Second Series of Dublin-Filmed ‘Ripper Street’ Announced
BBC's period crime drama RIPPER STREET which filmed on location in Dublin last year has been renewed for a second series with Broadcast reporting that eight episodes will air next year.
The show created by Richard Warlow (Mistresses, Waking the Dead) which airs on Sunday nights on BBC 1 stars Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn as policemen investing some brutal murders in London six months after the Jack the Rippers killings.
The first series which was funded by Bord Scannán na hEireann/the Irish Film Board, used Clancy Barracks in Dublin where the Georgian architecture was augmented with constructed film sets created by the Irish production designer Mark Geraghty to recreate the 1880's London's East End.
BBC's controller of drama commissioning said "Quality and ambition run through Ripper Street, from Richard Warlow's original scripts, the incredible cast and the captivating direction." He added "All combine to create a period series with a modern and gripping edge that will return for a second series in 2014."