Although not without its flaws, the grim, pay-cable-like series benefits from a strong core cast and appealing look (minus a few glaringly bogus FX shots). Set in 1889, a year after the Whitechapel ...

The narrative is leaner and the writing feels more precise, leaning on the emotional relationships involved within the case, rather than the politics that fuels it. Go to Full Review Michael Noble ...

Unlike popular period drama “Downton Abbey,” any chatting in “Ripper Street” takes place after a good brawl, in a brothel or over a dead body in the morgue – not a cup of tea. Teeth-jarring fights and ...

"When you're playing a character, you don't need to know everything about them because I don't know everything about myself," the British actor, who stars in the post-Jack the Ripper series, told THR.

So have you always played such tough guys? Not quite tough in the same way. In the last ten years, my face is showing the toll of the life lived in a way that has made me more castable as the dudes. I ...

Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap The setting of the grimy, gray world of 1889 London, patrolled by a brilliant detective may seem familiar, but BBC America's new ...

LONDON — The fifth season of crime drama “Ripper Street” will be its last, Amazon Prime has revealed. Amazon stepped in to save “Ripper Street” in early 2014, following outcry from fans when the show ...

Ripper Street is coming back for a fourth and fifth series, which came as a surprise to star MyAnna Buring. Buring told Digital Spy that she expected the grisly period thriller's third run - out now ...

Victorian villains beware: it's DI Reid (Matthew Macfadyen, left) with DS Drake (Jerome Flynn) The series has included storylines about early film-making, psychiatry and occultism (though some female ...

Advance Review: Some spoilers follow... BBC America is set to premiere their period-set procedural crime drama, Ripper Street, beginning on January 19 (the show is already airing in the U.K.). It is ...

“None of this would have been possible without the fans” is a phrase we’re used to hearing at this time of year, usually from actors in sparkly outfits on posh stages accepting this that or another ...

The U.S. and U.K. co-production starring Matthew Macfadyen will see a sophomore run in 2014. By Mikey O'Connell Premieres: Saturday, Jan. 19, 9 p.m. Set six months after Jack the Ripper got away with ...