Eve (UK TV series)

Eve
Genre Children's drama Sci-fi
Directed by
  • Adrian McDonwall
  • Jonathan Fox Bassett
  • Adrian Mead
Starring
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Eve

Eve[1] is a science fiction series starring Poppy Lee Friar[2] that follows the adventures of a gynoid named Eve (also known as Project Eternity) living with a family in suburbia, trying to make sense of human life as a teenage girl.

Eve launched on CBBC on 5 January 2015 with its 13-part first series occupying a Monday afternoon slot in the channel’s schedule.This was later followed by a Christmas special later in the year. The second series also occupied a Monday afternoon slot and began on 4 January 2016. It ended on 21 March 2016. Series 2 had 12 episodes.

Written by children’s writer Emma Reeves, Eve was co-created with David Chikwe, creative director of Blacklisted Films. Emma Reeves is best known for her writing for The Story of Tracy Beaker, Tracy Beaker Returns and The Dumping Ground.

Main cast

Recurring cast

Former main cast

Former recurring cast

Episodes

Series 1 (2015)

Episode
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in series		 Title Directed by Written by Original air date Viewers (millions)
11"All About Eve"Adrian McDowallEmma Reeves5 January 2015 (2015-01-05)N/A

Life changes beyond recognition for the Clarke family when Eve, the world's first fully sentient 'artificial person', comes to live under their roof. Eve is the first of her kind and, on the surface, she seems perfectly human. But scratch beneath that surface and you find a robot capable of amazing feats - if she manages to navigate her way through the perils of teenage life first. When maverick scientist Mary Douglas is thrown out of her own scientific institute, Calimov Systems, she orders Nick Clarke to destroy her top secret 'Project Eternity' prototype Eve. But just as he's about to disconnect Eve, Nick is stopped by his teenage son Will. Will reconnects Eve, bringing her to life. He persuades his dad to take her back to their home, where they'll need to keep Eve's existence a secret to protect her. But hiding Eve proves harder than expected. It will take all the ingenuity of Eve, Will and his best friend Lily to sort things out. Meanwhile, at Calimov Systems, Katherine Calvin is desperately trying to unlock the mystery of Project Eternity.

First Appearance: Poppy Lee Friar as Eve, Oliver Woollford as Will Clarke, Eubha Akilade as Lily Watson, Ben Cartwright as Nick Clarke, Rhona Croker as Katherine Calvin, Elijah Ayite as Abe Watson and Jane Asher as Mary Douglas.
22"A Real Girl"Adrian McDowallEmma Reeves12 January 2015 (2015-01-12)0.242
Eve is the world's first fully sentient 'artificial person'. She seems human, but under the surface she's a robot capable of amazing feats - if she can navigate her way through the perils of teenage life first. Eve struggles to fit in with the outside world. Will and Lily try to help, but driven by her protocols, Eve has her own ideas. Nick's boss Katherine is on the trail of Project Eternity, but does she realise Eve's secret? Lily's brother Abe takes Eve shopping, and she meets a wannabe girl gang, the GP2s, and tries to join by dressing and dancing like them - she even graffitis their tag and 'jacks' Lily's mum Maddy's car. But what is Protocol Zero, and who is Eve communicating with in private?
33"Beautiful Game"Adrian McDowallEmma Reeves19 January 2015 (2015-01-19)0.235
Will reluctantly has to explain the differences between boys and girls to a surprised Eve, and discovers that his robot friend has a hidden talent for goalkeeping. Will begs her to play for his failing team, but Eve wants to win, whatever the cost. Lily uncovers a mysterious Wi-Fi signal, but Eve insists it's not coming from her. Meanwhile, the cleaning spiderbot Nick has brought home from his work at Calimov has become sentient and goes out of control. Lily finds a connection between Eve and an attempt to hack into the systems of a local nuclear power station controlled by Calimov.
44"The Bubble Bursts"Adrian MeadEmma Reeves26 January 2015 (2015-01-26)N/A
Abe puts his feet up while Eve does his after-school deliveries. But when Eve goes into overdrive saving the planet, life gets dangerous.
55"Brain Freeze"Adrian McDowallAndrew Yerlett2 February 2015 (2015-02-02)0.251

Eve is desperate to try ice cream for the first time after Abe gets 'brain freeze' from a Goliath sundae. Nick absolutely forbids Eve to eat or drink, so she builds herself an ice cream machine. Nick wants to find out more about Project Eternity and discovers that the military are hunting for a missing computer chip. He realises that Mary put it inside Eve, so he bans her from leaving the house. When Nick finds out that the military chip will explode if exposed to very cold temperatures there is a desperate rush to stop Eve trying the ice cream she craves.

First Appearance: Billy Ashworth as Zac
66"Things That Go Beep in the Night"Adrian McDowallEmma Reeves9 February 2015 (2015-02-09)0.182
Will wants to take Eve to a Halloween party, but Nick forbids it. And when Nick discovers that his boss Katherine has found a way to track down the location of the military chip inside Eve, a desperate diversion is needed. Meanwhile, at the party, Eve is chatting to good-looking boy, Zac. But is there more to Zac than first appearances suggest? Will decides to shut Eve down and try to throw Zac off the scent. But it appears that Eve has formed an emotional attachment.
77"The X & Y Factor"Adrian MeadJoe Williams16 February 2015 (2015-02-16)0.250
Katherine suspects that Nick knows more about Project Eternity than he's letting on and dispatches Zac to flirt with Eve and gather information about Nick's secret work. Zac invites Eve out on a date to a karaoke cafe, but Eve's singing voice sounds like a computer modem. When Will discovers that Zac works for Katherine, he and Lily must race to the cafe before Eve's secret is out.
88"The Truth About Lies"Adrian MeadAnn Marie Di Mambro23 February 2015 (2015-02-23)0.238
Struggling to work out how to keep love-struck Eve away from Katherine's spy Zac, Will and Lily send her to hang out with Abe while they think up a plan. Abe is up to no good making dodgy fizzy drinks, so Eve quickly learns a thing or two about lying. Back at Will's house, Lily has an idea to protect Eve by getting Zac fired. Will calls Katherine pretending to be a German doctor looking for Zac and information about Calimov's secrets.
99"Trashed"Adrian MeadVivien Adam2 March 2015 (2015-03-02)0.226
Abe's tablet goes haywire - and then, apparently, so does Eve, who seems to have forgotten that she is a robot and that she ever knew a guy called Zac. But when Eve sees Lily's parents Maddy and Viv together, she begins to remember fragmentary flashes of Zac. Determined to fill in the blanks, Eve asks Maddy to drive her to Calimov, where Zac worked, so she can understand who he was and why he is no longer in her life. Will and Lily work out that Eve used Abe's clean-up software to delete her own memory.
1010"Mum's the Word"Jonathan Fox BassettAnn Marie Di Mambro9 March 2015 (2015-03-09)0.286
It is Lily's birthday, and Eve is intrigued by the wish Lily makes when she blows out her candles. Eve wants to try it out for herself and 'wishes' to meet her mother. This technically comes true when Mary appears in the form of a hologram before her, revealing to Eve that she is nearby, hiding in the woods. Eve tells Will, but he dismisses her 'wish' as a daydream. While Lily and Will discuss Eve's 'dream', Abe is eavesdropping in a bedroom cupboard. Abe understands that information about Mary's whereabouts pays well at Calimov. So, he anonymously calls Katherine with a tip-off that Mary is in the woods.
1111"IT Girl"Jonathan Fox BassettKirstie Swain16 March 2015 (2015-03-16)0.259
Lily returns from school upset because she was disqualified from the science fair competition as Will, her partner, didn't show up. Will barely apologizes - Lily could have gone with someone else. But Lily doesn't have any other friends. Lily has a brainwave and asks Eve, who has become a daytime TV addict, to come to school with her. At Calimov, Nick is banned from the research room where Katherine is trying to piece together burnt documents and photos recovered from Mary's cabin in the woods. Nick manages to get a sneak peek and realises that very soon the pieced-together jigsaw is going to reveal Eve as a robot. Nick needs to come up with a plan quickly.
1212"Control, Alter, Delete"Jonathan Fox BassettEmma Reeves23 March 2015 (2015-03-23)N/A
Will, Lily and Abe try to help Eve cope after she is devastated by the news that her 'mother' Mary is dead. Eve receives a hologram message that Mary had prerecorded, which gives her instructions about where to hide if she and her friends are ever in trouble. But, for now, Eve and Will do not want to leave their lives behind. In trying to silence Mr Bevan, who now knows Eve's secret, the gang inadvertently gives him more solid evidence. He threatens to tell the truth to the whole school. To keep Bevan quiet, Eve solves a famous maths problem and offers to give him the credit. Delighted, Bevan agrees. At Calimov, Katherine traps Nick into confessing his involvement with Project Eternity to save a colleague - and then tricks him into revealing the location of the secret lab. With the clock ticking, Nick, Eve and Will plan to run away. As Katherine closes in, a heroic Abe buys time for his friends.
1313"Eternity"Jonathan Fox BassettEmma Reeves4 April 2015 (2015-04-04)N/A
Will and Nick are caught by Katherine's minions and escorted to Calimov. Lily and Abe realise it is up to them to save the day. Lily hacks into Calimov's systems, but someone is there before her. At Calimov, Katherine offers Nick a choice: help her build an army of killer robots, or she will take Eve apart.

Special (2015)
No.
overall		 Title Directed by Written by Original air date Viewers
(millions)
14"Christmas Eve"Adrian McDowallEmma Reeves25 December 2015 (2015-12-25)TBD
It's Eve's first Christmas and after finding a way to connect to her mother, she has a million questions in her mind. She contacts Mary Douglas, but instead of answers, she contracts a software virus which activates her latent ability to dream. When Will finds Eve in an unresponsive state, he works tirelessly with Nick, Lily and Katherine to figure out what's wrong with her. They get a window into Eve's dream state, but Eve's brain wasn't wired to cope with imaginative visions and it's behaving weirdly. The software virus sends Eve into a cheerless parallel world, and as Eve can't distinguish between reality and dream, her systems start to shut down. Can Will and the gang save Eve from her Christmas nightmare? And can Abe escape his own nightmare - being 'Santa's little helper', dressed as a Christmas elf?

Series 2 (2016)
No.
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season		 Title Directed by Written by Original air date Viewers
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151"Do Not Build Them"Adrian McDowallEmma Reeves4 January 2016 (2016-01-04)TBD

Calimov has attracted the attention of an anti-artificial intelligence group called PRICE. Under pressure, Katherine promises Calimov's board representative, Mr Gwenlan, something extraordinary and plans to reveal the truth about Eve. But with the help of some old friends, Eve upsets Katherine's plans. When a Calimov drone is sabotaged, this is the last straw for the board. Katherine and Nick get fired. Eve and Will suspect that Mary is behind the sabotage. But Nick can't stop Mary attacking Eve's systems without access to his Calimov lab. So Eve has to go back into Calimov and pretend to work, right under Mr Gwenlan's nose.

First Appearance: Peter Collins as Mr Gwenlan and Michael Wildman as Lord Hoffman
162"Truth or Dare"Adrian McDowallVivien Adam11 January 2016 (2016-01-11)TBD

An ordinary day in Green Park begins with Eve helping Will to cheat on his homework and Abe teaching Eve the importance of 'dares'. But then Will's mum Rebecca arrives from Dubai. Nick is adamant that Rebecca must not learn the truth about Eve. Will is upset that his dad doesn't trust his mum. Meanwhile, Zac returns from Cuba determined to win Eve back. Eve is initially uncertain that she wants to be won back. Zac goes all out to prove his good intentions, but as Eve starts to think more positively about Zac, her body seems to protect her from her feelings and drives her away from Zac. At dinner with his mum, Will asks tough questions about her disappearance from his life and realises why Rebecca has come back. They get interrupted when Will spots Mr Gwenlan - who is supposed to be in prison. Mr Gwenlan chases after Will and finally corners him.

First Appearance: Jenny Bede as Rebecca Clarke.

Returned: Billy Ashworth as Zac.
173"The Mark of Cain"TBATBA18 January 2016 (2016-01-18)TBD

With Mr Gwenlan on the loose, Katherine wants Eve to be locked up at Calimov. Eve and Nick talk her out of it as long as Eve stays out of trouble. Yet when Eve offers to babysit Zoe, Lily's tearaway cousin, staying out of trouble seems wholly unlikely. To understand the behaviour of 'small humans', Eve lets Zoe run riot in the local park. When Katherine realises that Mr Gwenlan stole a spiderbot from Calimov, she's determined that Eve be kept under lock and key. Meanwhile Will and Lily start getting followed around everywhere by a strange boy called Cain. And when him and Lily start bonding, Will starts becoming a little jealous.

First Appearance: Chris Hegarty as Cain.
184"Party Girl"TBATBA25 January 2016 (2016-01-25)TBD
Eve feels compelled to try out a youth group called Party and drags her friends along to its lakeside activities. Eve loves Party, and its youth leader is impressed by Eve's attitude to technology. But when Eve becomes obsessed with the idea of canoeing on the lake, Will starts to get really nervous. Nick and Zac have worries of their own and attempt to listen into Mr Gwenlan's phone calls. When Mr Gwenlan turns out to be Party's co-founder and appears at the youth club, Will marches Eve home. Will can't understand why Eve's protocols aren't responding to danger and has strong words with Eve, but she storms off. Will, Lily and Zac reach the lakeside in time to find the youth group encouraging Eve to cross the lake on a rickety raft. If Eve falls in, it will be the end of her. To make matters worse, Will can't swim but dives in to try and save Eve anyway.
195"Power Games"TBATBA1 February 2016 (2016-02-01)TBD
Abe introduces Eve to 'basic sales techniques' getting her to help him sell mobile phones in the park. Once Eve gives the mobiles a turbo boost they start to sell like hot cakes. Abe is delighted until Eve sells a phone to Isaac, a young wheelchair user, for double the price. For Abe, a business line has been crossed - he even ends up paying Isaac to get the phone back. In another part of the business world, to protect Calimov from Price, Katherine has designed a new security system called Quincy. But when Quincy fails to stop a hack, Eve's secret is at risk. Eve herself is busy in the park teaching some manners to a gang of older boys, which leads Isaac to discovering something different about Eve.
206"The Eve of Destruction"TBATBA8 February 2016 (2016-02-08)TBD
Eve is infuriated by PARTY's anti-technology messages, she apparently causes a series of strange electrical surges and Abe gets a huge shock. Nick can't detect any outside interference, so Eve concludes that for her friends' safety, she must be deactivated. Will and Lily see a connection between Eve going haywire and PRICE attempting to hack into Calimov two days earlier. While Lily stalls Mr Gwenlan at a PARTY event, Will goes to his house but can't get inside. Will's call for help reactivates Eve who races out to help him. Inside Mr Gwenlan's house, Eve and Will discover more about what PRICE knows. But when Mr Gwenlan arrives home and intends to call the police, it's what Will knows that stops Mr Gwenlan in his tracks. Abe leaves hospital and is happy to forgive Eve in exchange for a new pair of trainers. Nick still can't believe that Eve caused the electric shock. And when Eve intercepts a communication between Mary and someone else - the source of the malfunction finally becomes clear.
217"A Case of Identity"TBATBA15 February 2016 (2016-02-15)TBD

Eve investigates the identity of Adam by channeling the methods of the great Sherlock Holmes. First Eve turns her attention to Isaac. Then Eve considers if it's Cain. Lily inspects and is shocked to discover the truth about Cain and his family. When Eve develops her intuition using Sherlock's method she overloads her system. Zac suggests that she'd be better off using her own processes and Eve realises that her tests have been flawed and that Mary could have built Adam to better pass for a human. Perhaps Adam can eat or even breathe? Meanwhile, Nick and Katherine attempt to discover the robot's identity by tricking Mary into revealing Adam's location. However Mary turns the tables, leaving them back at square one.

Final Appearance Issac as Cameron Allen
228"All About Adam"TBATBA22 February 2016 (2016-02-22)TBD
Faced with Zac, his identical clone Adam and no way of reliably working out who is who - even Eve is confused! The gang lock the robot and the human in the cellar while Eve runs to Calimov for help. One of the lookalikes breaks out and catches up with Eve, claiming he's Zac and that Katherine has captured Mary. Eve knows who she's dealing with and tries to make Adam accept that he's not Zac. But Eve's plan backfires when Mary orders Adam to bring Eve to her.
239"Giving Up the Ghost"TBATemplate:Mark Stevenson29 February 2016 (2016-02-29)TBD

Eve is devastated by Adam being irreparably damaged. To cheer her up, Abe suggests a ghost hunt! Will and Lily think he's crazy, but Eve is fascinated by the idea of ghosts - and the possibility that Adam might have one. Meanwhile, Katherine and Gwenlan concoct a plan to build giant EMP devices and remove the threat of Mary once and for all. But Nick is furious about the danger this poses to Eve and resigns from Calimov. Eve sets about finding a ghost and her behaviour becomes increasingly odd. But Eve's not the only one acting peculiarly as Abe seems intent to make everything in the house as scary as possible.

Final Appearance:Billy Ashworth as Zac/Adam and Chris Hegarty as Cain.
2410"Fair Cop"TBATBA7 March 2016 (2016-03-07)TBD

When Lily is arrested for hacking Lord Hoffman's computer, Will and Eve are desperate to save her. But Nick and Katherine can't help them as they concentrate on getting their new robot working in time for a major presentation. Inspired by her favourite robot film, Eve breaks into the police station, analyses the evidence against Lily and concludes that Lily has been set up. Will and Lily contact Mary, who believes Lord Hoffman is behind the arrest and offers to destroy the evidence against Lily - if Will and Eve destroy Katherine's new robot.

First Appearance: Ellie Grainger as KT.
2511"Her Sister's Keeper"Adrian MeadJoe Williams14 March 2016 (2016-03-14)TBD
With Will's assistance, Katherine's new robot KT comes to life.
2612"A Change in the World"TBAEmma Reeves21 March 2016 (2016-03-21)TBD

Eve tries to return KT by offering herself to Mary but Mary reveals that it's Will that she wants.

Final Appearance: Rhona Croker as Katherine Calvin and Michael Wildman as Lord Hoffman.

Awards and nominations

Ceremony Award Nominee Result
2015 British Academy Children's Awards[3] Children's Performer in 2015 Poppy Lee Friar Nominated
2016 Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards[4] Best Children's TV Episode Emma Reeves for "Control, Alter, Delete" Won
2016 Broadcast Awards[5] Best Children's Programme Eve Shortlisted

References

  1. ↑ "BBC - Eve - Media Centre". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "Poppy Lee Friar". IMDb. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "Children's in 2015 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  4. ↑ "Writers’ Guild Award winners 2016 - Writers' Guild of Great Britain". Writers' Guild of Great Britain. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  5. ↑ "Shortlist | Broadcast Awards". Broadcast Awards. Retrieved 2016-01-28.

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