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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 13
Runtime: 44 min.
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Premiered: 2003

Format:

Series

Genres:

Action, Comedy, Drama

Created By:

Shaun Cassidy

Actors:

Alexei Sayle, Colin Salmon, Daniel Goldenberg, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Mark Valley, Rachael Buckley, Sarah-Jane Potts, Sienna Miller

Made In:

USA

Premiered at:

FOX

Amaz­ing show, can­celed by the FOX before it even got a chance. But, things like that hap­pen each year and they hap­pen on all US net­works, and they will never learn, because they care about ONE thing only: MONEY. And that’s why Keen Eddie, Life, Moon­light, New Ams­ter­dam and other great series were can­celed with­out get­ting real chance. Keen Eddie is excel­lent series that proved to smart for aver­age audience.

“Hi, I’m Eddie. How do you like me so far?” This is how detec­tive Eddie Arlette intro­duces him­self. He arrives in Lon­don from NY to work on a fol­low up case. But after the case is done (pilot episode), he stays in Lon­don work­ing for Scot­land Yard.

Story

Eddie arrives in Lon­don and moves into the house he rented, only to find out that Fiona, daugh­ter of the woman that rented the house is liv­ing there incog­nito while her par­ents think that she is in col­lege. All sto­ries, and each episode is one story, one case, are very well writ­ten, clever and funny. With many unex­pected twists, series quickly grows on you, because episodes are not dull as the most cop shows turn out in the end. Humor is great revolv­ing around cul­tural clash of Amer­i­can and Eng­lish sides. Also, there are many great ref­er­ences to James Bond and Eddies flirt­ing with Carol Ross, superintendent’s assistant.

Cast and characters

Sienna, Mark, Julian

Eddie is played by Mark Val­ley (Fringe, Human Tar­get) and he is only Amer­i­can actor on the series. Mark is really great in the role, charm­ing and smart. It’s real pity he didn’t get a chance of sev­eral sea­sons to explore the char­ac­ter fur­ther. Gor­geous Sienna Miller is play­ing Fiona, and she is spoiled and always bick­er­ing with Eddie. They have great chem­istry together and it’s real fun to watch them. The rest of the cast, detec­tives in Scot­land Yard are great Eng­lish actors, and Colin Salmon and Julian Rhind-​Tutt are both really great.

Pro­duc­tion

Visu­ally, series looks at times like Lock, Stock and Two Smok­ing Bar­rels, and that works very well, mak­ing the series look dynamic and fresh. But, FOX man­aged to turn the series into dis­as­ter rat­ings with con­stant changes of the air time, mov­ing it around and using it to fill the time. In the end they can­cel it early, and the rest of the 13 episodes airen on BravoTV.

Con­clu­sion

Get the DVD and watch the series, it’s fun and really great. And if you like the Mark Val­ley in the role, check out the early Fringe episodes and also a new series Human Tar­get that is cur­rently on the air.