"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.

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 ...

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 ...

BBC America's mystery series in Jack the Ripper-era London wins on great writing and casting. By Tim Goodman Premieres: Saturday, Jan. 19, 9 p.m. Set six months after Jack the Ripper got away with a ...

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,” 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 ...

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 ...

‘Ripper Street” will live to see another season. The BBC America drama, cancelled by the BBC after a two-season run in the UK, will plow ahead with a third season now that Amazon Studios has acquired ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...