If you've previously found yourself offended by the grisly tone of BBC One's Ripper Street then we hope you've located the remote control by now. If not, episode three's opening sequence - which featured vomit, butchery and a gruesome death - would be more than enough to put you off your Sunday roast.
The sickness and gore continues apace this week, as Whitechapel is hit by a cholera scare, with the ever level-headed Detective Inspector Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) determined to contain the chaos.
A scene early in the episode, in which Captain Jackson (Adam Rothenberg) takes apparent pleasure in watching his apprentice Hobbs (Jonathan Barnwell) squirm at the autopsy he is helping to perform, almost feels like Ripper Street setting out its stall. The message is clear - if you can't handle the bloodshed, get out of the dead room.
/Don't be fooled by the period setting and impressive production design, this show is far from classy fare, but it remains rollicking good fun nevertheless. "Who are you?" a lady of the night asks our heroes at one point. "The police, wench!" Jerome Flynn's Bennet Drake barks back. Yes, Ripper Street is fast becoming The Sweeney 1889.
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