Viewers blown away by new Yorkshire Ripper series The Long Shadow

The Long Shadow: ITV’s powerful new drama focuses on the Yorkshire Ripper’s victims, not the murderer

The crimes of Jack the Ripper have receded so far into time’s rear-view mirror that they now feel more like a work of fiction than actual history.

Viewers blown away by new Yorkshire Ripper series The Long Shadow

David Morrissey and Toby Jones star in ITV's The Long Shadow, a new drama series about the crimes of Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe

Viewers praise ITV's chilling new Yorkshire Ripper drama The Long Shadow

The drama focuses on the five-year hunt to find the Yorkshire Ripper and the impact his crimes had on his victim's families

Yorkshire Ripper drama The Long Shadow has a leering fixation with the gory details

ITV show seeks to shift the focus to the victims of the Yorkshire Ripper, but it actually ends up glamourising of one of Britain’s worst ever serial killers