Call it Law and Order: Special Victorian Unit. Six months after the last of five brutal murders attributed to Jack the Ripper, the mutilated body of another London prostitute is discovered. Has Jack returned, or is some other evil at work? Detective Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) suspects a copycat. Working with a brutish detective sergeant (Jerome Flynn) and an American forensics expert (Adam Rothenberg), Reid tracks the killer through the East End’s seedy streets in the premiere episode of this acclaimed import from the BBC. Saturday, Jan. 19, at 9 p.m., BBC America
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