Ripper Street (BBC)

Thanks for that Liz, I really liked this drama!.....:)

Interesting. Season one was sort of weak, things picked up by season 2 and the elphant man episodes were quite strong, but it tended to fall into achronistic plotting (guess which social issue of the week we'll be addressing this week) and then characters started doing bizzare things that made no sense at all or changed their character completely.
I live near Clancy Barracks where the series was filmed and the sets have all been struck, I hear the builders that bought the site intend demolishing 'ripper street' pretty soon, so I don't know what the likilhood of the show returning to Ireland to shoot are. It's a shame that barracks has been turned into a mass of pokey apartments, it's been a consistant asset to the capital as a film location, a closed set with victorian tenements and a variety of victorian buildings close to the Phoenix Park and Kilmainham jail.

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Yeah, delighted. Currently filming in Collins Barracks.

Is it? Film productions shoot there very regularly due to the closed nature of the barracks and the complete victorian tenement streets and diverse period building available, but half of those are gone now since the apartment were built and it looks like the builders have started work in Collins Barracks again.

It's sad, the barracks were a great resourse for period dramas but not for much longer is seems. I'd say Ripper St. will soon be looking for a new home.