''Taxi Brooklyn'' is a French-American

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television series, produced by EuropaCorp Television. The series stars

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and

Jacky Ido Jacky Ido (born 14 May 1977) is a Burkinabé-born French actor. His first role was as Lemalian in the 2005 German film, ''The White Masai''. He is best known to English-language audiences for his role as Marcel, the film projectionist in Quentin ...

, and is based upon the film ''

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'' written by

Luc Besson Luc Paul Maurice Besson (; born 18 March 1959) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed or produced the films ''Subway'' (1985), '' The Big Blue'' (1988), and '' La Femme Nikita'' (1990). Besson is associated with the ' ...

. On March 6, 2015, NBC canceled the series in the United States.

Synopsis

Caitlin "Cat" Sullivan is an

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detective working in Brooklyn. After her driving privileges are suspended, she relies on Leo Romba, a Brooklyn cab driver from France. Leo becomes Cat's driver and a de facto consultant on her cases. While solving crimes with Leo, Cat is also running her own unauthorized investigation into the death of her father, an NYPD detective thought to have been killed by the Capella crime family. In doing so, she clashes with her boss, Captain Baker, and her ex-husband Gregg, who has picked up the case for the FBI.

Cast

Main

as Detective Caitlin Mary Darcy "Cat" Sullivan, a second-generation, Irish-American detective with the fictional 125th Precinct (in reality, the precinct that serves the Prospect Park area is the 78th Precinct). She achieved some level of notoriety after capturing the "Prospect Park Stalker". After her driving privileges are suspended, she commandeers Leo Romba, a French taxi driver, to become her personal valet. She is recently divorced from FBI Special Agent Gregg James. She attended Catholic school, where she was starting point guard during her senior year on both her school's All-City and All-State teams, but is now a

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. Growing up, she was best friends with Annabella Capella (

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), the granddaughter of the head of the Capella crime family who has since taken over the family business. She is highly uncomfortable with her mother's affair with the police captain. Her late father was a

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on the Capella family's payroll, who murdered Annabella's grandfather to escape an Internal Affairs investigation, and was killed in revenge. *

as Leo Romba, a Brooklyn cab driver from

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, France, who becomes Cat's driver and a consultant for the 125th Precinct. He spent four years in a French prison for serving as a getaway driver; he testified against the robbers and spent two years in

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. As a result, Leo has developed

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. He has a son, Nico, that he loves very much, and an ex-wife, Aimee, who has since remarried. He considers Frankie (Cat's mother) a close friend. In "Revenge", it is revealed that Aimee is separated from her new husband; she and Nico are kidnapped immediately after their arrival in New York by Leo's former partner-in-crime, Henry. * James Colby as Captain John Baker, the commander of the 125th Precinct. He is Cat's godfather, and recently he has begun an affair with her mother. * José Zúñiga as Detective Eddie Esposito, Cat's co-worker and rival at the 125th Precinct. *

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as Dr. Monica Pena, a medical examiner with the Brooklyn Borough Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and a friend of Cat's. * Bill Heck as Special Agent Gregg James, an FBI agent and Cat's ex-husband. In "Revenge", he is shot by a Capella family shooter. *

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as Frankie Sullivan, Cat's widowed mother. She and Leo are good friends. * Raul Casso as Ronnie, a fellow cab driver and a close friend of Leo's; notable for a mock-flamboyant personality.

Recurring

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as Rhys *

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as Giada

Episodes

Broadcast

''Taxi Brooklyn'' premiered in

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on March 21, 2014, on

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, and in

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on April 14, 2014, on TF1. In the

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, the series premiered on June 25, 2014, on

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, and in both

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and the

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on May 25, 2015 on

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Reception

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season 1 has an approval rating of 35% based on reviews from 6 positive and 11 negative critic reviews. The website consensus reads: "It's decent summer escapism, but ''Taxi Brooklyn'''s storylines detour too much to ring true."

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