BBC America has released a new trailer for ‘Ripper Street‘ which will air on BBC One in the UK.

History’s most notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper tore through London. Now, the detectives who were on the case have to pick up the pieces.

The eight-part series stars Matthew Macfadyen (Anna Karenina, Spooks, Pride and Prejudice), Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones), Adam Rothenberg (Alcatraz), MyAnna Buring (The Twilight Saga, White Heat) and David Dawson (Luther, Secret Diary of a Call Girl)

Haunted by the failure to catch London’s most evil killer, Inspector Edmund Reid (Macfadyen) now heads up the notorious H Division, the toughest district in London’s East End. Charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel, Inspector Reid is soon drawn deep into the seedy criminal underworld of Victorian London — where fear always lurks that each new murder could mark the return of The Ripper.

‘Ripper Street‘ is due to air in the UK on BBC One (date still to be announced), and in the US on, Saturday Jan 19 at 9/8c on BBC America.