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PREMIERES SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 10/9C ON BBC AMERICA
Premieres Sunday, August 26th on Showcase (Canada)
Official Site ● Twitter ● YouTube
It’s hard to walk a straight line in a crooked town.
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From Academy Award®-winner Barry Levinson and Emmy® Award-winner Tom Fontana, “Copper” is a gripping crime drama series set in 1860s New York City. Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones, “MI-5″, an Irish-American former boxer turned cop, returns from the Civil War to find his wife missing and his daughter dead. As he patrols the streets of New York’s notorious Five Points neighborhood, he seeks the truth about what happened to his family with the help of two wartime friends: the wayward son of a wealthy industrialist, and a talented African-American doctor. The three men share a secret from their experience in battle that links their lives forever.
Premieres Sunday, August 26th on Showcase (Canada)
Official Site ● Twitter ● YouTube
It’s hard to walk a straight line in a crooked town.
[YT]6FC5lkydS44[/YT]
From Academy Award®-winner Barry Levinson and Emmy® Award-winner Tom Fontana, “Copper” is a gripping crime drama series set in 1860s New York City. Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones, “MI-5″, an Irish-American former boxer turned cop, returns from the Civil War to find his wife missing and his daughter dead. As he patrols the streets of New York’s notorious Five Points neighborhood, he seeks the truth about what happened to his family with the help of two wartime friends: the wayward son of a wealthy industrialist, and a talented African-American doctor. The three men share a secret from their experience in battle that links their lives forever.
Producers
The series is created by Tom Fontana (“Oz,” “Homicide: Life on the Streets,” “St. Elsewhere” and Will Rokos (“Monster’s Ball,” “Southland”. Among the executive producers are Barry Levinson (“Good Morning Vietnam,” “Rain Man,” “You Don’t Know Jack”, Cineflix Media Co-CEO Glen Salzman and Cineflix Studios President Christina Wayne (“Broken Trail” and executive in charge of “Mad Men”, Fontana and Rokos.
Cast
The cast includes Tom Weston-Jones (“MI-5″, Franka Potente (“The Bourne Supremacy,” “Run Lola Run”, Kyle Schmid (“Blood Ties,” “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”, Anastasia Griffith (“Royal Pains,” “Damages”, Ato Essandoh (“Damages”, Kevin Ryan (“Tripping Tommy”, Tanya Fischer (“The Defenders,” “Life on Mars”, Dylan Taylor (“Covert Affairs”, Ron White (“The Line”, Kiara Glasco (“Angel Duty”, Tessa Thompson (“Heroes” and David W. Keeley (“Rookie Blue”.
Plot
Most of “Copper’s” action will take place in the teeming Irish immigrant neighborhood of Five Points, but the series will also frequent the Upper East Side/Fifth Avenue mansions of the aristocracy and the emerging neighborhood of Harlem founded by New York’s burgeoning African-American population. True to any great cop show, “Copper” will feature well-crafted, close-ended police investigation mysteries with twists, turns and surprises. Set in the 1860s, plot lines relating to the Civil War permeate the series while it also exploring themes of power, politics and race in a country and community wrestling with rapid social change.
Kevin Corcoran played by Tom Weston-Jones (“MI-5,” aka “Spooks” is a rugged and confident Irish cop who patrols the streets of Five Points and tries to follow his moral compass despite the blunt realities facing his turbulent community. Each week, we join him on his emotional and relentless quest to learn the truth behind the disappearance of his wife and the death of his daughter. Sharing a unique friendship with two men from two different walks of life who fought with him in the Civil War, Corcoran must navigate the contrasting worlds of Fifth Avenue and Harlem. Corcoran’s compatriot and friend Morehouse, played by Canadian Kyle Schmid (“Blood Ties,” “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”, is the son of a wealthy New York industrialist residing on Fifth Avenue; Freeman, another veteran, is an African American physician/forensics expert who lives in Harlem and is not afraid to question white authority. We soon learn that the three men share a secret from their experience on the battlefield that will link their lives forever.
Rounding out the cast are leading ladies Anastasia Griffith (“Royal Pains,” “Damages”, as the sophisticated and spirited Elizabeth Haverford and Franka Potente (“The Bourne Supremacy,” “Run Lola Run” who plays Eva Heissan, a shrewd businesswoman and the Madam of Eva’s Paradise. Additionally Steve Cosens (“Durham County” has signed on as Director of Photography, John Blackie (“Hell on Wheels” is Production Designer and Delphine White (“Breakout Kings” is Costume Designer.
BBC America general manager, Perry Simon reveals more about the anticipated series, “In the spirit of great BBC drama it’s brimming with fascinating and complex characters, giving us the opportunity to cast the best actors from both sides of the Atlantic.’
“We’re thrilled to have Tom Weston-Jones, Kyle Schmid, and Anastasia Griffith—all stars in the making—join the cast of ‘Cooper,’” said Christina Wayne, President of Cineflix Studios. “Franka Potente brings her undeniable talent and feature experience to the mix.”