Keen Eddie
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Keen Eddie is an American action, comedy-drama
Comedy-drama
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 television series that aired in 2003 on the Fox Network
Fox Broadcasting Company
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. The series follows a brash NYPD
New York City Police Department
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 detective
Detective
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 who goes to London
London
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 when one of his cases goes sour and remains to work with New Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard
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. The basic premise of the show bears a close resemblance to the popular 1980s British series Dempsey & Makepeace
Dempsey & Makepeace
Dempsey & Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham...

, the only notable difference being that the female partner has been replaced by a female housemate. Stylistically, the series derived inspiration from British feature films by Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie
Guy Stuart Ritchie is an English screenwriter and film maker who directed Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Revolver, RocknRolla and Sherlock Holmes.-Early life:...

, such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British crime film directed and written by Guy Ritchie. The story is a heist film involving a self-confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three card brag...

and Snatch
Snatch (film)
Snatch is a 2000 crime film written and directed by British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, featuring an ensemble cast. Set in the London criminal underworld, the film contains two intertwined plots: one dealing with the search for a stolen diamond, the other with a small-time boxing promoter named Turkish ...

. The soundtrack and incidental music for at least the first episode was provided by British techno duo Orbital
Orbital (band)
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.

The series was scheduled to premiere during the 2002–2003 television season, but was postponed and premiered in summer 2003. The series was then moved to Thursdays with its seventh episode to help improve its ratings, but Fox canceled the series due to its low ratings of 5.1 million viewers.

The American cable network Bravo picked up the series to begin airing in January 2004, including the six episodes never aired on Fox. All thirteen episodes of the series were released on DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment on September 7, 2004.

Plot

After his investigation into an oxycodone
Oxycodone
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 ring results in a botched drug bust, New York police
New York City Police Department
The New York City Police Department , established in 1845, is currently the largest municipal police force in the United States, with primary responsibilities in law enforcement and investigation within the five boroughs of New York City...

 Detective Eddie Arlette is sent to London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

 to assist Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of London, UK. It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard. The Scotland Yard entrance became...

 with its work on the same case. Eddie and his British police partner, Inspector Monty Pippin, help crack the case, and Eddie is asked to stay on at Scotland Yard. He initially declines but suddenly changes his mind to the surprise of those around him.

In addition to his work, Eddie has an adversarial relationship with Fiona, who occupies the flat
Apartment
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 he is renting from her parents; she begrudgingly puts up with him (and his Bull Terrier
Bull Terrier
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, Pete), because he has threatened to reveal to her parents that she is not actually enrolled at university
University
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. Eddie frequently tries to make Fiona question her relationship with her boyfriend, Nigel. It is possible that he would like them to break up so he might be able to date Fiona. In the final episodes of the series, Eddie and Fiona seem to be forming a deeper connection with each other, while still maintaining their teasing relationship. In the final episode, it is predicted that Eddie will fall in love with a woman on a red bus. In the last moments of the episode, Eddie sees Fiona get off a red bus. He clearly notices this fact but chooses not to tell Fiona.

Eddie's other influential relationship, while in England, is with his friend and co-worker Monty Pippin. On his first day in London, Pippin takes Eddie to a swingers club. Pippin explains that he is not actually married but he and a friend pretend to be, so they can take part in the club. Pippin has many other strange sexual habits. In one episode, Pippin joins a support group for "sexaholics" (nymphomaniacs) but tells the group his name is Eddie Arlett. He also drops his English accent and takes on an American one. He never takes the support group seriously and promptly attempts to seduce one of his group members. While Eddie puts up with Pippin's antics, he frequently tries to encourage Pippin to change. Eddie also states that Pippin's personality is not natural as everything Pippin does contradicts something he did previously.

Eddie also has a flirtatious, albeit a seemingly imaginary, relationship with Carol Ross (Superintendent Nathanial Johnson's assistant), whom he calls "Ms. Moneypenny" and with whom he banters using double entendres of a sexual nature. When he asks her seemingly innocent questions, she gives a sexual reply ("How are you, Miss Moneypenny?" "Completely...shaved." or "What's new, Miss Moneypenny?" "Crotchless panties." or "What's your position, Miss Moneypenny?" "On...all...fours."). Eddie frequently asks those around him if they heard her response. Excepting a single incident in the episode Keeping Up Appearances, no one ever appears to have heard her sexual response but simply hear a neutral comment (when he asks her how she's doing, he hears her say "Terribly horny", but anyone he asks heard "Terribly well").

Eddie owns a bull terrier named Pete, who is extremely ill-tempered. Eddie attempts to leave him in quarantine at the airport when he arrives in England but Pippin rescues Pete, by claiming Pete is a police dog. Pete chews on everything and frequently destroys TV remote controls and cellphones. He also has strange sexual appetites, from Fiona's cat Princess to a fur coat to sleeping humans. More than once, he has aggressively cornered visitors at the apartment and forced them to stand motionless for hours until Fiona or Eddie come home.

Eddie also has a catchphrase when introduced to a villain or upon making an arrest: "Hi, I'm Eddie...how do you like me so far?"

Main cast

  • Mark Valley
    Mark Valley
    Mark Thomas Valley is an American film and television actor, known for his role as Brad Chase on the TV drama Boston Legal and Christopher Chance in Fox's action/drama Human Target.-Personal life:...

     as Detective Eddie Arlette, NYPD
  • Sienna Miller
    Sienna Miller
    Sienna Rose Diana Miller is a British-American actress, model, and fashion designer, best known for her roles in Layer Cake, Alfie, Factory Girl, The Edge of Love and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. In 2007, the London Film Criticsnamed her British Actress of the Year for Interview...

     as Fiona Bickerton
  • Julian Rhind-Tutt
    Julian Rhind-Tutt
    Julian Alistair Rhind-Tutt is an English actor. He is best known for his starring role as "Mac" McCartney in the comedy television series Green Wing, the second series of which finished on Channel 4 in May 2006...

     as Inspector Monty Pippin, New Scotland Yard
  • Colin Salmon
    Colin Salmon
    Colin Salmon is a British actor best known for playing the character Charles Robinson in three James Bond films.-Personal life:...

     as Superintendent Nathanial Johnson, New Scotland Yard
  • Alexei Sayle
    Alexei Sayle
    Alexei David Sayle is a British stand-up comedian, actor and author. He was a central part of the alternative comedy circuit in the early 1980s. He was voted the 18th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-ups in 2007...

     as Rudy Alexander (episodes 1-2; guest star afterward)

Recurring cast

  • Rachael Buckley as Carol Ross
  • Theo Fraser Steele as Nigel
  • Daniel Goldenberg as Johnny Red
  • Alex McSweeney
    Alex McSweeney
    Alex McSweeney is a British actor, best known for playing Graham Foster in EastEnders from 2003 to 2004.He also played David Radford in The Bill in 2004. Amongst others, programmes he has appeared in include Silent Witness and Holby City. He also appeared in Lewis in 2007...

     as One Ball Bill
  • Sarah-Jane Potts
    Sarah-Jane Potts
    Sarah-Jane Potts , is an English actress, best known for her roles as Saint in Sugar Rush, as Ellie, Abs' on/off girlfriend on Casualty and as Jo Lipsett in Waterloo Road. Potts is also the sister of actor Andrew-Lee Potts, best known for his part as Connor Temple in Primeval...

     as Audry
  • Ivana Horvat
    Ivana Horvat
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     as Milli
  • Anya Lahiri
    Anya Lahiri
    Anya Lahiri is a British actress, model and singer of Indian and Finnish origin.-Biography:...

     as Zoe
  • Meredith Ostrom
    Meredith Ostrom
    Meredith Joy Ostrom is an actress/model/Painter.From Swedish, German, English and Lithuanian descent. A graduate of New York University, Tisch school of the arts. She has emerged as an artist since 2007...

     as Dominique
  • Sarah Vandenberg as Valentine Hughes
  • Martin Hancock
    Martin Hancock
    Martin Hancock is an English actor well known for his role as Emily Bishop's nephew Geoffrey "Spider" Nugent in the British soap Coronation Street and Reg Lund in Holby City....

     as Fishy
  • Nick Malinowski as Cheap Trick

Episodes

Paramount opted to put the episodes in the order they were aired, not produced, for the DVD release. The most notable evidence of this is Eddie’s map of London, where he tacks a matchbook relating to his adventure. The number of matchbooks noticeably fluctuates when watched in broadcast order. The episode list below is ordered by their production numbers (correct order) and not their air dates. The DVD release also replaces the music that was originally used when the show was originally broadcast.
# Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production
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