Ripper Street

Ripper Street: Second Mipcom Poster

Luce has once again found a smaller poster with just Matthew Macfadyen as Inspector Reid in Ripper Street, ready for MIPCOM 2012

Ripper Street: Second Mipcom Poster

Ripper Street: New Promotional Photo

It is almost here, BBC WorldWide Day at the Roma Fiction Fest 2012, on October 1.  Ripper Street will be having it's international premiere in Rome, with Matthew Macfadyen walking the red carpet.

The Roma Fiction Fest website, has been updating its website and has a new photo from Ripper Street.  You can view it among the banner HERE.

(thank you again Luce!)

Ripper Street Poster for Mipcom

Our detective extraordinaire, Luce, has discovered the lovely new poster for Ripper Street that has been created for Mipcom this year.  

The poster uses the tagline "The Law for the Lawless".  Ripper Street has been called a western for Victorian London, and certainly the tagline seems to fit.  From the Q&A, it was mentioned that because of poverty, one in four women were prostitutes at some point in their lifetime in London during this time period.  

You can view the poster in all its glory HERE.

Ripper Street: Photoset with Keeley Hawes and Matthew Macfadyen at BAFTA Screening

There are some lovely photos that Mobiblog took at the Bafta screening of Ripper Street on Monday. Several include Matthew Macfadyen and Keeley Hawes. Also, you can see the cast on stage during the Q&A after the screening.

View these lovely photos HERE.

Ripper Street: Gruesome Drama Which Explores the Aftermath of Jack The Ripper

The Telegraph has an article discussing the first episode of Ripper Street.  Be sure to read the full article but here are some of the highlights:

The first episode is especially gruesome and sordid, exploring the very beginnings of pornography, which arrived hot on the heels of the first cameras.

and

....this is not the comparatively polite, Dickens-esq world of Victorian London. “All the period depictions I’d seen of that particular crime story had almost been a bit too well behaved in a slightly slower way and shots have to be a bit wider to show off the nice furniture,” says director Tom Shankland. “But if you can think of something awful [in Victorian London], it was happening.”

While Matthew Macfadyen had this to say about his character

The character of Edmund Reid is based on a policeman who was part of the Ripper investigations, but only in name. “He was a remarkable man but I didn’t base it on him. He was a balloonist, and a druid, and 5 ft 6,” says Macfadyen. “The police would have felt incredibly modern at the time, in many ways they were stumbling around a bit, before scientific advancement, fingerprints and forensics.”

Ripper Street has already been sold in Canada, Norway and Australia ahead of MIPCOM.  Ripper Street will be airing on BBC One later this year.

 

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