Having forensically dissected the pilot episode (YES I tossed the viscera in a filthy wash bin), I prognose that Ripper Street 's historical setting can only breathe so much new life into an achingly familiar formula. http://www.tv.com/news/ripper-street- more

“Ripper Street,” on BBC America, is a late-Victorian police procedural with Matthew Macfadyen. http://tv.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/arts/television/ripper-street-with-matthew-macfadyen-on-bbc-america.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

BBC America debuted its new police drama,  Ripper Street , last night.  Ripper Street  takes place in 1889 in the Whitecastle District of London  shortly after the killing spree of Jack the Ripper. As viewers know, the real Jack t more