that really lifts the episode.

The performance in particular comes from former Hollyoaks and Prisoner’s Wives actress Emma Rigby as Lucy, who we initially see appear at Long Sally’s brothel asking for her room back after having been cast out two years previous. As Lucy is currently pregnant, Sally feels she cannot justify keeping her on so sends her out into the cold once again, however later, she is found drenched in blood screaming to one of the police officers about a murder… Read more & comment »

In television terms the festive period is often dominated by both specials and one-off dramas however there are some exceptions to this rule. Mrs Brown’s Boys and Miranda have both already offered up Christmas specials to kick off their new seasons and tonight the BBC are starting a very different new series with the graphic Ripper Street.

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The BBC’s highly anticipated new drama Ripper Street begins on BBC1 tonight, and it promises to be a nail biter of a show which stars Jerome Flynn in his first major drama for many years!

Here’s what the BBC says of the period chiller…

Ripper Street is a new drama for BBC One set in the East End of London as it moves into the last decade of the 19th century.

April 1889 – six months since the last Jack the Ripper killing, East London is emerging into a fragile peace, hopeful that this killer’s reign of terror might at last have run its course… Read more & comment »