Episodes of the third series of the critically-acclaimed British drama to be released at 9pm every Friday from 14 November exclusively for Amazon Prime Instant Video members, before broadcast on BBC One and BBC America in 2015

First and second episodes to be released as a double bill to launch the series at 9pm on Friday 14 November

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LONDON - 3 October, 2014 - The much anticipated third series of critically-acclaimed British drama Ripper Street premieres this autumn exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video - the UK’s largest movie and TV streaming service.

A double bill of the first and second episodes will be available for Amazon Prime Instant Video members at 9pm on Friday 14th November, with a further six episodes to be released weekly at 9pm every Friday. The series will culminate in a series finale to be released on Boxing Day, Friday 26 December. Fans can find out more about the third series of the show at www.amazon.co.uk/ripperstreet.

The series was commissioned by Amazon from the producers, Tiger Aspect Productions and Lookout Point, after legions of Ripper Street fans petitioned for its return. The series is co-produced in the US by BBC America and will screen on BBC One and BBC America in 2015 after broadcast on Amazon Prime Instant Video, as well as being distributed globally by BBC Worldwide.

Amazon has also today announced that episodes of Ripper Street Series Threeavailable on Amazon Prime Instant Video will include exclusive scenes that will not be shown on the BBC. The show that is broadcast on BBC One and BBC America in 2015 will be edited to the traditional one hour format.

“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,” said the show’s creator and writer Richard Warlow. “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.”

Amazon announced the commissioning of the filming of a third series of Ripper Street in March 2014 following two highly popular series broadcast on the BBC, during which time the gritty British drama was nominated for a BAFTA and voted the best show of 2013 by readers of the Radio Times. Filming for the third series took place over the summer in Manchester, Loughborough and Dublin.

“We know there are a huge number of fans out there who want more of the gripping storylines we’ve come to expect from BAFTA-nominated writer Richard Warlow and we’re delighted to be bringing the third series of this show to our customers exclusively this autumn” said Chris Bird, Head of Content Acquisition at Amazon. “From what we’ve seen from the scripts and first edit it’s clear that this series has raised the bar, we’re confident that Ripper Street fans will be thrilled with what they see.”

Ripper Street Series Three will return audiences to the notorious 'H' Division, the police precinct charged with keeping order on the meanest beat imaginable: late Victorian Whitechapel.

Once again starring Matthew Macfadyen as Detective Inspector Reid, Jerome Flynn as the newly promoted Detective Inspector Bennet Drake, Adam Rothenberg as Captain Homer Jackson, MyAnna Buring as Long Susan, the third series promises to be an ever more vivid and sensual descent into the lives of the men and women who must live on those violent streets.

The eight episode third series picks up in 1894, four years after the culmination of series two, years in which Reid, Drake, Jackson and Long Susan have been split and divided by those events. As this series begins, however, the violent heist of a goods train sets off a cataclysmic chain reaction that is to return them to each other's side, before spiralling uncontrollably toward a conclusion that will leave them changed forever.

Prime Instant Video is the only subscription service in the UK where TV fans can watch the first two series of the critically acclaimed drama, viewed by millions on BBC1. Followers of the BAFTA nominated show can stream all eight episodes of series one and all eight episodes of series two in full high definition, giving viewers the chance to fully immerse themselves in this captivating crime drama inspired by life in London’s Whitechapel in the late 19th century ahead of the release of the third series this autumn exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video.

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