3 part mini-series for ITV1 which transmitted February 2009. The DVD is now available for purchase.
Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis and Steve Pemberton lead the cast in a darkly atmospheric thriller, WHITECHAPEL.
Set against the contrasting facades of Whitechapel, London, a series of bloody, tragic and impossible crimes suggest someone is carrying out copycat Jack the Ripper murders 120 years after the killer first struck.
In a city under the constant surveillance of CCTV and safe in the knowledge that DNA evidence helps catch even the most dangerous criminal, this modern day Ripper still manages to recreate the slaughter with alarming accuracy while mirroring the red herrings and twisted idiosyncrasies connected to the original case.
The murders are investigated by three unlikely heroes: Joseph Chandler (Penry-Jones), a fast-tracked, media savvy DI on his first big murder case Ray Miles (Davis), a front-line, hard-bitten DS, nearing retirement, now saddled with a boss who would rather talk about Emotional Intelligence than gut feeling and Edward Buchan (Pemberton), the expert on myths and legends behind unexplained or violent deaths: an eccentrically brilliant Ripperologist.
A modern police force is fighting an old adversary; an adversary who was never caught. Our heroes have a race against time to prevent further bloodshed.
STARRING: Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis, Steve Pemberton, Alex Jennings, Claire Rushbrook, George Rossi, Johnny Harris, Christopher Fulford and Sam Stockman
