Copper - Premieres Sunday, August 19 at 9/8C
From Barry Levinson & Tom Fontana
With Tom Weston-Jones & Franka Potente
Press
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Copper is an impressive piece of work.
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Set your DVRs for 10pm. Do it now. There are ten episodes and you won’t want to miss any one of them…there is nothing else like it on television today.
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I’m in for the season of ‘Copper’… if the other nine episodes are as compelling, we are in for a great ride.
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Life is tough for almost everyone here, and justice is often a roll of the dice. But this 10-episode season, which with any luck will be only the first, turns ‘Copper’ into gold.
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‘Copper’ has much to recommend it: action, passion and great performances arising from an exploration of classic American themes. It could turn out to be TV gold for BBC America.
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Unapologetically authentic and fearlessly adult ‘Copper’ is so meticulously detailed that it often feels as though it’s set in some kind of ancient era…But ‘Copper’ can’t really be compared to anything else. With Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana among its executive producers I would expect no less.
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…One of the unusual projects airing this summer.
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The show’s best inspiration…is the mysterious battlefield bond among Corcoran and two unlikely war buddies: Robert Morehouse (Kyle Schmid), the dissolute scion of an aristocratic family, and Matthew Freeman (Ato Essandoh), a black doctor who is the unheralded forensics genius behind Corcoran’s crime-solving success.
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For its first original drama, BBC America chose a setting little seen on television: Civil War-era New York.
Its unyielding moral passion, exemplified in the character and pursuits of its hero, Detective Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones), is the life force that propels this powerful—and powerfully violent—tale of New York City, 1864.
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The talent behind this drama is impressive…
Gangs? Hookers? 1864? We’re in…
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Tom Weston-Jones stars as a tough Irish ‘copper’ who is part Sherlock Holmes (a sleuth with a physician sidekick), part Philip Marlowe (a tarnished knight in a corrupt universe) and part Batman (an urban vigilante).
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BBC America would have a hard time picking a more intriguing project for its first non-import series: an 1860s New York cop drama by Tom Fontana, the mind behind some of the most powerful, ground-breaking dramas of all time…
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If you’re going to jump into the original series waters, that’s at least an interesting, unusual place to leap.
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BBC America couldn’t have asked for a better team behind-the-scenes for its first non-import original series.
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‘Copper’ is gold for BBC America.
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[Levinson and Fontana] do a terrific job in the pilot of constructing 19th-century New York City so that we see the sharp social class divisions – a world of one very rich upper class and almost everyone else fighting for their scraps.
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…dark, raw, and quickly intriguing…
