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This new BBC show sounds interesting. Like Gangs of New York for TV:
"At first glance, you could almost mistake BBC America's powerful new dramatic series, "Copper," for a classic American Western. In a way, you wouldn't be wrong, despite the fact that the story of Irish immigrant cops is set in New York's teeming Five Points neighborhood in 1864.
The show is a milestone for BBCA because it is the first original scripted drama for a network known for importing the best of British TV, shows like "The Hour," "Doctor Who" and "Luther." "Copper" is not only made in the United States, but is made by veterans of American telly: co-creator (with Will Rokos) Tom Fontana and his producing partner, director Barry Levinson ("Homicide: Life on the Street," "Oz").
The series, premiering Sunday night, focuses on Irish-born cop Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones), who sometimes seems to be only a few points on the moral compass away from the thugs, thieves, murderers and child molesters he pursues with ruthless zeal in Five Points.
The difference between Corky and the human vermin he chases is that Corky believes in right and wrong, despite how much that belief has been tested, first by the bloodshed of the Civil War, but mostly because he returned home to find his wife gone and his young daughter murdered."
"At first glance, you could almost mistake BBC America's powerful new dramatic series, "Copper," for a classic American Western. In a way, you wouldn't be wrong, despite the fact that the story of Irish immigrant cops is set in New York's teeming Five Points neighborhood in 1864.
The show is a milestone for BBCA because it is the first original scripted drama for a network known for importing the best of British TV, shows like "The Hour," "Doctor Who" and "Luther." "Copper" is not only made in the United States, but is made by veterans of American telly: co-creator (with Will Rokos) Tom Fontana and his producing partner, director Barry Levinson ("Homicide: Life on the Street," "Oz").
The series, premiering Sunday night, focuses on Irish-born cop Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones), who sometimes seems to be only a few points on the moral compass away from the thugs, thieves, murderers and child molesters he pursues with ruthless zeal in Five Points.
The difference between Corky and the human vermin he chases is that Corky believes in right and wrong, despite how much that belief has been tested, first by the bloodshed of the Civil War, but mostly because he returned home to find his wife gone and his young daughter murdered."
