Burnished

The new drama from BBC America, entitled Copper, has launched to reasonable critical response in the States, and its biggest audience for a drama series kick-off so far - 1.1million viewers on Sunday night, rising to 1.8m in total if you add in the most immediate repeats. (BBC America is "available in 80 million homes" across the States.) It's a period cop piece, set in a slum area of New York in 1864, and is a co-production with Cineflix. It is also the first time BBC America has created original drama.

I suppose an interesting question for George Entwistle is: would this sort of thing get made under the re-trenched vision for BBC Worldwide sought by the Chairman Lord Patten ?  If anyone sees him in Edinburgh, let me know the answer...