Posted Under: Ripper Street, Television
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 10:52 am |
Amazon has announced that season 5 of Ripper Street will be the show’s last. Matt Lewis joined the show for it’s 4th season and is currently filming the fifth and final. Ripper Street got it’s start on BBC and, when it was cancelled after two seasons, Amazon picked it up for what will be three more. The show has NOT been cancelled, they have just finished the story they wanted to tell so there is no need for further seasons.
In the final season, writer Richard Warlow shows how, as the Victorian age comes to a close, the police officers of H Division attempt to maintain law and order on the streets of Whitechapel. Joseph Mawle (“In the Heart of the Sea”) rejoins the series as the feared Detective Inspector Jedediah Shine, intent on a mission of revenge after last being seen in the season two finale when Inspector Reid (Matthew Macfadyen, “The Enfield Haunting”) plotted with Drake (Jerome Flynn, “Game of Thrones”) to take Shine’s life.
Season four, which launched exclusively for Prime Members in the U.K. in January, saw David Threlfall (“Shameless”), Matthew Lewis (“Happy Valley”) and David Warner (“Titanic,” “Planet of the Apes”) appear alongside series regulars Macfadyen, Flynn, MyAnna Buring (“The Twilight Saga”) and Adam Rothenberg (“The Immigrant”).