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Whitechapel is on ITV1 at 9pm Monday it seems to be a modern day version of Jack The Ripper, quite looking forward to it

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i'll be watching it (if i remember) i love anything about real life murders

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Yes, I think this looks juicy and gruesome, will watch it ... :D

Enjoyed the one before too 'Unforgiven' in three parts ... that was excellent.

Find the main actor in this is a bit creepy ... googled as couldn't remember his name. Funny thing is if you put in 'Whitechapel ITV' seems to be a warning that 'this site may harm your computer'. Further warning from Google supposedly when you go in .... don't understand what that is all about .... :confused:

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Here's your answer Kate.
'Human error' shuts down Google - Times Online

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Thanks Caz for that ... thought it was going to be some sort of advert at first for this macabre thriller ...:D

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It looked quite good on the clips last night, think I'll be having a look tomorrow.

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Anyway, the name of the actor I find abhorrent is Phil Davis, now that Google is working ....sorry, but to me he is sooo ugly, and makes my skin crawl; won't stop me watching though.

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He's a exellent actor though Kate. I like all the other stuff he;s done. Hope we get it over here.

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Yes, he is .. feel bad about calling him ugly .. just something about him that makes me shudder... actually, favours my ex husband a bit .... :D:D

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should be good make a change from the flipping soaps

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HA Ha Ha, good one Kate. Whatched Ouadrophenia a couple of weeks ago, Phil Davis, was in that, with Mark Wingett from the Bill. Also Ray Winstone, and Sting. First time Ive ever seen it, Cashy & Wynonnie will be surprised.

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Lol, he has a 'lived in' face, but he's still a great actor.

He was brilliant in the Mike Leigh films 'Grown Ups', 'High Hopes', and 'Vera Drake'.

It's on at the same time as 'Backstairs Billy', so will have to record one of them to watch later.:D

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:eek: you've ONLY JUST watched Quadrophenia? :eek: i've lost count of how many times i've seen that film

its a classic, i've seen it that many times i know most of the script off by heart

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I love the film too, and saw it at the cinema when it was released in '79.

It was made on a relative shoe string, and when I watched it the other week I noticed that although it's set in the sixties, the cinema in Brighton was showing the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait, and all the shoppers watching the mods 'n' rockers rioting were dressed in their seventies flares.

Still didn't spoil it though, even seeing Toyah at her heaviest.:D

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I missed it..though I reckon it was some polish or recent immigrant that done it :D

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Pointing at the expert on the Ripper at the moment who is giving the young detective the help .. but who knows.

Love this character of the boss detective (sorry didn't pick up the rank:D). Cleverly written ... him all tidy like; the others all smelly and messy.

That Phil still doesn't do owt for me though ... he's little as well.

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thought it was a bag of crap. bet it really brassed the real plod off.

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I wonder if one of the present day Queen's sons will be in the frame for it?

:D

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could be cos he was'nt in Chelsea.:D

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Not bad for a snowed in Monday night, but there was no good reason for all the inaccuracies - even allowing for artistic license. The first body was found by a PCSO.....on duty at 2am? This is total nonsense. I don't know about Lancashire’s finest, but the Met lot knock off no later than 11pm. There was no excuse for that.

Neither was there an excuse for starting the Ripper tour out by the Order of St John, in Clerkenwell - which is more than a mile to the west of the nearest murder . Most Ripper tours start by Tower Hill - I know, the half wits forking out their Euro's invariably block the tube exit. More than once I have had to shove 'em out the way. Still, that is what we have come to expect from our bad-mannered continental cousins.

There is a pub called the Ten Bells, which in the Ripper's original escapades is where every one of his victims supposedly drank. We may see this pop up in the next episodes. Some time ago, it was renamed the Jack the Ripper; however, this did not go down to well with the local lesbians who were forever spoiling people's drinks by parading up and down outside the place protesting until the pub reverted to it's original name.

Talking about lesbian romps, just round the corner from this establishment is a fruit and veg shop with an original Victorian/Edwardian exterior. I can't remember the name of it, but don't be surprised if that appears as well. That is owned by the lass from Accy...the one who wrote about oranges and other dodgy goings on in our home town. I can't just remember her name, either.

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Jeanette Winterson

Verde's?

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Jeanette Winterson is the Accy lesbian and purveyor of oranges, and other fruits.:D

I used to go out with someone who lived on Fournier Steet, and the sound of those Ripper tours, heard through the shutters, used to drive me mad...nearly as much as the call to prayer.:D

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You must be a closet muslim and been listening out for the call to Prayer....the Whitechapel Mosque is a good half mile from Fournier Street and any noise coming from there is easily drowned out by the Commercial St traffic.

The tours, though, are a total pain in the arse. They are the most popular of all the capital's guided tours and sometimes I have seen a hundred plus following their guide like demented sheep. Still, for the guide, at six or even ten quid a throw, thats not a bad little earner for a couple of hours work. The Ten Bells, by the way, bars the tour walks.

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I've got acute aural senses, but not that good.;)

'At its eastern end, Fournier Street finishes with the London Jamme Masjid' (Great Mosque)
Fournier Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I used to sit in the bath and shout across the street that I wasn't coming to pray...just yet.:D

My friend lived next door to Gilbert & George, and was the first to move into the street and start the gentrification of the sweat shops.

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did anyone watch it last night?

i have a hunch, i may be way off the mark with this one BUT i reckon its the big police boss who is murdering those women, Commander Anderson or whatever he's called, he has all the inside knowledge of when things are going to take place, he seemed really edgy last night AND its been said numerous times that he is trying to fast track DI Chandler, therefore trying to help him out


like i said, just a hunch, we'll find out next week for sure :D

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They did mention last night the theory that the original Ripper might have been a Royal, but I can't see them fingering one of the present Queen's son for this one.

I love Steve Pemberton, and I suspect it may be him, but dressed up as Tubbs, like he was in League of Gentlemen.

A local Ripper, for local tarts.

:D

http://www.geocities.com/gwaddingham/char4.jpg

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they never proved the original was royalty, it was just assumed


he's a copycat killer, i still reckon its the copper

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Flashy; the Linda La Plant of Accy Wed:D

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No, the royalty/Duke of Clarence idea is just a theory, just as the Masonic one is, that they also mentioned last night.

There'll always be theories as to the identity of the original Ripper, but too much time has passed for anyone ever to know now.

Happily I'm out of the frame, as it was a year or two before I moved there, so my alibi is watertight.:D

I thought it was a bit far fetched last night, particularly the car chase, with the press driving the prime suspect round and about.

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far fetched is putting it mild.:rolleyes: the dummies will never catch me.:D

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i'm enjoying it though, its a shame it finishes next week :(

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What an awful end to this mini series, couldn't believe it, after three weeks slogging they still couldn't catch the git and let him drown himself apparently, what utter tosh

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my sentiments exactly Jay, i thought the ending was utter crap