COPPER - BBC AMERICA: NEW SERIES PROMO - PREMIERES SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2012 AT 9/8C
Set in 1860s New York City, the 10-part drama centers on Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones, MI-5), an intense, rugged Irish immigrant cop working the city's notorious Five Points and up to the contrasting worlds of elegant Fifth Avenue and an emerging African-American community in rural northern Manhattan.
Cast includes 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”).
The series is created by Tom Fontana (“Oz,” “Homicide: Life on the Streets,” “St. Elsewhere”) and Will Rokos (“Monster’s Ball,” “Southland”) and 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.
