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[Milz]

I think it's the influence of the Romance languages from the immigrant groups that settled in the US. Italians, Spanish, Portuguese pronounce the letter 'i' like the long 'e' in English.

[McBrien76]

The Morris prequel would be set in the 50s or 60s?

I wonder if Inspector Thursday will be more similar to Lewis or Hathaway or maybe someone like Foyle????

DI Fred Thursday (Roger Allam)

Thursday’s a very solid, honest cop in the station and he views Morse with some suspicion because he doesn’t know who is friends or enemies are, but he comes to trust him and they become a very good unit.

The way they work together is almost like father and son.

He has old school morals and values.

His feet are on the ground, he fought in the war. He’s seen a lot of terrible things in the war and he’s disappointed that Britain is being run as he puts it “by jumped up spivs”

Thursday encourages Endeavour to have a pint of real ale after he takes a turn for the worse following a particularly gruesome pathology examination. Unknowingly this sparks Endeavour’s love affair with the brown stuff!

Roger Allam previously appeared in Inspector Morse as a university lecturer whose wife gets murdered in Death Is Now My Neighbour here he is: http://www.filmdope....x?ActorID=38383


The rest of Oxford CID, 1965

Detective Chief Superintendent Crisp (Terence Harvey) : http://www.filmdope....x?ActorID=31336
Detective Sergeant Arthur Lott (Danny Webb): http://www.filmdope....x?ActorID=18086
Detective Constable Ian McLeash (Jack Ashton): http://www.talentand...63c6d2a7817.jpg
Detective Constable Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans): http://img.poptower....evans.jpg?d=600


The Endeavour , TV Movie has been subtitled 'First Bus to Woodstock' and begins with a young Detective Constable Morse contemplating resigning from the job as he's dissatisfied with his work and life in general to the point that he goes so far as writing a letter of resignation. However, he doesn't get around to sending it as he's asked to go to Oxford to assist in the hunt for a missing schoolgirl who later turns up dead.

Deep in a full-blown murder investigation, led by Detective Inspector Fred Thursday, Endeavour finds himself side-lined, discredited and at a dead end. 
 
Facing down the demons of his past, Endeavour begins his own quest in pursuit of justice, risking all in the hunt for a truth that will haunt him for the rest of his days.

Other cast

Rosalind Stromming.........FLORA MONTGOMERY (Basic Instinct II,The Murdoch Mysteries,Poirot:The Murder of Roger Ackroyd)
Dr Rowan Stromming.......RICHARD LINTERN (Lewis:Whom the Gods Would Destroy,Poirot: Dead Man's Mirror & Mrs McGinty's Dead)
Richard Lovell................PATRICK MALAHIDE(Alleyn Mysteries,Inspector Morse:Driven to Distraction,Five Days)
Dr Max De Bryn..............JAMES BRADSHAW (Primeval,Brideshead Revisited (2008))

Cameo appearances:

Dorothea Frazil, Editor Oxford Mail played by Abigail Thaw who is John's daughter from his first marriage to Sally Alexander and has appeared in Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Clocks, Midsomer Murders:Small Mercies,and Vanity Fair (1998): http://raisingsilver...abigailthaw.png

Also look out for Colin Dexter in the scene where Thursday takes Morse for a pint of Real Ale.

[Navona]

Always suspected Morse was a handsome young fellow - but, not quite that handsome. Can't wait in any event.

As to Case Histories - I saw zero chemistry between Brodie and Louise - all they did was argue and I know that for some reason film and television believe that people who squabble often have an attraction for each other and sometimes they have pulled it off, but here I fully would have expected Louise to hate the guy if I didn't know what they were trying to sell me.

And, as to Louise. I have seen few worse detectives/police officers in a show in a long time. Everything Brodie first brings to her attention, she blows off and, if I recall correctly, doesn't some around until some other bad or dastardly thing has happened. She needs another gig.

Glad to read that spoiler above about them.

After the first one, I began to rather enjoy the way there was a thread connecting the cases/characters and the way it was revealed throughout the episodes. Pretty clever though I wasn't at all surprised that he was the one to find the young girl after the murders. That was telegraphed a million miles away - perhaps if she had asked only once if she knew him, it might have come as a surprise.

I can't wait for the new season. I sure wish BBC America would go back to having a weekly mystery night. I know we were lucky to get Luther and Whitechapel recently but I need more! And, I liked the Hour and know I will again like State of Play but more mysteries, please!

[Milz]

RE: Brodie and Louise fights = chemistry

That's the impression I got with the books. They are attracted to each other, but they are at odds with each other.

Colin Dexter cameos: good to see him carrying on that tradition. I remember coming across a website once that listed the Dexter cameos. And I remember reading somewhere he makes cameos on Inspector Lewis too.

Edited by Milz, Dec 6, 2011 @ 12:33 PM.

[M. Darcy]

Re: Brodie and Louise I just read the 3rd book and both of their marriages were over by the end of the book. So, I still have hope :-) I like them together.

I remember coming across a website once that listed the Dexter cameos.

If you look up each Morse episode on IMDB, they always describe his cameo so it makes it easy to find him.

[Milz]

Brodie and Louise: wait 'til you get to book 4. The one bright spot about the series is that Julia has been presumably written out. as

The website with the Dexter cameos I remember seeing was a list of the episodes and who Dexter is and what/where he is. for example, Man in tweed coat walking by as Morse exits his car (not exact, but you get the gist).

[McBrien76]

I thought Morse spent time in the Army after he flunked out (due in part to a broken heart). This makes it sound like he flunked out, then walked down the street, and joined the police force.

They haven't forgotten the chronology as one of Morse's ex-college friends makes a quip about the Foreign Legion when they bump into each other for the first time.

There's also an 'in-joke' between Shaun Evans and Abigail Thaw at the end of their scene together.

ITV are now considering making Endeavour into a series after originally billing it as a one-off to mark the 25th Anniversary of Inspector Morse following ratings of 6.5 million: http://www.thesun.co...-off-drama.html

Edited by McBrien76, May 11, 2012 @ 7:04 AM.

[commenter]

Is anyone watching Zen, currently re-airing on WNET? I just had a light-bulb moment watching the last episode, "Cabal," that ran last Thursday in NYC.

I was a bit wary of the secretary who started an affair with Zen right after joining his department when she accidentally told his pursuers he was in the mountains in the first episode. So when the Cabal-fleer told Zen his department was compromised by the Cabal, she came to mind as a possible suspect (although any number of others may also be suspect).

But the light bulb moment was when Zen asked her to look on someone's computer for anything about "an organization called a cabal," and she immediately went, "The Cabal? What's that?"

He didn't say "The" even though that is the way it's known. (It's like someone claiming never to have heard of The Mafia referring to it as that when someone mentions "an organization called a mafia.")

My suspicions were further strengthened by Zen's reaction. Sitting back in his chair, he didn't look her in the eye for several sentences after that, and cut short his answer and gave a vague one. His demeanor prompted her to ask if something was the matter. He left rather suddenly soon after that.

In a subsequent scene, questioning a "courtesan" after a funeral, Zen throws out, "One last question: what do you know about the cabal?" or something to that effect. When she says "The what?" he says, "Never mind," satisfied that she really doesn't know. That made me think that the secretary's reaction clued him in on how to distinguish the cabal-insiders or cabal-aware from the non-aware.

Anyhow, I'll watch the rest of that ep and then the last (1 or 2) shows to see if I'm right, but I just wondered if anyone else was following the series this time around (I began but never finished watching it when it first aired). Judging by the zero traffic here on it, maybe no-one else is.

Edited by commenter, Jan 18, 2012 @ 7:34 PM.

[McBrien76]

Enjoy new episodes of Lewis while you can as star Kevin Whately has suggested the detective drama could soon be coming to an end.

When asked at the Radio Times Covers Party about the future of the series, Whately admitted that he doesn’t see himself playing the role of Robbie Lewis for much longer as his character is fast approaching “police retirement age”.

Whately, now aged 60, assured fans that there’ll be another batch of episodes next year, after which point it will be a case of “we’ll see”.

For more news of this, plus revelations about how Whately almost quit his role as Inspector Morse’s sidekick after only three years back in 1989, watch the video : http://www.radiotime...-quitting-lewis

In the meantime, 4 episodes have been filmed for 2012 transmission:

The Soul of Genius by Rachel Bennette

When botanist LIV NASH (Nadine Lewington) accidentally digs up the body of recently buried English Professor, MURRAY HAWES, Lewis and Hathaway are set upon a seemingly impossible quest. Murray was a man possessed - fixated upon "solving" the riddle of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark". But could his obsession have been dangerous enough to get him killed?

guests:

James Fleet (The Vicar of Dibley,Little Dorrit),Celia Imrie (Daniel Deronda,Kingdom),Alex Jennings (Whitechapel,Cranford,The State Within), Matilda Zeigler (Lark Rise to Candleford,)


Fearful Symmetry by Russell Lewis

When babysitter, JESSICA LAKE (Abigail Hardingham), is discovered dead, it immediately throws up a number of questions.Was the killing opportunistic or calculated? Was Jess actually the intended victim, since NICK (Ciaran McMenamin) and HONEY ADDAMS (Georgia Taylor) were supposedly due to return that evening, plus their regular babysitter cancelled at the last minute? And finally, why was she tied-up post mortem?

guests:

Anna Wilson-Jones(Monarch of the Glen),Ciarán McMenamin (Jericho,Primeval),Lucy Cohu (Torchwood,Gosford Park,Rebecca)



Generation of Vipers by Patrick Harbinson

Super intelligent, but incredibly lonely professor MIRANDA THORNTON (Julie Cox), is devastated when she discovers that her Heart&Soul internet dating video has somehow found its way onto the subversive media blog, TheBarker.biz. With half her students giggling at the footage on their iphones, and slimy former date, FRANCIS MITCHELL (Alex Hanson), seeing her distress as a "romantic" opportunity, Miranda returns home - and is found dead the next morning. In her hand she is clutching a newspaper article about millionaire businessman, DAVID CONNELLY (Toby Stephens), who has been her nemesis for the last couple of years, proposing to buy up much of her college's land for housing development...

Guests:

Toby Stephens (Die Another Day,Jane Eyre,Cambridge Spies),Roxanne McKee (Game of Thrones,Hollyoaks),Daniel Lapaine (Death on the Nile (2004),Hotel Babylon),Freddie Fox (Any Human Heart,The Three Musketeers) Nb: son of Edward Fox,


The Indelible Stain by Simon Block

When controversial American academic, PAUL YELLAND (David Soul), is invited to speak at Oxford’s Department of Criminology about his theory of "dangerousness", it stirs up a lot of deep-seated emotions. Many are worried that such ideas could be used to target ethnic minorities; and local anti-racism activist, MYRA (Sian Webber), is the leader of the pack in voicing her disgust at Yelland's beliefs. However, the professor faces just as much opposition within the lecture theatre, with the department’s Director, ANNE RAND (Nancy Carroll), clearly very pleased at the publicity the event is raising for the college. Next morning, the visiting professor is found strangled in his room – is it suicide or an anti-hate lynching?


Guests:

Patrick Baladi (Mistresses,The Blue Geranium,The Merchant of Venice),David Calder (Titanic,Bramwell,The Last Enemy,Marple:The Blue Geranium),Nina Sosanya (Casanova,Love Actually,The Jury,Prime Suspect II),David Soul(Starsky and Hutch)

Edited by McBrien76, May 11, 2012 @ 7:42 AM.

[McBrien76]

Michael Kitchen returns in a new series of Foyle's War on ITV in 2013

ITV, Acorn Media, and Eleventh Hour Films today confirmed a new series of Foyle’s War starring Michael Kitchen and created by celebrated novelist and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz.

Three x 120 minute films have been ordered from Eleventh Hour Films, the production company founded by producer Jill Green. Eleventh Hour Films takes pride in the research work undertaken for each story as all three episodes are firmly based on true stories from 1946 onwards.

read more: http://www.itv.com/p...12/default.html

Edited by McBrien76, Feb 24, 2012 @ 7:14 AM.

[McBrien76]

ITV commissions new series of Morse prequel Endeavour (4x120 mins)

Following the hugely enthusiastic audience response to the recent one-off Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour, a full series has been commissioned by ITV.

ITV’s Drama Commissioning team, Laura Mackie and Sally Haynes are delighted Mammoth Screen will produce 4 x 120 min episodes, filming on location in Oxford later this year.

http://www.itv.com/p...ur/default.html

[McBrien76]

Inspector Morse spinoff Lewis will remain on ITV1 for another series, it has been announced.

An ITV spokeswoman told BBC News: "We have a series of Lewis due on screen later this month and a further series goes into production in June. We remain committed to Lewis."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17994406

[ahnungslos]

Huuh, thank you, McBrien! I was worried they were going to leave it at that last one, which was not a last episode in any way.

Spoiler

(Well, maybe except for Lewis seemingly telling Hathaway that, after all, he won't pursue Laura...)

And Laurence's cousin's got the Foxy voice, yeah! (Though he did really well at playing the arrogant little git).

Edit: Hehe

And another one

Edited by ahnungslos, Jun 9, 2012 @ 9:40 AM.

[McBrien76]

Laurence Fox tells the Daily Telegraph that next year's series of Inspector Lewis will be the last.

It will, says Fox, en passant, be the last...“I mean the last for Lewis. Kev and I have decided we want to do other things, otherwise it all gets a bit samey,”

His next role – which he may or may not be permitted to divulge – is playing a squaddie on stage. Thereafter he and Mrs Fox, who is already “having meetings” about future work, quite fancy heading to the US, like so many Brits before them. “We’ll be looking for representation, doing auditions, that sort of thing. I’ll certainly be poshing up my vowels for the Americans,”

Read More: http://www.telegraph...creet-mess.html

[MsTaken]

Does anyone here read Carolyn Hart? The 'death on demand' series might be a bit (okay, more than a bit!) precious and twee for Mystery, but I think they could base a pretty terrific (mini-) series off the Hennie O. books.

For reasons that elude me, I could never get too into Morse or Lewis. I'm obsessed with all things Christie, though, and have found some of the Mystery adaptations surprisingly good. I know they've already done a zillion versions of (nearly) all her work, but I'd be fine with a zillion more!

[MarenAte]

I really wish they would do a series of the Arnaud Gamache books by Louise Penny. It's just a wonderful set of characters.

I do NOT like Zen at all even though I love Rufus Sewell.

[hlisy]

Inspector Morse spinoff Lewis will remain on ITV1 for another series, it has been announced.

While I love Lewis, I'm glad that its going to wrap up, after all how many murders can Oxford Uni have before it's shut down?:). Besides, there is always Endeavour(which I rather enjoyed).

The shipper in me would really like Laura and Lewis to finally get together in the last show. Thow us a bone!

Add me to the people who can't get into Zen.

Edited by hlisy, Jun 19, 2012 @ 10:05 PM.

[M. Darcy]

I do NOT like Zen at all even though I love Rufus Sewell.

Rufus is in the new Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter movie.

The upcoming schedule seems to be Endeavour on July 1st followed by a new series of Lewis.

Edited by M. Darcy, Jun 20, 2012 @ 3:39 PM.

[hlisy]

Watching Wallander and forgot just how depressing it is. Give me Inspector Lewis any day. Though I find it weird that books and newspapers are in Swedish and yet everyone speaks English.

Really wish they'd air Fobrydelsen.

[LeGrandElephant]

I'm watching Zen for the first time - the episode is "Vendetta". I'm not sure what the tone of this show usually is, but I'm surprised how much physical action and danger there is. I guess most of the Masterpiece stuff I've been watching has been more cerebral. Maybe that's just coincidence though - I usually only watch the ones my parents recommend, so maybe that's not a good representative sample. Anyway, its ok, but nothing special.

[ahnungslos]

The shipper in me would really like Laura and Lewis to finally get together in the last show. Thow us a bone!

Well... Heh. (No spoiler)

[hlisy]

Well... Heh. (No spoiler)

Awww. I've been watching Inspector Morse and Lewis is a way better boss than Morse, who always was pissed at poor Robbie. Also noticed that Morse seemed to fall in love with at least one female involved in each case. A bit unethical. And the Lewis/Hathaway banter is a bit more snappy. But I love the snarky old male coroner. Hee.

All said,I like Lewis better than Morse. But Oxford has always been a murder capital. The last Morse I watched had five victims over the course of the show-including a child! Yet people still want to send their children there. Go figure.

[basiltherat]

Just saw Endeavor, and it explains a lot about Morse's propensity for falling in "love" every case. He was young and starry-eyed once, before he became a curmudgeon. The 20 year reflection was a great touch.

I have been to Oxford on "holiday" three or four times and, to my knowledge, there were a minimum of murders and hardly any of a sleazy sexual nature. Of course, I live in Chicago, so I may be de-sensitized. Any kind of story set in Oxford is appealing to me, even if it were about Morse's cats.

[Writing Wrongs]

Also noticed that Morse seemed to fall in love with at least one female involved in each case. A bit unethical.

Yeah. I tried to watch Inspector Morse shows, but that aspect annoyed me and I couldn't get through them. Much prefer Inspector Lewis.

I watched Endeavor and I see he's always been that way. Was the newspaper lady supposed to be a nod to someone in the later Morse series? When she thought she knew him and then said "Maybe in another life." I wondered if that was an in-joke or something.

[Sukeyna]

Was the newspaper lady supposed to be a nod to someone in the later Morse series? When she thought she knew him and then said "Maybe in another life." I wondered if that was an in-joke or something.

The actress was Abigail Thaw, daughter of John Thaw. A sweet homage.

[hlisy]

The actress was Abigail Thaw, daughter of John Thaw. A sweet homage.

Thought that was a nice nod as well as seeing John Thaw in the rear view mirror. I thought his Gov would be a bit more hard nose towards him since he was so grumpy to Lewis most of the time.

Ill watch the series since I'm a sucker for historical murder mysteries and I liked the two leads.

[JudyObscure]

I didn't follow the Inspector Morse series although I've seen all of the Lewis and Hathaway myseteries and now I've watched, and liked, "Endeavour," very much. I'll have to catch up with the missing link.

I'm enjoying seeing an impulsive young detective who messes up from time to time. I think I can learn more from his mistakes than all the impossibly brilliant detectives we're used to seeing on both sides of the pond.

He's not very "well nourished," though. If he stopped by to question me, I'd make sure he had some tea and biscuits before he left.

[susan sunflower]

Enjoyed Endeavor more than I have anything in a long time -- well written, well paced and well acted. It was the most intricately plotted and -- extra bonus -- it made sense. I found the actor ( Shaun Evans ) playing young Morse grew on me throughout (though I admit I did feel my age). The shout out to other Morse characters was fun as well. I also remember a used car salesman (or driving instructor) but of similar sleaze figuring prominentnly. I have to admit it was probably the writing that put it over the top. I like a good mystery when I can find one and, although I began to suspect at some point, it was not obvious and I was interested in the how and why and it made sense -- thank god, not another loony-tunes unexpectedly crazy/vindictive person you would never suspect (my problem with Lewis whose plotting mimics Midsomer Murders).

I liked the last Zen I saw, having utterly failed to like anything about the first season. While it may be me, it felt less pretentious and "arty" for the sake of being arty and I was able to follow it better (my irritation having not got the better of me).

Count me as a Wallander fan, so I'm glad he'll be back and we'll continue his journey through mid-life crisis ... what does it all mean after all???

Anyway, just wanted to pop in to give Endeavor a big thumbs-up. I was flagging even on Sherlock, having become to my taste too much interpersonal soap opera and too little saving the empire from evil-doers ...

Edited by susan sunflower, Jul 2, 2012 @ 8:22 AM.

[swansong]

Yeah. I tried to watch Inspector Morse shows, but that aspect annoyed me and I couldn't get through them. Much prefer Inspector Lewis.

Heh, I always thought Lewis seemed to have adopted that trait from his mentor. I can think of a few episodes where he seemed to be falling for someone who was a potential suspect or fell for someone who turned out to be guilty.

Just saw Endeavor, and it explains a lot about Morse's propensity for falling in "love" every case. He was young and starry-eyed once, before he became a curmudgeon. The 20 year reflection was a great touch.

I thought that was a nice touch because even though he always seemed so miserable he always came off as kind of earnest and a bit too idealistic. I always thought maybe that's why he was so miserable because he had this kind of romanticised view of the world and people that was always being disappointed.lol

[Spicy Bubbles]

Apparently I've seen too many gangster movies or something, because at the end of the episode, when Morse & Thomas (?) were stopped at the traffic light, I thought someone was going to jump out of the truck behind them or the car in front of them & shoot someone dead, in response to the investigation into the sex parties.

So only one episode? Are there plans for more Endeavours?