Spooky first trailer for Timothy Spall and Matthew Macfadyen drama The Enfield Haunting

RADIO TIMES
By Ben Dowell
Sunday 12 April 2015 at 09:00PM



Are you ready to be scared?

Here is the first look at new Sky Living drama The Enfield Haunting – and it may send a chill down your spine.

Starring Mr Turner's Timothy Spall alongside Ripper Street actor Matthew Macfadyen, the drama explores the supposedly genuine haunting of a small house in north London in the late 1970s.
Spall's character Maurice Grosse is a paranormal researcher drawn to the house on Green Street in Enfield after the tragic death of his daughter in a motorcycle accident.

He is joined in his quest to investigate the strange incidents at the address by his wife Betty, played by Truly, Madly, Deeply and The Village star Juliet Stevenson.

READ MORE HERE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-04-12/spooky-first-trailer-for-timothy-spall-and-matthew-macfadyen-drama-the-enfield-haunting

Timothy Spall: I was terrified making new poltergeist drama The Enfield Haunting

RADIO TIMES
By Ben Dowell
Tuesday 7 April 2015 at 10:50AM



Playing a man who investigates ghosts can have its drawbacks, according to Timothy Spall – especially when it comes to going to bed at night.

Spall is starring alongside Ripper Street actor Matthew Macfadyen in The Enfield Haunting, Sky Living’s upcoming drama about the supposedly genuine haunting of a small house in north London in the late 1970s.

In preparation for the role, the Mr Turner actor met parapsychology investigator Guy Lyon Playfair who is played by Macfadyen in the series and who wrote the book This House is Haunted on which the drama is based.

According to Spall, the encounter calmed his terrors about taking on the job which he initially turned down because it “frightened the life out of me”.

“I asked him, ‘didn’t you worry that when you came back there would be demons sitting on your bed or something?’ and he said, ‘oh no, made a nice cup of tea, went to bed’.


READ MORE HERE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-04-07/timothy-spall-i-was-terrified-making-new-poltergeist-drama-the-enfield-haunting

Ripper Street: Season Three Starts April 29th on BBC America

TV SERIES FINALE
March 26, 2015

As you may recall, BBC cancelled Ripper Street after two seasons. The series was later revived thanks to a deal between BBC and Amazon. Late last year, the new season of eight episodes was offered exclusively in the UK on Prime Instant Video. Now, BBC America has announced the premiere of season three in the States for Wednesday, April 29th.

Here are the details:

BBC AMERICA’S “RIPPER STREET” RETURNS FOR SEASON THREE ON APRIL 29, 10:00PM ET

The robbery of a goods train leads to a cataclysmic locomotive disaster on Leman Street, reuniting the men and their resentments to seek its cause

New York – March 26, 2015 – BBC AMERICA’s critically-acclaimed and BAFTA nominated original British drama Ripper Street returns in April. Picking up in 1894, four years after the culmination of season two, the new season reveals a vivid and sensual descent into the lives of the men and women who must live on the violent streets of Whitechapel in late Victorian London. Ripper Street premieres Wednesday, April 29, 10:00pm ET on BBC AMERICA.



Matthew Macfadyen returns as Detective Inspector Reid, Jerome Flynn as the newly promoted Detective Inspector Bennet Drake, and Adam Rothenberg as Captain Homer Jackson. MyAnna Buring also returns as Long Susan in the eight-part season.

Four years have passed since Reid bayed for Drake to end the life of Jedediah Shine. Four years that have seen the crime-fighting axis of Reid, Drake and Jackson split and isolated from one another. Drake has left London for Manchester to become the policeman – and man – he felt he could no longer be in Whitechapel. He is an Inspector himself now. Jackson has reverted to the man Reid plucked out of the Tenter Street brothel, a two-penny, sawbones, clap-doctor. And Reid has succumbed to his own shame and isolation, policing Whitechapel with a level of forensic detail and dedication that leads Chief Inspector Fred Abberline to fear for his old friend’s mental well-being.

Meanwhile, Long Susan has made good on her threats to both Captain Jackson and the dying Silas Dugan – she has separated from her husband, taken command of Duggan’s criminal empire and turned it into a legitimate property empire of huge philanthropic ambition. But such aspirations are costly, as her loyal but scheming solicitor Ronald Capshaw knows only too well.

All these resentments, fears and ambitions are soon forgotten, however, when two trains collide on the newly constructed bridge above Leman Street. It is a catastrophe which falls into Reid’s world and demands explanation. His pursuit reunites him with Drake and Jackson and sets him on his own collision course with his past and with the secret crimes of Long Susan and Ronald Capshaw.


READ MORE HERE: http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/ripper-street-season-three-starts-april-29th-on-bbc-america-36010/

Ripper Street on BBC America (FYI)

COMMUNITY VOICES
TV Q&A: 'Ripper Street,' 'Charlie Rose' and vacant positions on a local TV news outlet

Friday, 16 January 2015 09:14 AM Written by  Rob Owen



TV Q&A with Rob Owen

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This week's TV Q&A (after the "Read more" jump below) responds to questions about “Ripper Street,” “Charlie Rose” and vacant positions on a local TV news outlet. As always, thanks for reading and keep the questions coming.

- Rob Owen, Post-Gazette TV writer

Q: “Ripper Street,” canceled by the BBC and almost immediately saved by Amazon, ended its third series exclusive run on Amazon Prime UK on Boxing Day to both critical and viewer acclaim. It will be shown later this year on the BBC and on its sponsor here, BBC America. Since you will be attending TCA 2015 soon, if you have the opportunity to speak to anyone in the know at BBC America could you please ask them: When Ripper Street will air (the website says early 2015, whenever that means)? Will we get to see the "Amazon cut," where episodes lasted about 68 minutes, or the versions edited to 60 minutes for the BBC broadcast? And finally, is Amazon, BBC, Tiger Aspect and everyone else involved happy enough with its reception to begin a new story arc and continue to a fourth series? They left it in a satisfying place, but there is potential for much more. Seeing these characters continue to grow with the freedom that the Amazon sponsorship gives the production would be wonderful. Thank you!

- Linda, 48, Monroeville

Rob: First, thanks to Linda for sending me this question before the start of TCA so I could get an answer from a BBC America executive in person. Too often questions arrive just after my access.

BBC America senior vice president of programming Richard De Croce said no announcement has been made about when “Ripper Street” will return but he expects it will be late April after the second season of “Broadchurch” completes its run.

“We will air the Amazon cut, the original cut,” he said. “Very often with BBC dramas we’ll go to a 75- or 90-minute clock.”

As for the show’s future, looks like it’s wait and see.

“Potentially,” it could return again, he said. “The show went down very well in the UK so we’ll have to see how season three does but we really do love the show and we’re happy there is a really devoted fan base there as well.”


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Keeley Hawes: There is life in TV for mature women

THE TELEGRAPH
By Patrick Sawer and Hannah Furness
8:00AM GMT 25 Jan 2015



Keeley Hawes is a woman whose time has come. Or to put it less dramatically, the actress who starred in Ashes to Ashes, Line of Duty and Upstairs Downstairs has come of age.

This might seem a strange thing to say, given that she has been on our screens since her mid-teens, when she appeared in the likes of Dennis Potter’s Karaoke. But as Hawes herself points out, there has never been a better time to be an actress of certain years.

Hawes, who turns 39 next month, said: “I think that you only have to look at our TV screens at the moment to see maybe there is a change happening, with Olivia Colman in Broadchurch, Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Honourable Woman and Gillian Anderson in The Fall. These aren’t 20-year-olds. These are women with a bit of life experience.”

Her success in roles more suited to mature women than flighty teenagers or sultry twentysomethings – such as the hard-bitten and explosively violent policewoman Detective Inspector Lindsay Denton in BBC2’s Line of Duty – means she is less minded to complain about the parts offered to older actresses.

In an interview in next week’s Stella magazine, she says: “It would be an odd thing for me to bitch about, to be honest. And if that makes me not very feminist…”

But, she adds quickly: “I am a feminist, but I can’t bitch about something that I haven’t directly experienced. Of course, there are a lot of window-dressing roles and you make the best of what you can out of that. You are not going to turn work down when you have a family, when you have bills to pay, and you have to work. It would be all well and good to say, 'I’m not going to work unless it’s some big meaty part,’ but you would sit there for ever. You would be down the dole office.”

Her ability to accept “window-dressing roles” with grace, while excelling in more demanding parts, has made her one of the industry’s most appreciated figures, with fellow actors, directors and producers describing her as friendly, professional and modest.

It also means Hawes has been happy to play parts that do not call for a waif-like physique yet require some dressing down on the part of a naturally striking woman, such as the frumpy DI Denton.

“I’m not a size eight. I never have been,” she says. “In my youth I was somebody who didn’t leave home without a bit of mascara. That’s all out the window now; I am not that person. I’ve got three children and I really don’t care.”

Her ability to immerse herself in the decidedly unglamorous aspect of her roles can take those behind the camera by surprise.

She said: “I was asked to do a role once where I would have had to have worn really bad false teeth. The director literally couldn’t believe that I wouldn’t get there on the day and say, 'No, actually, forget it.’ But I couldn’t wait to not have any make-up. My vanity left me a long time ago.”


READ MORE HERE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11367885/Keeley-Hawes-There-is-life-in-TV-for-mature-women.html

Matthew Macfadyen (video) interview at the London Comedy Film Festival

Trailer for Lost in Karastan

Matthew MacFadyen discusses Ripper Street's third series

FEMALE FIRST
by Daniel Falconer | 11 November 2014

Matthew MacFadyen says that his character Detective Inspector Reid has "retreated from the world" in the new, third series of Ripper Street.

The eccentric police detective is back in the Victorian crime drama, but events now pick up in Whitechapel four years following the end of the second series.

Speaking at Ripper Street's series three premiere in London, Matthew explained: "Reid has retreated from the world and lost his erstwhile friends Jackson [Adam Rothenberg] and Drake [Jerome Flynn], one to women and booze and one to Manchester. He's sort of alone and lonely."

Although his character doesn't now have former colleagues on-side, Matthew states that he enjoyed trying to envisage what he'd been up to during the time passed.

"As an actor it's wonderful because there's four years you can sort of make up in your head."

Read more: http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/tv/news/matthew-macfadyen-discusses-ripper-street-556459.html#ixzz3P28O7s1G

Matthew Macfadyen Ripper star is dying to quit

MAIL ON LINE
By CHARLOTTE GRIFFITHS FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY



Matthew Macfadyen is set to kill off his Ripper Street character – so he can become a house-husband.

With his wife Keeley Hawes filming a three-part TV adaptation of J. K. Rowling’s novel The Casual Vacancy, Matthew, 39, wants his role as Detective Inspector Edmund Reid in Ripper Street to end.

Friends say he will spend more time with the couple’s children – Maggie, ten, Ralph, eight, and Keeley’s 14-year-old son Myles.

A pal says: ‘Matthew asked producers for his character to be killed off. He’s leaving on amicable terms.

'He’s been away filming a lot and he and Keeley take their acting roles in turn so the other can look after the kids.’

Are you kidding me?

READ MORE HERE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2780819/GIRL-ABOUT-TOWN-Rita-Ora-write-Burberry-song-help-fashion-brand-kids.html

Matthew Macfadyen: Ripper Street to return for brand new series next month on Amazon following BBC axe

DAILY MIRROR
Oct 03, 2014 00:00 By Tufayel Ahmed



Ripper Street will return for brand new episodes on Amazon Prime Instant Video next month, Mirror TV can exclusively reveal.

The eagerly anticipated third series of the popular drama, which was saved from the brink of cancellation by the internet streaming service earlier this year, will kick off on Friday, November 14, at 9pm with a big double bill before it airs on BBC One next year.

BBC axed Ripper Street last December but Amazon stepped in to revive the show after legions of fans petitioned for its return.

Moving online, new episodes will be released each Friday and the third series will culminate with an explosive finale on Boxing Day.

Amazon has also promised an extended length ‘Amazon cut’ of each episode featuring content that won’t be broadcast on the BBC.

Show creator and writer Richard Warlow commented: “In its design, series three of Ripper Street was always meant to be our most ambitious yet and we are delighted that Amazon has given us the creative freedom to make good on that ambition.

“With no restrictions on either the content or the length of each episode, we have been able to reassemble our magnificent cast and pitch them into a suit of stories which we hope will delight the millions of fans who, thanks to this unique partnership, will now be able to enjoy the show on Amazon Prime Instant Video this year, then on the BBC, and around the rest of the world, in 2015.”





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Matthew Macfadyen's Lost in Karastan: Montreal Festival features culturally diverse cinema

Will this be the last year for the Montreal World Film Festival? God forbid. There are those in Quebec who have been announcing its demise for awhile, but the hue and cry was especially loud this year. The MWFF has lost most of its public funding, in a city that prides itself on its public festivals, for reasons I won’t attempt to go into here. (Let’s just say that the pugnaciousness so many Québécois display toward the rest of Canada can just as often be directed at each other.)

Unlike the Hollywood launching pad for the next crop of Oscar hopefuls that the Toronto Film Festival has largely (if not entirely) become, Montreal remains what a film festival ought to be, a showcase for films from around the world that North Americans probably wouldn't otherwise get to see. It concentrates less on movies made for international distribution than on those made for viewers in their home countries. As such they provide a much better reflection of different cultures as they see themselves, which more than makes up for the occasional reference that goes over your head.

I still have a few more days to spend here, and hope to be returning next year. Some of the best of what I’ve seen so far:

LOST IN KARASTAN—This bone-dry British comedy about Emil Forester, in which a blocked filmmaker (Matthew Macfadyen) accepts an invitation to a film festival in a small central Asian republic, was inspired by actual events in the careers of director Ben Hopkins and his friend Pawel Pawlikowski (whose Ida recently enjoyed an extended run in Buffalo theaters). That presumably does not extend to the part where our hero is hired by Karastan’s dictator to film his country’s national epic, a project that only Emil takes at face value. And I doubt that either Hopkins or Pawlikowski has ever made a film whose tag line (per one of Emil’s posters) calls it “electroshock therapy for the cinematically brain-dead empire.” You have to love filmmakers making fun of their own inability to recognize reality when a camera gets in the way.


READ MORE HERE: http://artvoice.com/issues/v13n35/film_feature

Matthew Macfadyen: Lost In Karastan - new movie trailer

Lost in Karastan features a man conscripted “to make a movie — the epic of Karastani history,” says FFM senior programmer Martin Malina.

Sky ghost story to star Timothy Spall and Matthew Macfadyen

THE STAGE NEWS
By:  Matthew Hemley
September 11, 2014



Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson and Matthew Macfadyen are to star in a new three-part ghost story for Sky Living.

The drama, called The Enfield Haunting, will be directed by Kristoffer Nyholm, whose credits include Danish drama The Killing.



Produced by Eleven Films, it is based on the book This House is Haunted, by Guy Lyon Playfair, which has been adapted by Joshua St Johnston.

Spall said described the script as “full of emotional texture”.

“I am very much looking forward to working with the excellent team Sky Living and Eleven Films have assembled,” he said.

RED MORE HERE: http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2014/09/sky-ghost-story-star-timothy-spall-matthew-macfadyen/

I've had depression since I was 17, says Keeley Hawes: Actress, 38, believes she will never be completely free from its grip

EXPRESS
By: Kelby McNally
Published: Fri, September 5, 2014

The star - who once said she could relate to the dark detective character she plays in his BBC drama Line Of Duty - admitted that she believes she will find it hard to find a cure for her "chemical imbalance."

Speaking in a recent interview with Red magazine, the 38-year-old revealed that she has been suffering from the mental illness since she was 17 years old.

"[Therapy] hasn't worked for me. I've got a chemical imbalance that has to be managed. And then it's fine," she said.

READ MORE HERE: http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/507342/Keeley-Hawes-discusses-her-fight-with-mental-illness

‘Sherlock’s Louise Brealey Joins ‘Ripper Street’

ANGLOPHENIA
By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on June 20th, 2014

Louise Brealey, who plays the put-upon pathologist Molly Hooper in Sherlock, has been cast in the third season of Ripper Street as Dr. Amelia Frayn, who takes her place in a very specific moment in the advancement of medical science:

She told Radio Times: “I’m playing one of the first women doctors. I’m really excited because I did history at university and I love a bit of research. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson blazed the trail in the 1870s and in the intervening decade or so a few extremely intrepid and unusual women started learning to be doctors themselves.”



Her character runs a clinic in Whitechapel, which means her costume is very different to that of her female co-stars: “I’m dressed very soberly and the other girls are all so ravishing. I’m like a little Jenny Wren. Literally, where are my pretty feathers?!”

She also revealed a particular bond with her co-star, Matthew Macfadyen. “He’s so nice. Just lovely, funny and very kind. His family is from Northamptonshire, which is where I’m from, so we’ve had a Rose of the Shires bond.”

READ MORE HERE: http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2014/06/sherlocks-louise-brealey-joins-ripper-street/

(Photos) New series of axed BBC drama Ripper Street being filmed in Dublin today after being saved by online giant Amazon

DAILY MAIL
By LIZZIE EDMONDS
PUBLISHED: 12:59 EST, 11 June 2014 | UPDATED: 14:29 EST, 11 June 2014

 

The cast and crew of axed BBC drama Ripper Street were today filming the show's third series after the Victorian costume drama was saved by online giant Amazon.

The show, set in London's Whitechapel in 1889 - six months after the gruesome Jack The Ripper Murders, was axed by the BBC at the end of last year due to poor viewing figures.

There were also some issues with sound -  with dozens of viewers complaining to the BBC about  'meaningless mumbling' throughout the second series.

And, if today's pictures are anything to go by, filming for the latest series - which will see the return of crime-fighting duo Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn - appears to be going swimmingly.

Jerome Flynn - or Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake as he is known in the show - could be seen milling about on locations in full costume, chatting to numerous members of cast and crew.

Following the announcement in February, BBC drama boss Ben Stephenson said the deal was 'an exceptional opportunity' to bring the show back - while freeing up BBC money for new drama series.

Tiger Aspect’s Head of Drama, Will Gould added: 'In the past year we’ve transmitted two series of Ripper Street in the UK, had highs of eight million viewers, sold the show to over 150 countries, got Bafta nominated and voted Radio Times best show of the year, were cancelled and resurrected.


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Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg:Ripper returns to shoot gory scenes around city

HERALD.IE
BY MELANIE FINN – 06 JUNE 2014 12:00 AM



Here’s an unexpected sight - filming for series three of Ripper Street on the streets of Dublin this morning.

And this morning it was business as usual for the often-gruesome show as the cast and crew descended on the Custom House in Dublin’s north inner city.

In one scene, actress MyAnna Buring, who plays brothel madam Long Susan, is seen exiting the building showing blood-stained hands.

Also making a welcome return to the new series is Monaghan native Charlene McKenna, who plays former prostitute Rose.



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READ MORE HERE: http://www.herald.ie/news/ripper-returns-to-shoot-gory-scenes-around-city-30334300.html

Matthew Macfadyen: Ripper Street TV drama films in town...

LOUGHBOROUGH ECHO
Jun 01, 2014 13:00
 By Matt Jarram

Actors Matthew Macfadyen (Det. Insp. Edmund Reid) and Adam Rothenberg (Cpt. Homer Jackson) filming new series of drama Ripper Street at Manchester Town Hall Annex.

HEARTTHROB Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn have been using some of Loughborough’s most historic buildings to film scenes for a new series of Ripper Street.

The two actors alongside Adam Rothenberg used the backdrops and scenery of Taylor’s Bell Foundry, in Freehold Street.

There was also filming at Great Central Railway’s Quorn and Rothley station, with the historic railway giving the crew access to some of the station’s train stock.

Ripper Street is a gritty period drama from the BBC set in Whitechapel in London’s East End in 1889, six months after the infamous Jack the Ripper murders.

The first episode was broadcast on December 30, 2012 during BBC One’s Christmas schedule. It was reported that series two would be the last, but it looks like the crew are back for filming of a series three.

Before arriving in Loughborough, the three actors had been filming in Manchester.

Matthew Macfadyen is well-known for playing Mr Darcy in Pride & Prejudice alongside Keira Knightley as well as films that include John Birt in Frost/Nixon and Athos in The Three Musketeers

Alongside him was Jerome Flynn, one half of 1990s singing duo Robson and Jerome and currently starring as Bronn in the fourth series of Game of Thrones.

Adam Rothenberg is known for starring in Mad Money with Diane Keaton and The Immigrant.

READ MORE HERE: http://www.loughboroughecho.net/news/local-news/ripper-street-films-in-loughborough-7188419

Ripper Street producers under fire after filmmaker attacked by on-set medic

TIMES OF LONDON
Jules Mattsson
Last updated at 12:01AM, May 31 2014

Filmmaker Charlie Veitch is forcefully removed from the set of Ripper Street by a ‘medic’

The producers of Ripper Street have come under fire after a medic on the set in Manchester was captured on camera claiming to be a police officer and forcefully trying to stop a man filming.



Charlie Veitch, a filmmaker and free speech activist, says he saw people bunched up on the street in period costumes using iPads so decided to film it using his small camcorder.

READ MORE HERE: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4104689.ece