Go behind the badge of BBC America’s COPPER – and witness the birth of the NYPD in this exclusive behind-the-scenes look at this compelling all new original series.
Discover how the “violent confrontations” of the New York City Draft Riots of 1863 rocked the city & the thousands of Irish immigrants – and why “being a New York cop was the #1 part of their identity.”
Plus: find out from Series Co-Creator and Executive Producer, Emmy® Award-Winner Tom Fontana (Homicide: Life on the Streets, Oz) about doing “a cop show set in the 1860s… without all this stuff, no DNA, no machines” and why Executive Producer, Academy Award® winner Barry Levinson (Good Morning Vietnam, Rain Man) was keen to place our detectives in “a messy, confusing time… [with] bigotry, prejudice & crime.”
Want more Copper? Check out the Ultimate Series Playlist only on BBC America’s YouTube channel for more: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDEC0A2F8D12F8F57&feature=plcp
COPPER is a gripping cop drama set in 1860s New York City, and centers on Kevin Corcoran, an intense, rugged Irish-immigrant cop working the city’s notorious Five Points neighborhood. Corcoran is struggling to maintain his moral compass in a turbulent world while on an emotional and relentless quest to learn the truth about the disappearance of his wife and the death of his daughter.
COPPER stars Tom Weston-Jones (MI-5) and Franka Potente (The Bourne Supremacy, Run Lola Run). The series is created by Fontana and Academy Award®-nominee Will Rokos (Monster’s Ball, Southland)
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