"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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Season 4 finale of Ripper Street airs Thursday night, and it looks like it's going to be one of the darkest conclusions to an installment of this BBC America period crime drama yet. With a new ...

Inspector Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn) comes to the rescue on Wednesday's Season 3 premiere of "Ripper Street." Bernard Walsh The new season of “Ripper Street” is off the rails — literally. Season 3, ...

Despite the show's name, don't expect to see Jack the Ripper cases play a big part on Ripper Street. That's because the new BBC America crime drama, which kicks off Saturday at 9/8c, takes place in ...

Based in Whitechapel, east London – set in the wake of the infamous Jack the Ripper murders – the Victorian series follows on three years since Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) left Whitechapel for a quiet ...

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 ...

“Ripper Street,” the Victorian-era police procedural debuting on BBC America on Saturday, opens with chilling promise and on a decidedly modern note. It’s 1889 in London’s notorious East End and a man ...

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 ...

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 ...