ITV1 has renewed Whitechapel for a fourth series, bringing back the crime drama in which modern-day detectives find themselves chasing killers whose crimes echo the East End’s grisly past.
Created by Ben Court and Caroline Ip and made by Carnival Films, the show is set at Whitechapel CID, where DI Joseph Chandler and his team investigate present-day cases that mirror infamous historical crimes, beginning with a Jack the Ripper copycat in the first series and the Kray twins in the second.
Rupert Penry-Jones returns as the fastidious Chandler, alongside Phil Davis as the world-weary DS Ray Miles and Steve Pemberton as Edward Buchan, the amateur historian whose knowledge of the area’s dark history keeps proving useful. The new series will see the team pulled into fresh cases steeped in the same unsettling sense of history repeating.