Amazon cancels Ripper Street

Ripper Street, that good-looking Victorian police show starring Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg about life in Whitechapel immediately after the Jack The Ripper murders, has been cancelled by Amazon, it was reported today. The fourth series recently debuted on Amazon earlier this year (and will come to the BBC later this year), and will return for a fifth and final series on the on-demand service early next year.

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Coming soon to BBC4: Danish crime drama Follow The Money

Yes, we have one week to go on Trapped – that fantastic Icelandic crime drama – but we’re casting our eyes a week after, wondering what will take its place in BBC4’s Saturday 9pm slot. Y’know, the Scandi Slot. Now we know. Sort of. In an unconfirmed kind of way.