The plot, of course, was thwarted — an outcome that has been credited to smart detective work.
In the cop comedy about a diverse group of police officers, Fumero will play Amy, a smart detective who used to be a middle school teacher.
In conjunction with the DVD release of the sixth four-episode "Vera" cycle, Acorn has assembled a bargain-priced box set of the first five series, enabling fans of British TV and smart detective shows to watch the complete run to date of a procedural that compares well to the likes of "Columbo" and "Cracker".
At first, the Robin Hood aspect of his uncles excites him -- fun-loving criminals on the run from the mean old cops - until he winds up being interrogated by a smart detective (Guy Pierce), who uses J to drive a true wedge into the family.
AOL TV named him one of TV's Smartest Detectives.
He was named one of TV's Smartest Detectives by AOL.
Not as one of the stars of "N.Y.P.D. Blue," ABC's long-running police drama in which she played Diane Russell, the street-smart detective with enough personal baggage - including incest, alcoholism and the death of her husband, Detective Bobby Simone (played by Jimmy Smits) - to fill a precinct evidence room.
Murphy, who also suffered one of the most infamous box office turkeys of all time in the shape of 2002 science fiction comedy The Adventures of Pluto Nash, is due to appear as Pryor's father in an upcoming biopic and will reprise his role as street-smart detective Axel Foley in a long-gestating fourth Beverly Hills Cop film.
The show follows Messing, a whip-smart detective who has her hands full on the job and at home with her soon to be ex-husband and two kids.
But they're really smart, English detectives, really smart.
