Just have a look at the two DVD covers up here and you'll immediately notice the similarities. They stroke me while recently watching Ripper Street, the successful BBC1 series starring Matthew Mac Fadyen. I had finished watching BBC America Copper on Fox Crime (one of our pay tv satellite channels) not long before.
Tough, fascinating, torn between their duties and tragic, painful personal experiences, the two protagonists are police detectives fighting crime, respectively in New York and in London, in the 19th century. Their love for justice, their frailty hidden under a tough surface, as well as their charming looks can get under your skin.