Ripper Street resurrected by Amazon deal

Text below lifted from BBC News - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26351457

Victorian crime drama Ripper Street is to return to screens via Amazon's video on demand service.

The BBC cancelled the show in December due to poor ratings, but Amazon has now commissioned a third season for its Prime Instant Video service - formerly known as Lovefilm Instant.

The show will premiere on Amazon and screen on the BBC a few months later. Amazon has also acquired the UK subscription streaming rights of the first two series of the show.

The BBC will continue to make a contribution to production costs of the new season, while other broadcast partners - including BBC America and the Irish Film Board - will remain on board as part of the new arrangement. Filming on the new series - which will continue to be produced by Tiger Aspect and Lookout Point - will begin in May.

A date for its premiere on Amazon Prime has yet to be determined. The programme's makers said the third series would go ahead as originally planned with eight episodes, the same budget and "slightly more bells and whistles" than the previous two series.

Good news for us Victorian fans however I suspect that the campaign to bring it back was irrelevant as this was just a marketing ploy by BBC, plan I suspect was never to cancel the show but just to find alternate funding.

We’ll never know, however at least we’ll still have a decent show with the same production team!