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When this show ended and nothing was concluded the world wept...

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I just bought the DVD. LOVE IT!

This show fell to FOX syndrome.

It never jumped; the FOX executives pushed it.

Typical TV executive move --- pull a great show off the air. "Keen Eddie" could have been one of the great ones if only somebody would've let it be.

I watched and loved Keen Eddie and I think it would have been successful if FOX had given it a chance. Someone wrote, "The vast majority of the US viewing public is much too vacuous to have made this one popular." Nonsense! We watch whatever they give us and unfortunately it's all reality shows now. Why? Because they're MUCH cheaper to produce. There's no actors demanding $1 million an episode. When a network doesn't make enough money on a show they kill it off by constantly switching time slots so no one can find it, pre-empting it for something and when it loses all the viewers they cancel it for low ratings. Keen Eddie should have been broadcast on the FX cable network.

Tries to be a little too hip for its own good. That, and the premise is ridiculous. We've seen this fish-out-of-water story a thousand times before. And of course he's going to end up sleeping with that hot roommate of his, thus killing all the sexual tension and falling into the same trap that hundreds of shows, from "Moonlighting", to "Frasier" have fallen into before. On the plus side, though, Siena Miller is one of the hottest women I have ever seen.

Stupid Fox never gave this show a chance. Keen Eddie was smart, different, and funny. Mark Valley was incredible as Eddie and he was great to look at to boot. Plus, he had such great chemistry with his costars especially with Sienna Miller. It sucks that we will never be able to watch the relationship evolve between Eddie and Fiona. Sigh, this could've been a classic. The DVD release only makes me sad for what could have been.

Since most if not all media in Italy is owned by someone very closely aligned with King Murdoch, our satellite service gets blessed with many Fox shows, albeit about 6 months later than in the US. I came across Keen Eddie purely by accident, and was hooked after the 1st minute. All the shows have been witty and well acted. The one where some Brits steal a racehorse to obtain "his seed" had me rolling on the fine marble. Imagine hiring a hooker in order to get the specimen from the horse! Characters are all funny or endearing: Brit criminals, Eddie, Fiona, the Captain's secretary. Very smart, sharp and witty...and a cop show where never a shot was fired...and it actually works! Figures that Fox cancelled it. The vast majority of the US viewing public is much too vacuous to have made this one popular. Nope, too much into Temptation Island type crap to show instead. Too bad

I love Keen Eddie. I only stumbled on this show while watching Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on Bravo network. I really think they should reconsider doing this show and bring it back in its entirety. Mark Valley is awesome and I love the hate/love relationship between him and his roommate-Fiona. I can't believe that they take off the good programs to run crap like the Simple life and all those damned reality shows. I don't need shows on reality thank you, I live it. I prefer to escape in fantasy on TV to relax and relieve stresses of everyday. Keen Eddie was just the show to provide both fantasy and comedy---great cure for the blues after watching him for an hour.

I cannot place in words how much I loved this show. When those dumb-asses at FOX cut it I was pissed. Especially when I didn't get to watch the entire season. Also my hopes to see the episodes I missed out on, on the BRAVO network were crushed because my cheap-ass cable service didn't provide the network. So please help me out and place Keen Eddie out on DVD.

I discovered this show on Bravo a couple months ago and, up until I read the other posts on this site, I had no idea it had once aired on a regular American network. (Good job promoting your show, FOX!!!) I assumed it was a British program that had been "imported" to American basic cable. I thought it was too smart, too off-beat and too witty to have passed with American TV execs. Well, I've learned a valuable lesson. It's not that good shows never come to the American public. They're just, IGNORED, SMOTHERED and then KILLED at the first opportunity to make room for "illuminating television" like 'The Swan.' DAMMIT!!!! Not that 'Keen Eddie' was perfect. The female roommate annoyed me (though the foxy Brit partner, Nigel, more than made up for her). It shared a few too many premise themes with 'Due South' (ANOTHER great show that got the less-than-royal network treatment) but this time with a rude American cop fish-out-of-water instead of a polite Canadian Mountie. Still, it had great potential. Great cast, great writing, WONDERFUL tone and use of the London setting. Damn you, FOX. Damn you.

Oh my God....I forgot all about this show and realized I had to send in my input. It was awful. Eddie was an okay character, but the others? The bar owners were terrible, his roomate was bad, and the dog was unfunny. Bottom line-wretched. And the action was unfunny, too. The fight scene commentated as a soccer game? Jesus....

This show never jumped! Fox pulled it and as we all know and Fox has already jumped the shark. I think it happened during the 1996-1997 season when they killed 'Ned and Stacey'. Speaking of 'Ned and Stacey', Julian Rhind-Tutt looks alot like Thomas Haden Church, no? He even dresses like Thomas as Ned Dorsey! I think that if Julian and Thomas made a Fox show together, that the network would no longer exist.

This show coming off Fox proves without a doubt broadcast TV caters to morons. It was a great show in that it was stylish, well-acted, and interesting (as far as TV shows go -- this one would have jumped the shark in a few seasons when "They did it"). But my point is that Fox killed it because it wasn't pulling its numbers, and it wasn't pulling its numbers because broadcast TV is for idiots. If "Keen Eddie" is inaccessible to your average viewer, then we've got some big troubles on our hands. It was mindless entertainment to me. Do I have to give myself a lobotomy and get drunk so I can connect with the likes of reality TV?

There is a huge misconception in this world, both in and out of the US, that Americans are too low brow and stupid to "get" intelligent programming. Plenty of us dumb Americans are not really so dumb, and we appreciate the rare show that comes along and stands out from the other cop shows and mindless "comedy" that we are force fed on a daily basis. However, once we fall in love with such a rare jewel, it gets yanked away from us, and we are again stuck with the stupidity that dominates American programming. Such was the case with Keen Eddie. No, it wasn't the pinnacle of intelligent, and it wasn't life changing in any sense of the word, but it was a good show. Smart, funny, and entertaining. Shame on FOX for canceling it. Shame on them and damn them all to hell.