Fans of gritty period crime dramas are running out of time to watch Ripper Street, as the series starring Matthew Macfadyen is leaving Netflix on 26 March after being added to the streamer last year.

Studious viewers will recall that Shine, the godfather of all bent coppers, was not only the murderer of the Elephant Man but also the arch enemy of Matthew Macfadyen’s Edmund Reid, who urged his old ...

Fortunately he has some capable and determined assistance on hand. Detective Sergeant Drake (Jerome Flynn) is big, rough and ugly, an officer quite happy to go undercover and take a battering as a ...