ITV's Peter Sutcliffe drama The Long Shadow: How to watch and full cast list

ITV1 The Long Shadow: Is it based on a true story? Who was Peter Sutcliffe?

The new drama investigates one of the largest police cases in British history

How did Peter Sutcliffe get caught? Yorkshire Ripper focus of ITV's The Long Shadow

ITV thriller The Long Shadow will look at the huge investigation and manhunt to track down the Yorkshire Ripper

ITV's Peter Sutcliffe drama The Long Shadow: How to watch and full cast list

ITV's new drama, The Long Shadow, is based on the hunt for murder Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.

ITV’s The Long Shadow trivialises the crimes of Peter Sutcliffe

Let’s imagine, just for a moment, that ITV’s new drama The Long Shadow is not about the real crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, but those of a fictional serial killer who terrorised women in the north of England between 1975 and 1981. All other things being equal, what do I make of it, having seen two of its seven episodes? It strikes me, a veteran of the retro police procedural, as not much more than workmanlike. There are some fine performances – Kath…

How The Long Shadow brought the harrowing Peter Sutcliffe case to TV

A new ITV series highlights the flaws in the search for the murderer who terrorised the north of England in the late Seventies, and shines a spotlight on the victims’ stories, its cast and creator tell Katie Rosseinsky