Fastlane (TV series)

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Fastlane
Image:FLImg.jpg The cast of Fastlane (from left to right), Van, Billie and Deaq.
Genre	Crime drama
Creator(s)	McG
Starring	Peter Facinelli Bill Bellamy Tiffani Thiessen
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	22
Production
Running time	60 minutes (with commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	Fox Broadcasting Company
Original run	September 18 2002 – April 25 2003
Links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Fastlane is an action TV series that was broadcast on Fox from 2002 to 2003. On August 14, 2005 G4, began rebroadcasting the complete series as part of its "The Whip Set programming block" (now known as G4 Sunday Nights). [1]. The show airs on Sunday nights at 7pm Eastern. It had previously been airing weekdays at 3pm Eastern, but was discontinued in July 2006.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Series run 3 Cast 3.1 Main Cast 3.2 Recurring cast 4 Episode listing 5 Guest appearances 6 Trivia 7 External links

Plot summary

Van Ray and Deaqon Hayes are two mismatched cops teamed together by shady vixen police lieutenant, Wilhelmina "Billie" Chambers, in a secretive undercover division of the LAPD. Operating with the motto "Everything we seize, we keep. Everything we keep, we use," their base of operations is the "Candy Store" - a warehouse containing a fortune in confiscated cars, clothes, weapons and everything else needed to blend into the seedy criminal underworld of Los Angeles. Given criminal covers, the officers use all of the resources at their disposal to apprehend dangerous miscreants while walking the line between cop and criminal.

Series run

The series consisted of twenty-two episodes, forty-five minute each, plus an unaired pilot. Episodes 14 and 15 ("Defense" and "Offense") form a two-part story, while episodes 21 and 22 ("Dosed" and "Iced") form a two-part story ending on a cliffhanger which sees Billie Chambers kidnapped and forced to do drugs. As the series was cancelled at that point, fans were left clamoring for a resolution. It is unknown how many episodes the remaining plot would have covered. During an interview on the September 28, 2005 episode of Last Call with Carson Daly series star Bill Bellamy stated the show had concluded its run.

Cast

Main Cast

• Bill Bellamy — Deaqon "Deaq" Hayes
• Peter Facinelli — Donovan "Van" Ray
• Tiffani Thiessen — Wilhemina "Billie" Chambers

Recurring cast

• Jay Mohr — Roland Hill
• Mark Famiglietti — Jarod
• Big Boy — Aquarius
• Vondie Curtis-Hall — Andre Hayes
• Jennifer Sky — Cassidy Shaw
• Robert Forster — Raymond Ray
• Jamie Brown — Sophia Jones
• Bill Duke — Capt. Parish

Episode listing

Episode Number	Production Number	Episode Name	Original Air Date
-----	100	Unaired Pilot	-----
1	101	Pilot	Sept 18, 2002
2	102	Girls Own Juice	Sept 25, 2002
3	103	Gone Native	Oct 30, 2002
4	104	Things Done Changed	Nov 6, 2002
5	105	Ryde or Die	Nov 13, 2002
6	106	Ray Ray	Nov 20, 2002
7	107	Wet	Nov 27, 2002
8	108	Mighty Blue	Dec 4, 2002
9	109	Get Your Mack On	Dec 11, 2002
10	110	Dogtown	Jan 10, 2003
11	111	Strap On	Jan 17, 2003
12	112	101	Jan 24, 2003
13	113	Defense (1)	Jan 31, 2003
14	114	Offense (2)	Feb 7, 2003
15	115	Popdukes	Feb 14, 2003
16	116	Slippery Slope	Mar 7, 2003
17	117	Simone Says	Mar 14, 2003
18	118	Monster	Mar 21, 2003
19	119	Overkill	Mar 28, 2003
20	120	Asslane	Apr 4, 2003
21	121	Dosed (1)	Apr 18, 2003
22	122	Iced (2)	Apr 25, 2003

Guest appearances

Over the course of its run, Fastlane featured cameos and guest appearances from a good number of known figures, including Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, Dale Earnhardt Jr, The O.C.'s Mischa Barton, MTV's Jenny McCarthy, Krista Allen, Jake Busey, Jaime Pressly, George Hamilton, Eric Mabius, Michelle Forbes, Navi Rawat, Iggy Pop, Naomi Campbell, Tommy Lee, Terrence Howard, Isaac Hayes, Tatyana Ali, Paul Gleason, Antonio Fargas, and Ali Landry.

Trivia

• Each episode cost the two studios making it (Warner Bros. and Fox) $2.6 million. The show's hallmarks — uncoventional cinematography, explosions, guest appearances, licensed soundtracks, supercars and other exotic vehicles — were the root cause of the exorbitant production costs. As a result, the show was cancelled because of these high production costs and the ratings drop it suffered from being moved from Wednesday nights to Friday nights.
• Peter Facinelli is married to Jennie Garth of Beverly Hills 90210 fame, on which Tiffani Thiessen was also a cast member.
• Mischa Barton's role as Simone in "Simone Says" led to producer McG casting her in his next project – The O.C..
• According to a commentary on the Firefly DVD set, both Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk were big fans of the show.
• The role of Billie Chambers was initially offered to Heather Locklear.
• The series paid numerous homages to the original Miami Vice, of which it was a spiritual successor. Watching the first aired episode of each series reveals numerous similarities in plot and music, in addition to the obvious similarities in premise and ambience.

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