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Ripper Street will return for brand new episodes on Amazon Prime Instant Video next month, Mirror TV can exclusively reveal.

The eagerly anticipated third series of the popular drama, which was saved from the brink of cancellation by the internet streaming service earlier this year, will kick off on Friday, November 14, at 9pm with a big double bill before it airs on BBC One next year.

BBC axed Ripper Street last December but Amazon stepped in to revive the show after legions of fans petitioned for its return.

Moving online, new episodes will be released each Friday and the third series will culminate with an explosive finale on Boxing Day.

Amazon has also promised an extended length ‘Amazon cut’ of each episode featuring content that won’t be broadcast on the BBC.

Show creator and writer Richard Warlow commented: “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.

“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.”

Stars Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and MyAnna Buring will all reprise their roles in the new series which picks up in 1894, four years after series two.

The new episodes will follow Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Macfadyen) and D.I. Bennett Drake (Flynn) continuing their efforts to keep order in violent Victorian era Whitechapel.

Macfadyen said: “Delighted and excited to be back for a third series of Ripper. Thank you to Amazon, thank you to our fans who wanted more, and thank you to our wonderful writers and producers for giving us the most thoroughly brilliant, gripping and heart-rending opening episodes."

Flynn added: "There are many great stories and twists and turns for all the characters. The Drake we meet in episode one has certainly been on a journey since viewers last saw him".

And leading lady Buring - who plays Long Susan Hart - said: “The overwhelming support our show got from its fans, and the backing from Amazon has enabled us to return to Ripper Street for a third season. The scripts and storylines have been allowed to be bigger and better and I am so very excited to have been a part of this show and what definitely feels like our best season yet."

Fans can find out more about the third series of Ripper Street at www.amazon.co.uk/ripperstreet

Win 2 tickets to the World Premiere of Ripper Street in London on 6 November here.

See brand new pictures from series three below!

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