“I am down on whores and I shant quit ripping them till I do get buckled…”

Rupert Penry Jones, Phil Davis and Steve Pemberton lead the cast in a darkly atmospheric new ITV thriller, WHITECHAPEL.

Set in 2008 against the contrasting facades of Whitechapel, London; a series of bloody, tragic and impossible crimes suggest someone is carrying out copycat Jack the Ripper murders.

In a city under the constant surveillance of CCTV and safe in the knowledge that DNA evidence helps catch even the most dangerous criminal, this modern day Ripper still manages to recreate the slaughter with alarming accuracy while mirroring the red herrings and twisted idiosyncrasies connected to the original case.

The murders are investigated by three unlikely heroes: Chandler (Penry Jones), a fast-tracked, media savvy DI on his first big murder case; Miles (Davis), nearing retirement, a front-line, hard-bitten DS, now saddled with a boss who would rather talk about Emotional Intelligence than gut feeling; and Buchan (Pemberton), the expert on myths and legends behind unexplained or violent deaths and eccentrically brilliant Ripperologist.

A modern police force is fighting an old adversary; an adversary who was never caught. Our heroes have a race against time to prevent further bloodshed.

ITV Director of Drama, Laura Mackie says: “Whitechapel is a very modern take on the detective genre which combines the Victorian intrigue of the original case with the atmospheric backdrop of a contemporary East End of London. This is not simply about bloodthirstily recreating the Ripper murders, but rather focusing on the three main characters at the heart of the story and the black humour that binds the team together.”