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When we say that Netflix has something for everyone, we do mean that because the horror sub-genre of serial killers has always been popular among audiences but making a good show on this topic is pretty hard. That’s why we had to scour through Netflix’s huge library of content to find the best of the best. So, here are the 10 best serial killer shows on Netflix you should watch right now.

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Credit – Netflix

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is the first season of the anthology series about real-life serial killers titled Monster. Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, the Netflix series revolves around one of the most dangerous serial killers ever. While Dahmer is a big part of the story, we see the series mostly through the eyes of the victims. Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story stars Evan Peters,...

Jenna Coleman is one of the most talented and charming actresses working in the film and TV industry. The English actress made her TV debut with the 2005 British soap opera Emmerdale, and her first feature film role was a very small one but it was in Captain America: First Avenger. She recently starred in the adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s DC comics The Sandman as Johanna Constantine and she is currently starring in the Prime Vide thriller series Wilderness. So, if you also love Coleman’s performances here are the 10 best movies and TV shows starring Jenna Coleman that should be on your watchlist.

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Synopsis: Room At The Top is a drama series based on John Braine’s classic book about Joe Lampton, a young man on the make in 1940’s Yorkshire.

9. Dancing on the Edge (Tubi & Prime Video...

Starring Deva Cassel, Laura Luchetti’s “The Beautiful Summer” (“La Bella Estate”) has bowed sales and a trailer, ahead of its world premiere at this week’s Locarno Festival.

In a first deal to go down for sales agent True Colours, Palace Films has swooped on distribution rights to Australia and New Zealand. Xenix Filmdistribution will release in Switzerland “The Beautiful Summer,” which is loosely based on Cesare Pavese’s novel.

“His vision is so contemporary. He speaks about adolescence, the time in your life when everything is possible. It’s a story of a simple girl trying to make it in the big city, forced into becoming a woman. It’s a story of every girl,” Luchetti told Variety.

In the film, set in Turin in 1938, hard-working Ginia (Yile Yara Vianello) is looking for an adventure. She finds Amelia (Deva Cassel), who models for painters and introduces her to a whole different world.

Shooting has kicked off in Rome on limited series “The Leopard” based on the classic Sicily-set novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that marks Netflix’s most ambitious Italian original to date.

Production on the lavish period piece will take place in the Sicilian cities of Palermo, Syracuse, Catania as well as the Italian capital over the next four months.

The historical tapestry with elements comparable to “Downton Abbey” or “The Crown,” and potential to make a global mark, is a modern take on the sensual Sicilian saga famously adapted into a film by Luchino Visconti starring Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster. The film, now an Italian cinema classic, won the 1963 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The six-episode epic set against the backdrop of social revolution in 1860s Sicily will star top model Deva Cassell – who is Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel’s daughter – as Angelica Sedara,...

Russell T Davies Channel 4/HBO AIDS drama It’s a Sin has continued its awards season domination by picking up six nominations at the Royal Television Society (Rts) Awards.

The show from Red Production Company also has six Broadcasting Press Guild nods and has been recognized by the Rts for Writer (Davies), Actor (Female – Keeley Hawes), Actor (Male – Olly Alexander & Callum Scott Howells), Breakthrough and the coveted Limited Series.

Host broadcaster Channel 4 picked up 28 nominations, with the BBC edging it out with 30, Sky with 10 and ITV with eight.

BBC One, ITV and Sky Arts will compete for the prestigious Rts Channel of the Year award at the March ceremony in London.

Other high-profile nominees include The Serpent’s Tahir Rahim against the two It’s a Sin actors, Stephen’s Sharlene Whyte and In My Skin’s Gabrielle Creevey against Hawes, and Jack Thorne for Help against The Serpent’s Richard Warlow...

The story of criminal mastermind Charles Sobhraj has captivated true crime followers for more than 40 years. The serial killer left a trail of bodies — mostly young European and North American backpackers — across Asia in the 1970s, then stunned everyone when he escaped from prison not once but at least four times.

(Caution: Spoilers ahead! Do not read until you have watched “The Serpent.”)

Now on Netflix, the devious con man’s story is an eight-part docudrama from Mammoth Screen first shown on BBC, created by Tom Shankland and Richard Warlow. The creators decided to frame the story around Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg, who spent years on the trail of Sobhraj and was key to his eventual arrest. They interviewed Knippenberg along with several other real-life figures who are still alive. However, they did not speak with the imprisoned Sobhraj, who has already sensationally manipulated his own story over the years.

There’s always a tricky question of semantics when it comes to stories about criminals who deal in deception. The lines between the points where one persona ends and another begins make it difficult to focus on who the “real” figure at the center is.

That’s true for “The Serpent,” the eight-part limited series about the life and crimes of Charles Sobhraj, but only to an extent. Though Tahar Rahim plays all forms of the man who led an international crime ring, he exists for most of the series as “Alain Gautier.” What begins as an alias — the origins of which the audience sees in fits and starts as the series progresses — comes to encompass all of what allowed him to grow his intercontinental passport- and jewel-laundering scam, ensnaring a growing net of murder victims and accomplices and enemies along the way. In the process, the show surrounding him...

French-Algerian actor Tahar Rahim first learned about serial killer Charles Sobhraj as a teenager in the 1990s. He picked up the book On the Trail of the Serpent from his older brother’s nightstand, and read about a manipulative murderer who drugged, stole from and killed a series of mostly backpacking victims along South Asia’s “hippie trail” in the 1970s. Two decades later, Rahim would be cast as Sobhraj in true crime drama The Serpent, an eight part series now on Netflix. In it, the actor sought to channel the unnervingly still, hypnotic but fast-striking cobra-like quality the book’s descriptions of Sobhraj had conjured up for him.

Richard Neville and Julie Clarke’s On the Trail of the Serpent: the Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj was first published in 1979 and narrates events from the killer’s childhood until the late 1970s. It became a global bestseller on its initial publication,...

For the second season of FX’s American Crime Story franchise, Tom Rob Smith used a reverse-chronological structure to trace Andrew Cunanan’s Talented Mr. Ripley-style journey from con artist with identity issues to road-tripping murderer. It was a framing device that didn’t always feel organic, but it yielded unexpected emotional rewards as the series progressed, aided tremendously by Darren Criss’ lacerating performance.

It’s impossible to know if writer Richard Warlow took inspiration from The Assassination of Gianni Versace; maybe it’s a complete coincidence that he approached the menacing tale of ’70s serial killer Charles Sobhraj as a Talented ...

For the second season of FX’s American Crime Story franchise, Tom Rob Smith used a reverse-chronological structure to trace Andrew Cunanan’s Talented Mr. Ripley-style journey from con artist with identity issues to road-tripping murderer. It was a framing device that didn’t always feel organic, but it yielded unexpected emotional rewards as the series progressed, aided tremendously by Darren Criss’ lacerating performance.

It’s impossible to know if writer Richard Warlow took inspiration from The Assassination of Gianni Versace; maybe it’s a complete coincidence that he approached the menacing tale of ’70s serial killer Charles Sobhraj as a Talented ...

The case of Charles Sobhraj seems perfect for the age of the true-crime dramatization. Sobhraj, currently incarcerated in Nepal, was a serial murderer in the 1970s, preying especially upon Western travelers on the so-called Hippie Trail in Asia. His notoriety intersects with the anxieties of his era, and his deeds demonstrate an almost boundless capacity for cruelty and compartmentalization: Both of these facts would seem to serve a genre that seeks within stories from the past ways of understanding our times and ourselves.

“The Serpent,” a limited series appearing on Netflix after running on BBC One earlier this year, unfortunately never gets there. Through the writing of Richard Warlow and Toby Finlay, we are given an intriguing — if at times somewhat generic-feeling — look into the world of seekers and believers trying to find themselves between Kathmandu and Bangkok, and we see that world preyed on by an archvillain whose skillfulness...

In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix revealed the premiere date and trailer for “The Serpent,” and Apple TV Plus announced the streaming premiere date for “It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown.”

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Netflix announced that crime drama “The Serpent” will premiere on April 2. Inspired by real events set in the 1970s, the limited series tells the story of the merciless killer Charles Sobhraj (Tahar Rahim) and his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman), who prey on tourists exploring the “hippie trail” in South Asia. When Sobhraj becomes the chief suspect in a series of murders of young Western travelers, it’s up to Herman Knippenberg (Billy Howle), a Dutch diplomat in Bangkok, to investigate the spree of crimes. The series also stars Ellie Bamber, Amesh Edireweer and Tim McInnerny. Directed by Tom Shankland and Hans Herbots, the series was written by Richard Warlow and Toby Finlay. Warlow, Shankland, Preethi Mavahalli,...

Tahar Rahim stars as “Asia’s most notorious killer” Charles Sobhraj in a new trailer for the upcoming Netflix series “The Serpent,” released on Thursday.

Inspired by real events, the eight-episode series tells the story of Sobhraj, a serial conman who posed as a gem dealer and travelled across Southeast Asian in the 1970s with his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc (played in the series by Jenna Coleman), carrying out a spree of crimes on the so-called “Hippie Trail.” Together the duo became the chief suspects in a series of murders of young Western travelers.

The limited series also stars Billy Howle as Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg; Ellie Bamber as Herman’s wife Angela Knippenberg; Amesh Edireweera as Ajay Chowdhury; and Tim McInnerny as Paul Siemons.

A co-production between BBC One and Netflix, “The Serpent” is set to debut on Netflix on April 2.

Richard Warlow and Toby Finlay are writers on the series,...

Netflix and BBC’s serial killer series “The Serpent” is one of the international shows whose filming was impacted by the pandemic, and required shifting production from Asia to Europe.

The drama, which stars Tahar Rahim (“A Prophet”) as the French conman and mass murderer Charles Sobhraj, was on its last stretch of shooting on location in Thailand in late March when the country went into lockdown. After a near five-month pause, the series had to relocate filming to the U.K. where production decamped in Hertfordshire, just north of London, on Aug. 17. The lensing, which took place for 10 days and will conclude Friday, consisted of remaining scenes that were initially scheduled to be shot in Thailand in March.

“It’s a testament to the hard work and sheer inventiveness of ‘The Serpent”s creative team, cast and crew that we’ve been able to safely wrap the series here in the U.

Jenna Coleman will switch from starring as the long-reining British sovereign in “Victoria” to play Marie-Andrée Leclerc, the partner and accomplice of French serial killer Charles Sobrhaj, in the BBC and Netflix drama “The Serpent.” Coleman will star alongside the previously announced Tahar Rahim, who plays Sobrhaj, as well as Ellie Bamber and Billy Howle, who have joined the series.

Sobhraj was the chief suspect in the unsolved murders of up to 20 young travelers across India, Thailand, and Nepal’s hippie trail in the mid-1970s. Having slipped repeatedly from the grasp of authorities worldwide, he became Interpol’s most wanted man.

Howle will play Herman Knippenberg, a junior diplomat at the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok who unwittingly walks into Sobhraj’s web of crime and ultimately seeks to bring him to justice. Bamber will appear as his wife, Angela.

The BBC will launch the series in the U.K.

Victoria’s Jenna Coleman, Dunkirk’s Billy Howle and Nocturnal Animals’ Ellie Bamber are to lead BBC/Netflix drama The Serpent.

The trio join Tahar Rahim, who plays Charles Sobrhaj, one of the most elusive criminals of the 20th century. Filming has begun in Thailand on the eight-part Mammoth Screen-produced series.

Coleman will play Marie-Andrée Leclerc, Sobhraj’s partner and frequent accomplice, with Howle and Bamber cast as Herman and Angela Knippenberg.

Charles Sobhraj (Rahim) was the chief suspect in the unsolved murders of up to 20 young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976. Psychopath, con man, thief and master of disguise, having slipped repeatedly from the grasp of authorities worldwide, by 1976 serial killer Sobhraj was Interpol’s most wanted man and had arrest warrants on three different continents.

When Herman Knippenberg (Howle), a junior diplomat at the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok, unwittingly walks into...

Tahar Rahim will play French serial killer Charles Sobhraj in the BBC drama “The Serpent,” which Netflix is boarding as a co-producer. The streaming giant will play it in the U.S. and around the world.

Rahim (“The Looming Tower”) will star as conman and mass murderer Sobhraj, who was discovered and trailed by a young diplomat in mid-1970s Southeast Asia and who escaped prison more than once.

The eight-part series is written by Richard Warlow (“Ripper Street”) and based on the true story of how the elusive Sobhraj was caught and brought to trial. The drama follows a junior diplomat from the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok as he unwittingly walks into the web of crime that leads him to chase down the murderer in the twilight years of the Asian Hippie Trail.

The series will be directed by Tom Shankland (“The Missing”) and produced by ITV-owned Mammoth Screen...

NBC Universal-backed Heyday Television has hired DNA Films and TV’s Tom Winchester as President.

He will work closely with David Heyman, who runs the Jv, and will lead the company’s UK business. He was formerly Creative Director at DNA.

Winchester is currently producing Shogun, a ten-part limited series for FX based on the international bestseller written by James Clavell. Shogun will be directed by Tim Van Patten and is FX’s largest scale international production to date.

Winchester joined DNA Films in 2014 to set-up the TV department through a first-look deal with the Fox Network Group. In addition to Shogun, he developed series including Devs for FX and Black Narcissus for the BBC and worked with writers including John Hodge, Bryan Elsley, Danny Brocklehurst, Richard Warlow, David Wolstencroft, Dominic Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Philippa Goslett.

Heyday Television is to start production on The Capture, a contemporary conspiracy...

“The Serpent”New, eight-part drama series “The Serpent” is a BBC original drama written by Richard Warlow (“Ripper Street”) and based on the phenomenal true story of how Charles Sobhraj, one of the most elusive criminals of the 20th century, was caught and brought to trial. The series follows a junior diplomat from the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok as he unwittingly walks into the web of crime that leads him to chase down the murderer in the twilight years of the Asian Hippie Trail. The series will be directed by Tom Shankland (“The Missing”) and produced by Mammoth Screen (“Poldark”) for BBC One. Casting director Robert Sterne is attached. “The Serpent” begins filming in mid-April 2019. “The Singapore Grip”Back in July, we reported that ITV will host new drama “The Singapore Grip,” adapted from the Jg Farrell novel by “Atonement” and “Dangerous Liaisons” screenwriter Christopher Hampton. Set in the Second World War,...

Louisa Mellor Sep 27, 2016

The fifth and final series of Ripper Street will arrive on Amazon Video in the UK on Wednesday the 12th of October...

All six episodes of series five in Richard Warlow's Victorian-set crime drama Ripper Street will arrive on Amazon Video in the UK on the 12th of October.

Series five, announced earlier this year as the show's final run, began filming in Dublin this March. The speedy turnaround means that fans watching via the streaming service will be treated to two series in a single year.

Amazon rescued the detective drama after its cancellation by the BBC in 2013, giving Warlow the chance to expand the story of Edmund Reid and co. with three further series. 

According to the Amazon press bumf, the show's six final episodes "make up one single story. Our heroes become fugitives, forved to operate outside the law as they pursue the...

How will Ripper Street end? Recently, series creator Richard Warlow wrote an article for Radio Times about the future of the UK series.Earlier, Amazon announced season five would be the final season for the period drama, which stars Matthew MacFadyen, Jerome Flynn, and Adam Rothenberg. The streaming platform picked up the show after BBC One cancelled it.Read More…...

Ripper Street will end after its fifth season, which has begun filming in Dublin, Amazon announced today. In the final season, writer Richard Warlow shows how, as the Victorian age comes to a close, the police officers of H Division attempt to maintain law and order on the streets of Whitechapel. Joseph Mawle (In the Heart of the Sea) rejoins the series as the feared Detective Inspector Jedediah Shine, intent on a mission of revenge after last being seen in the series two…...

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Amazon has announced that Ripper Street has begun filming on its "fifth and final series", with an old face returning...

When Amazon announced a simultaneous renewal for series four and five of the resurrected Ripper Street, there was a tacit understanding that those two runs would mark the end of the show.

That understanding has gone from unspoken to well... spoken, in the press release announcing the start of series five filming, which definitively calls it the "fifth and final season".

Ripper Street creator Richard Warlow previously announced his intention to take the show all the way to the end of the Victorian era, which, by our calculations, will require another short time jump to get from the 1897-set fourth series to the close of Victoria's reign in 1901. 

Sad news as the end is for any series which has, like Ripper Street, gone from strength to strength,...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the entire third series of Ripper Street - now airing on BBC One

Ripper Street is swelling its ranks with the addition of some exciting new cast members.

David Threlfall is joining the period thriller for its fourth series as villain Abel Croker.

Shameless star Threlfall will be a series regular, while Harry Potter veteran Matthew Lewis - of posing in his pants fame - also joins the cast.

Ex-Robin Hood Jonas Armstrong, '71 star Killian Scott and acting legend David Warner will also appear in the new series, which has just begun filming in Dublin.

They join returning cast members Matthew MacFadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg and Charlene McKenna - while MyAnna Buring will also be back, meaning her Long Susan must have escaped the gallows!

Lucy Cohu (Deborah Goren) and Derek Riddell (Constantine) will also return, reprising their roles from the very first series of Ripper Street.

BBC One has confirmed that Ripper Street will return on the channel on July 31.

Reid, Drake and Jackson will continue to fight crime on Friday nights at 9pm, following its release on Amazon Prime Instant Video in November.

Ripper Street became the most-watched show on Amazon in the UK, following its untimely axe by BBC One.

Amazon has also confirmed that the drama will continue for a fourth and fifth series. It is unclear whether the forthcoming series will air on the BBC.

The third series sees Bennett Drake (Jerome Flynn) returning to H Division as an Inspector, Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) focusing on his books and Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg) returning to the force after four years away.

The show's creator and writer Richard Warlow said: "Series three pivots around the fall from grace of 'Long' Susan Hart, a woman whose new philanthropic ambition is matched only by her ruthless pursuit.

Procedural crime drama Ripper Street is returning to BBC One this month.

The third series of the show - which is co-produced by the BBC and Amazon - previously launched on Amazon Prime Instant Video at the end of 2014.

The drama is set in Whitechapel, East London following the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders in 1889.

The show's creator and writer Richard Warlow said: "Series three pivots around the fall from grace of 'Long' Susan Hart, a woman whose new philanthropic ambition is matched only by her ruthless pursuit.

"Because in Whitechapel, good intentions all too often have evil ends, and as strong as she is, Whitechapel is stronger."

Amazon has also confirmed that the drama will continue for a fourth and fifth series. It is unclear whether the forthcoming series will air on the BBC.

MyAnna Buring - who stars as Long Susan - told Digital Spy last...

Having rescued the period police procedural drama "Ripper Street" from cancellation after two seasons, Amazon must be happy with their commission and exclusive launch last year of a third season on their Amazon Prime Instant Video service.

Today comes word that the show performed very well with the third season streamed more than any other TV show and attracting larger viewing audiences than some major U.S. series.

As a result, Amazon has now committed to two further seasons for Prime Instant in the UK with filming to begin immediately. Premiere dates for the two new seasons have yet to be set, though it sounds like they may be slightly shorter runs of six or seven episodes each rather than the usual eight.

Matthew Macfadyen has confirmed he's set to return, saying in a statement: "I'm delighted to be embarking on another dose of Ripper Street - blood and guts,...

After the success of Wolf Hall, author Hilary Mantel is having another novel adapted for television by the BBC.

A screen version of 1992 French revolution novel A Place of Greater Safety is currently in the early stages, Broadcast reports.

The book is based on Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins and Maximilien Robespierre's involvement in the French Revolution.

The TV script is being written by Richard Warlow, creator and writer of Ripper Street.

It will be produced by DNA TV Limited, a joint venture between DNA Films and Fox Networks.

Wolf Hall's executive producer Colin Callender has said that he is "eager" to work on a sequel.

The six episodes were based on Mantel's Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012) and its premiere was the most-watched drama launch on the channel in a decade.

A second series would be based on the third and final instalment of her trilogy The Mirror and the Light,...

Ripper Street will return for a fourth and fifth series, after becoming the most-watched show on Amazon Prime Instant Video in the UK.

Amazon resurrected the period procedural after it was axed by BBC One, with the third series - released in November - proving a success for the online outlet.

Two further series have now been commissioned, with launch dates for both to be announced later this year.

Series three will have its first airing on BBC One this summer.

Ripper Street writer and creator Richard Warlow said: "It is a great privilege to be asked to continue this journey through Victorian Whitechapel.

"I had always hoped that Ripper Street would live to follow the world of 'H' Division right through to the end of the Victorian age itself; so with many great thanks to Amazon, and all those viewers who have taken Ripper Street to their hearts, it's...

Ripper Street series 4 and 5 are coming to Amazon Prime Instant Video, in a coup for fans of the period detective drama...

Yet more proof that TV is an entirely different game since the advent of streaming sites comes the announcement that Amazon has ordered not one, but two new series of Ripper Street. 

If anyone requires a potted history: the BBC cancelled the period detective drama following its second series. Then, after much fan protest and some valiant rescue work by the behind-the-scenes team came the triumphant news that Ripper Street would live on thanks to Amazon Prime Instant Video. Series three streamed there late last year to much acclaim, and series four and five are now to follow in its wake.

Creator and lead writer Richard Warlow has plans to follow Whitechapel's H Division "right through to the end of the Victorian age itself", and now it looks as though he'll have the opportunity.

Ripper Street has begun filming its third series.

Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg will all reprise their roles as Victorian crime-fighters Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake and Captain Homer Jackson for the Manchester shoot, the show's first in the UK.

Also returning is MyAnna Buring as Long Susan, alongside a raft of new characters.

Ripper Street was axed by the BBC last year, but a fan protest led to the show being picked up by Amazon Prime Instant Video.

"I'm delighted and excited to be back for a third series of Ripper," said MacFadyen.

"Thank you to Amazon, thank you to our fans who wanted more, and thank you to our wonderful writers and producers for giving us the most thoroughly brilliant, gripping and heart-rending episodes."

"We are committed to providing our customers with best-in-class film and TV, and with critically acclaimed acting and gripping storylines,...

Prepare to return to Ripper Street. The gothic period thriller was axed by the BBC late last year, prompting an outcry from fans, but will return for an eight-episode third series thanks to a new co-production deal with Amazon Prime Instant Video - formerly LoveFilm.

Series three will debut online and air sometime later on BBC One, though Amazon is yet to decide if it will release the entire series in one batch or in instalments.

The platform may be different, but otherwise it's business as usual for Ripper Street. For starters, all of the main cast will be back, with MyAnna Buring, who plays Long Susan, expressing her delight at "spearheading something new" for UK television.

"This is a first for a British television show," the actress said at a press conference announcing the show's revival. "That's incredibly exciting to be a part of."

The BBC cited declining viewership...

BBC One has confirmed the broadcast date of Ripper Street's second series premiere.

The period drama returns for its second run on Monday, October 28 at 9pm.

Taking place in the East End of London, the second series moves forward to 1890, and will feature the return of Matthew MacFadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg as crime-solving trio Reid, Drake and Jackson.

Paul Kaye (Game of Thrones) is among the guest stars of series two, along with Gina Bellman (Coupling) and Neve McIntosh (Doctor Who).

Breaking Bad star David Costabile, Being Human's Damien Molony and Game of Thrones actor Joseph Mawle are also among the new cast members.

The Elephant Man has also been confirmed to be making an appearance in the first two episodes of the series.

Speaking about series two, MacFadyen recently said: "It's fantastic to be reunited with much of the wonderful cast and crew from last year.

The Wire and Breaking Bad star David Costabile, Being Human's Damien Molony and Game of Thrones actor Joseph Mawle are among the new cast members for series two of BBC One period drama Ripper Street.

Filming has started in Dublin on the show's second run, which will feature the return of Matthew MacFadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg as crime-solving trio Reid, Drake and Jackson.

Costabile joins as Daniel Judge, the older brother of Jackson (Rothenberg), and will appear in the two-part finale.

Molony joins as new H Division constable Albert Flight, while Mawle is cast as the corrupt Inspector Jedidiah Shine. Newcomer Leanne Best will appear as Jane Cobden, the first woman elected to the London County Council.

Meanwhile, Paul Kaye (Dennis Pennis, Game of Thrones) is among the guest stars in series two, alongside Gina Bellman (Coupling), Neve McIntosh (Doctor Who and James Wilby (Maurice).

Based around the East End of London,...

Matthew Macfadyen has spoken about beginning filming on the second series of Ripper Street.

Filming for the next run of episodes of the BBC One drama has commenced in Dublin and the 38-year-old actor has described the new episodes as "wonderful".

He told Pa: "It's fantastic to begin shooting in Dublin again for the second series of Ripper Street - and to be reunited with much of the wonderful cast and crew from last year. Also to be reunited with my bowler hat - I'd missed it.

"The show's creator Richard Warlow has given us two wonderful, strange and unsettling opening episodes, teeming with the fierce and fragile life of Victorian Whitechapel."

The second series of the drama will see events taking place in 1890, where the crime-fighting team will struggle against corruption within their own police force.

Macfadyen's co-stars Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg return to their roles for the...

Being Human star Damien Molony is to appear in the next series of Ripper Street.

The Irish actor will play a guest role in the BBC period thriller's second series, which was announced in January.

Though details of his role are yet to be confirmed, Molony was spotted on set for Ripper Street in period garb.

Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg star in the Sunday night drama, which is set in London's Whitechapel just months after Jack the Ripper's reign of terror.

The fifth and final series of Being Human aired on BBC Three earlier this year, drawing to a close in March.

Molony's co-star Michael Socha has since landed a role in ABC's Wonderland pilot - a spinoff from popular fantasy drama Once Upon a Time.

Ripper Street - created by Richard Warlow - will air eight new 60-minute episodes on BBC One in 2014.

> Damien Molony on...

Coming off its finest episode yet last week, Ripper Street was recomissioned by BBC One - things were looking good for Richard Warlow's Victorian crime drama, but could newest instalment 'Tournament of Shadows' hope to continue the show's run of success?

After Bennett Drake got his dues last week, here Ripper Street shifts its attentions back to Detective Inspector Reid (Matthew MacFadyen) and his relationship with his wife (Amanda Hale), which continues to be strained by the loss of their daughter Matilda the year before.

Our hero is haunted by ghosts of the past, and while any attempt to explore character on a procedural drama such as this is welcome, we found our interest in Reid's family drama waning a little - that is, until 'Tournament' delivers the surprising revelation that Matilda may still be alive, since her body was never found.

Reid remains convinced of her continued survival,...

While not really a horror series, "Ripper Street" still has a lot to offer genre fans, so while we've cut back on our coverage of the show following its premiere on BBC America, some good news has come in that we just have to share!

Per Deadline, BBC One‘s Danny Cohen and Ben Stephenson have confirmed a second season order of "Ripper Street," just as the first season heads into the home stretch in the UK. The BBC America co-production will start shooting eight new episodes this spring for a 2014 air date. "Ripper Street" debuted on BBC America on January 19th, three weeks after its UK bow on BBC One.

Richard Warlow created and exec produces the series. Warlow said that the second season will “move forward into the 1890s: the death rattle of a century coming to a close, the labor pains of a modern world on the rise.

BBC America co-production Ripper Street has been ordered for eight more episodes, with the second season set to premiere in 2014. The gripping series is one of the best new offerings on American television and especially juicy is actor Joseph Gilgun who is featured this coming episode as a charismatic evil child gang leader named Carmichael. The lead actors Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg are exemplary in scene and click from frame one, as writer Richard Warlow has created an extraordinary series set in the East End of London in 1889. The mood of the series is dark, ominous after the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The new episodes will premiere this Saturdays at 9:00pm...

"Ripper Street," the British police procedural set during the reign of Jack the Ripper, will be back for a second season on BBC America. A co-production between the U.S. network and BBC One, "Ripper Street" is currently in the midst of its first season on BBC America, airing on Saturday nights. The second season will, like the first, consist of eight episodes, and is set to premiere in 2014. The show, which was created by Richard Warlow, stars Matthew Macfadyen as Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, who runs a Victorian-era police department in East London. Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, McAnna Buring, Charlene McKenna, David Dawson and Amanda Hale make up the rest of the cast. Read More: Jerome Flynn Talks 'Ripper Street,' How 'Game of Thrones' Changed His Life and His Era as an Accidental Pop Star In a statement, Warlow said, "I am enormously grateful to...

BBC America has given a second season order to its BBC One co-production "Ripper Street."    The eight-episode second "Ripper Street" season will premiere in 2014.   The first season, which premiered on BBC America two weeks ago, follows three investigators working London's East End in 1889. Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg star.   Blurbs creator Richard Warlow, "I am enormously grateful to have been given the opportunity to return to 'H' Division once more and will be working tirelessly to ensure that those who have joined us each week will find ever more compelling crime-fighting thrills down on...

BBC One‘s Danny Cohen and Ben Stephenson today confirmed a second season order of crime drama Ripper Street, just as the first season heads into the home stretch in the UK. The BBC America co-production will start shooting eight new episodes this spring for an as-yet unspecified 2014 air date. Ripper Street debuted on BBC America on January 19, three weeks after its UK bow on BBC One where it has faced tough competition from rival ITV’s Jeremy Piven period drama Mr Selfridge in the same timeslot. However, it’s been gaining in recent weeks for a consolidated average of 7.1M viewers and a 22.9% share over its first five outings. Richard Warlow created and exec produces the series that stars Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg in 1889 London and the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders. Warlow said today that the second season will “move forward into the...

News Louisa Mellor Jan 29, 2013

The BBC's Victorian crime series, Ripper Street, has been given a second series...

Here's some good news for fans of Matthew Madfadyen's latest small-screen role: at the end of its current eight-episode run, Ripper Street is confirmed to be returning for a second series.

The BBC's gamble on the new Sunday night detective series, which is also airing on BBC America, has paid off. A second run for the period crime drama set in 1890s Whitechapel was announced today by Beeb controller and drama commissioner, Danny Cohen and Ben Stephenson. 

Starring Matthew Mafadyen as the tortured but brilliant Detective Reid, Jerome Flynn as his loyal ex-military Sergeant Drake, and Adam Rothenberg as Howard Moon lookalike and trailblazing pathologist Homer Jackson, Ripper Street has so far attracted a healthy UK audience of 7.1 million and a 22.9 per cent viewer share.

Ripper Street's creator and writer, Richard Warlow...

Ripper Street is to return for a second series on BBC One. The period crime thriller - created by Richard Warlow - will air eight new 60-minute episodes in 2014. Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg star in the Sunday night drama, which is set in London's Whitechapel just months after Jack the Ripper's reign of terror. "Quality and ambition run through Ripper Street, from Richard Warlow's original scripts, the incredible cast and the captivating direction," said the BBC's controller of drama commissioning Ben Stephenson. "All combine to create a period series with a modern and gripping (more)...

Jerome Flynn makes a dramatic entrance in "Ripper Street," BBC America's new Victorian cop drama -- barechested and bloody and in the middle of an underground boxing match, from which he takes a brief pause to remove a tooth that has gotten lodged in his knuckles following a punch. This trend toward playing a go-to ruffian is a new one for Flynn, who's been acting in the U.K. for years, but who's best known to U.S. audiences for his role as the sardonic sellsword Bronn in HBO's "Game of Thrones," a character almost as popular as the fan favorite for whom he works, Peter Dinklage's Tyrion Lannister. Created by Richard Warlow ("Waking the Dead") "Ripper Street," which premieres tomorrow, January 19 at 9pm, is a period procedural that has Flynn playing Sergeant Bennet Drake, right-hand man to more refined Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen), as the two...

BBC America has posted the first three minutes of its upcoming period drama, Ripper Street. The eight-part crime series, starring Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg, is set in 1899 London in the aftermath of the Jack The Ripper murders. Series creator Richard Warlow recently said each episode will provide a “stand-alone crime.” The third installment just aired in the UK on BBC One this past Sunday and the series debuts on BBC America on January 19.

Review Jamie-Lee Nardone Jan 14, 2013

Ripper Street serves up another slice of bloody, gore-filled Victoriana in its third episode. Here's Jamie-Lee's review...

This review contains spoilers.

1.3 The King Came Calling

Be still my beating heart, the gore and viscera is so strong in this week’s episode that you can almost inhale the putrid stenches through your television screens. Yes, the body count is up in the third instalment from new Sunday night BBC One drama, but this time not from some slasher of the night or menacing child gang, it’s far more serious than that: King Cholera. Or at least, so the H Division think. However, it’s not long before Inspector Reid and Co soon realise that something more is at play here; subterfuge with grain. No, seriously.

The King Came Calling starts off with some religious preaching from a vicar in the City, with the camera focusing...

“How do you keep law in a lawless town,” the question is asked. The 1889 H division of East London is the answer we are given; the antidote to the chaos of Whitechapel.

On Sunday the 30th January, BBC1′s Ripper Streets burst onto our screens; the first episode of an eight-part series of a Victorian age, police procedural set in London’s East End. Created by the writers Richard Warlow (Mistresses, Waking the Dead), Julie Rutterford (Life on Mars, Shameless), Declan Croghan (Waking the Dead, The Body Farm) and Toby Finlay who have sculpted the story in the aftermath of the Whitechapel murders, six months following Jack the Ripper’s last murder. The main cast is headed by Matthew Macfadyen (Spooks, Pride & Prejudice, Anna Karenina), a talented stage and screen actor who fills the boots of Detective Inspector Edmund Reid; based on his real life namesake, head of H Division...

Jack the Ripper was the most notorious killer of the Victorian era, but he wasn't the only one. Haunted by their failure to apprehend him, the police on "Ripper Street," the new period procedural premiering January 19 on BBC America, have to move on.

"The whole idea for us setting out on this journey was to really discard Jack the Ripper at least in terms of wondering who he was or trying to catch him," creator Richard Warlow said at the TCA winter press tour Saturday (Jan. 5).

"What we wanted to do really was tell stories about the streets down which he walked and committed his crimes in the wake of those terrible murders and how it affected the community -- most importantly the police who tried and failed to catch him."

Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew MacFayden) and Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn, who plays Bronn on "Game of Thrones...

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TCA coverage. At a lunchtime panel at today’s TCA, Ray McKinnon, creator/writer/executive producer of Sundance series Rectify, was adamant about not revealing whether the serialized story would provide a traditional ending. But at another panel an hour or so later, Richard Warlow, creator of BBC America’s Ripper Street, was equally emphatic in saying that each episode of his show, set in the Victorian England in the time of Jack the Ripper, would provide a “stand-alone crime.” That being said, the crime to be solved will not be catching Jack the Ripper, said Warlow, who appeared on the panel with executive producer Will Gould and stars Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg. The idea, he said, was to create a show about the Victorian era and the people of “the streets down which he walked, and most importantly the police that tried to catch him.