Copper

67
Metascore
2012-2013
2 seasons
BBC America
Action & Adventure, Drama
TV-MA

Set in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City in the 1860s, focusing on a rugged young Irish cop who is forced to navigate his unruly and dangerous immigrant neighborhood while interacting with the uptown Manhattan crowd and the black community.

67
Metascore
2012-2013
2 seasons
BBC America
Action & Adventure, Drama
TV-MA

Alfre Woodard to Play President in NBC Pilot State of Affairs

Move over Barack Obama, there's a new president in town. Alfre Woodard will play the Commander in Chief in NBC's pilot State of Affairs,TVGuide.com has confirmed. Deadline first reported the news. 

Sat, Mar 22, 2014

Alfre Woodard to Play President in NBC Pilot State of Affairs

Copper Canceled After Two Seasons

BBC America has canceled Copper after two seasons, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series...

Thu, Sep 19, 2013

Copper Exclusive: Can a Counterfeiter Take Down the Sixth Precinct?

The copppers of Five Points may have met their match. On Sunday's all-new Copper (10/9c, BBC America), Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones) and his men are faced with a new kind of criminal, a professional counterfeiter by the name of Philomen Keating (guest star Lee Tergesen).

Wed, Jul 17, 2013

Copper Exclusive: Can a Counterfeiter Take Down the Sixth Precinct?

Watch My Show: Copper's Tom Kelly Answers Our Showrunner Survey

The second season of BBC America's Copper (Sundays, 10/9c) is set in 1865 New York. With the Civil War drawing to a close, Irish immigrant police detective Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones) must deal with upheaval in the gritty Five Points slum as well as overall changes in the city. Copper executive producer and showrunner Thomas Kelly has chronicled New York history for years — his 2005 novel, Empire Rising, centered on the construction of the Empire State Building, and his TV credits include the New York-set Blue Bloods and The Black Donnellys. Kelly explains why Copper shines.

Fri, Jul 12, 2013

Watch My Show: Copper's Tom Kelly Answers Our Showrunner Survey

Copper Exclusive: How to Catch a Cop Killer!

Gen. Donovan just wants the Sixth Precinct to do its job -- is that so wrong? On Sunday's all-new episode of Copper (10/9c, BBC America), a cop killer is on the loose, and Donovan (Donal Logue) is taking the matter to heart. "

Thu, Jul 11, 2013

Copper Exclusive: How to Catch a Cop Killer!

Copper Exclusive: Will Corky Make It to the Wedding on Time?

Watch your back, Corky! On Sunday's all-new Copper (10/9c, BBC America), we see Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones) seemingly late to the wedding of Elizabeth Haverford and Robert Morehouse (Anastasia Griffith, Kyle Schmid).

Wed, Jul 3, 2013

Copper Exclusive: Will Corky Make It to the Wedding on Time?

Why Foreign Actors Are Taking Over American TV

Talk about outsourcing! An increasing number of TV's all-American cops, firefighters and doctors are being played by actors not from the U.S. of A. Of course, foreign actors have been hiding their accents to play Americans for years. House's Hugh Laurie was so skilled at trading in his upper-crust Cambridge lilt to play the titular grumpy doctor that many viewers were shocked to find out he was British when he spoke with his real voice on an awards show or during interviews...

Thu, Jan 31, 2013

Why Foreign Actors Are Taking Over American TV

Ask Matt: Fringe Finale, Nashville, the Downton Abbey Effect, and More

Question: What can I say except: "Awesome!" Fringe could not have ended any other way. I was fully prepared to be sad and upset, but the ending left me feeling fulfilled and satisfied. I applaud anyone who had anything to do with this amazing show. Walter, Olivia, Peter and the gang have become family to me and I am happy knowing that they have a future. So thank you universe, whichever one you choose, for this wonderful show. And thank you, Matt, for always championing Fringe and giving it space and time in your column. — Rachel

Mon, Jan 21, 2013

Ask Matt: Fringe Finale, Nashville, the Downton Abbey Effect, and More

The Weekend Playlist: Ripper Street, Fringe Finale, SNL's Silver Lining

Evil casts a long shadow over BBC America's promising new thriller Ripper Street (Saturday, 9/8c). Set amid the grimy slums of London's Whitechapel district in the immediate wake of Jack the Ripper's reign of slaughter, this absorbing 19th-century procedural depicts police work complicated by widespread public panic that each new murder might herald the return of the phantom fiend.

Fri, Jan 18, 2013

The Weekend Playlist: Ripper Street, Fringe Finale, SNL's Silver Lining

BBC America Renews Period Drama Copper for Second Season

BBC America has given the green light to a second season of its first original drama, Copper, the network announced Thursday. There is no airdate yet for the 13-episode second season. The period drama, set in 1864, wraps its first 10-episode season on Sunday. Check out photos from Copper Copper, from...

Fri, Oct 19, 2012

BBC America Renews Period Drama Copper for Second Season

Arrow Scoop: Currie Graham Leads Royal Flush Gang

Currie Graham has been tapped to lead Royal Flush Gang on Arrow, TVGuide.com has learned. The NYPD Blue alum has been cast as...

Mon, Oct 8, 2012

Arrow Scoop: Currie Graham Leads Royal Flush Gang

Weekend TV in Review: Comings (Boss, Strike Back) and Goings (Political Animals)

Following, some thoughts on another very busy weekend of summer TV. (At this point, I'm almost looking forward to the fall season starting, so I can catch my breath.) CHI-TOWN CHICANERY: Corruption, mendacity, a thick smog of cynicism. Ain't we got fun? And so the audaciously downbeat political drama Boss returns to Starz (Friday, 9/8c), anchored and dominated yet again by Kelsey Grammer's tremendous performance as Chicago mayor (aka "boss" man) Tom Kane. A self-righteous bastard and unrepentant bully, this Machiavellian manipulator is notorious for "sacrificing that which is most precious for his political survival" (including sending his own daughter to prison and having his once-trusted turncoat adviser killed). Juggling more baggage than O'Hare during a blizzard, Kane is also beset by demons, manifesting as visions and hallucinations and ghosts, all symptoms of a debilitating brain disease — or maybe it's just good old guilt.

Fri, Aug 17, 2012

Weekend TV in Review: Comings (Boss, Strike Back) and Goings (Political Animals)