Saturday, September 22, 2012

BBC Worldwide’s Ripper Street sends shivers along the Croisette Date: 20.09.2012Last updated: 20.09.2012 at 15.08 (bbc)



Canada and Norway pre buy Ripper Street ahead of MIPCOM 2012

Click to tweet: @BBCWpress announce Ripper Street launch with the 3 lead actors @mipcom 8 Oct plus 2 new pre sales to Canada & Norway http://bbc.in/Qll8tU

BBC Worldwide will be hosting the stars of the brilliant new crime drama Ripper Street at MIPCOM 2012 as Matthew Macfadyen (Pride and Prejudice, Spooks), Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones) and Adam Rothenberg (Alcatraz) fly down to Cannes to launch the series at a special event on 8th October.  Ahead of MIPCOM, BBC Worldwide is pleased to announce two more pre-sales of the title with Canada’s SPACE and NRK in Norway picking up the 8-part series.

IMAGES FROM RIPPER STREET TUMBLER
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Steve Macallister, President & Managing Director for BBC Worldwide Sales & Distribution, says:  “Acclaimed writers, superb acting talent and the highest of production values are all evident in our rich and varied MIPCOM drama slate.  With such shows as  Ripper Street and The Paradise,  set in the Victorian era;  WW2 drama Spies of Warsaw;  Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake set in modern day New Zealand and the futuristic Doctor Who (S7) we can offer truly unrivalled storytelling spanning three centuries and beyond.”

Ripper Street, written by Richard Warlow (Waking the Dead, Mistresses) and produced by Tiger Aspect Productions and Lookout Point for the BBC, has already pre-sold to Network Ten in Australia and is a co production with BBC AMERICA.  The drama is set in and around Whitechapel in London’s East End in 1889, during the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders.  The action centres on the notorious H Division, which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic dark streets of London.

READ MORE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/worldwide/200912ripper.html

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