BBC Worldwide to showcase 'Ripper Street'at Mipcom

MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC Worldwide will be hosting the stars of the new crime drama Ripper Street at next month?s television trade event Mipcom 2012 in Cannes, France.

Matthew Macfadye, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg fly down to Cannes to launch the series at a special event on 8 October. Ahead of Mipcom, BBC Worldwide is pleased to announce two more pre-sales of the title with Canada?s Space and NRK in Norway picking up the eight-part series.

BBC Worldwide Sales & Distribution, president, MD Steve Macallister said, "Acclaimed writers, superb acting talent and the highest of production values are all evident in our rich and varied Mipcom drama slate. With such shows as Ripper Street and The Paradise, set in the Victorian era; WW2 drama Spies of Warsaw; Jane Campion?s Top of the Lake set in modern day New Zealand and the futuristic Doctor Who (S7) we can offer truly unrivalled storytelling spanning three centuries and beyond."

Ripper Street has already pre-sold to Network Ten in Australia and is a co production with BBC AMERICA. The drama is set in and around Whitechapel in London?s East End in 1889, during the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders. The action centres on the notorious H Division, which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic dark streets of London.

BBC Worldwide will also launch Oscar winner Jane Campion?s new 6 part mystery drama Top of the Lake starring Elisabeth Moss and Holly Hunter. Jane Campion will take centre stage at MIPCOM for a unique Creative Talks interview, alongside her co-writer Gerard Lee, on 9 October.

Other drama titles brand new to the market are The Paradise, Spies of Warsaw and A Young Doctor?s Notebook. The Paradise, set amidst the Victorian splendour of Britain?s first department store, stars Sarah Lancashire (Upstairs Downstairs, Lark Rise to Candleford), Patrick Malahide (Game of Thrones, The World is Not Enough) and Matthew McNulty (Misfits, Lark Rise to Candleford) amongst others. The two ninety minute film adaptations of Alan Furst?s acclaimed novel, Spies of Warsaw, evoke a Europe stumbling into the Second World War. Filming took place in Poland earlier this year with David Tennant and Janet Montgomery in the lead roles. Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe star in A Young Doctor?s Notebook, a wry comedy drama about a young doctor?s fledgling career as he begins his new life in a small, backwards Russian village. The series is based on semi-autobiographical short stories by Bulgakov.

The returning shows Doctor Who and Misfits complete BBC Worldwide?s drama slate for Mipcom 2012.