
The first and second series were broadcast in the United States on six consecutive Wednesday evenings beginning 26 October 2011 on the BBC America cable network. Ī third series was commissioned by ITV in March 2011, which was extended to six episodes as three two-part stories.

The first episode of this second series was broadcast on 11 October 2010. The first series was broadcast in the UK on 2 February 2009 and depicted the search for a modern copycat killer replicating the murders of Jack the Ripper.Ī second series was commissioned by ITV in September 2009 with the focus on the Kray twins.

Whitechapel is a British police procedural, produced by Carnival Films and distributed by BBC Worldwide, in which detectives in London's Whitechapel district deal with murders which replicated historical crimes.
