Eight new episodes of the period crime drama will air on BBC One and BBC America in 2014.

Currently airing on Sunday nights, Ripper Street has so far been attracting a consolidated average of 7.1million viewers with a 22.9 per cent audience share.

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Creator and writer Richard Warlow commented: “I am enormously grateful to have been given the opportunity to return to ‘H’ Division once more and will be working tirelessly to ensure that those who have joined us each week will find ever more compelling crime-fighting thrills down on Ripper Street the second time around. The series will move forward into the 1890s: the death rattle of a century coming to a close, the labour pains of a modern world on the rise. It is this sense of climax and calamity that, week by week, our heroes will confront with conviction and heroism.”

Will Gould, Head of Drama Tiger Aspect Productions added: “Series 2 will again explore the dark and extraordinary secrets of the Victorian world, and will further mine the hopes and hidden complexities of our heroes.”

Series 2 will begin filming this spring.

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