Tom Fontana: New York City

Will Rokos Dept: When: Premieres Sunday, 9 p.m, according to Vancouver Sun. For Tom Fontana and Will Rokos, the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Monster's Ball, it was the sense of place that came first: New York City, 1864, and the immigrant community of Five Points, with its wealthy but corruptible movers and shakers centred on and around Fifth Avenue, surrounded by a teeming mass of humanity, poverty and desperation, from recent migr s from the docks of Ireland to refugees and freed slaves from the Civil War, hard-working labourers' families living side by side with hardened criminals watching from within and striking whenever they sensed vulnerability. At night, the city was like a daytime bordello closing down and then secretly reopening. Lanterns were lit, but there was never true light. Things happened in the flickering shadows, murky things. There were murders and robberies: Some solved, many not and cOPPER Where: Showcase (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.