COPPER New BBC America Original Series Tease

BBC America’s first original drama COPPER premieres *** Sunday, August 19 *** only on BBC America.

From Emmy®-winner Tom Fontana, Academy Award®-nominee Will Rokos, Academy Award®-winner Barry Levinson and Christina Wayne.

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.

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