If you loved MORSE then watch .........................LEWIS..........................

[RTKangaMummy]

SUNDAY 29 JANUARY

Drama

Lewis

9:00pm - 11:00pm

ITV1 London

VIDEO Plus+: 9252
Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-described

Dramatised by Stephen Churchett

It was never going to be an easy act to follow. The ghost of John Thaw looms large over this handsome Inspector Morse sequel. But between them, Kevin Whately as Lewis, now promoted to inspector, and a shrewd new sidekick in the shape of Laurence Fox, pick up his torch and run with it. It helps that they've got a good script, the kind of precision-tooled whodunnit that reminds you how maddening it is when Midsomer Murders or Taggart take up 90 minutes of your time for a payoff that doesn't quite add up. Here, a student is shot dead at a sleep laboratory and the story behind her killing has elaborate parallels with a certain Shakespeare play. Whately's weary everyman act works as well as ever and Fox looks like he could single-handedly make up the charisma deficit left by Thaw. Let's hope this one-off leads to a series.

RT reviewer: David Butcher

DI Lewis - Kevin Whately

DS Hathaway - Laurence Fox

Ch Supt Innocent - Rebecca Front

Dr Laura Hobson - Clare Holman

Danny Griffon - Charlie Cox

Trudi Griffon - Jemma Redgrave

Rex Griffon - Jack Ellis

Tom Pollock - Danny Webb

Jessica Pollock - Flora Spencer-Longhurst

Regan Peverill - Sophie Winkleman

Ivor Denniston - Michael Maloney

Kate Jekyll - Lizzy McInnerny

DI Knox - Alex Knight

Bernard Beech - Colin Starkey

Mr Tanigaki - Dennis Matsuki

Hal Bose - Marc Elliott

Air stewardess - Rosalyn Wright

Club secretary - Michael Hobbs

Locksmith - Adam Smethurst

Uniformed PC - Mark Small

Secretary - Janet Maw

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i will be watching..got to remind myself that its not morse though, took me ages to get used to taggart, without taggart!

when lewis is leaving the airport at the begining look out for Morse red jaguar car that nearly runs him over, then it shows a woman driving it. It was going to be a man but he looked a bit too much like John Thaw so they changed it for a woman wearing dark glasses.

bumpity bump

Do I dare watch this? I loved Morse and it's weird that he won't be there.

I loved Morse too, but I'm gonna give this a go.

Thanks RTKM

Mmm, quite enjoyed this, except for the over-acting mother. "Not my booooy, my beautiful boooy". I liked Hathaway. "I was too frivolous for the priesthood"

I enjoyed. I actually thought it was a whole series, not just one episode.

Enjoyed it. Will watch again if they gove it a series.

Got the vote over the virgin queen, would watch a series.

Do you know if it is repeated? My s*dding sky plus failed again.

I missed it too, damn - I LOVE Morse. Did it have all the same characters? Was it really any good?

yes, was pretty good
same formula as a morse
lots of morse references - someone driving the same car, the Endevour scholarship, the crossword puzzles etc etc
I think itv will do more but initially is a one off