Actor playing the lead on Endeavour.

[marjproops]

just channel hopping and dont normally watch this type of prog but the lead actor playing Morse isnt bad!!!!

yep. left channel on, not bad at all...and Im not talking about his acting

DH keeps asking about who is playing his boss.
Why should I care - I'm multi-tasking (on here with one eye on the tv)

huh? theres a boss?!? My eyes have horse blinkers on, can only see the one guy !

I loved the pilot.

I found myself at the start if this one not watching the programme but listening to the Mozart mass in c

The boss is the actor from the thick of it, Roger Allam.

Thanks mummy

He is oddly endearing...

yep. enjoyed him that!

dont ask me what the episode was about, I can never remember Merlin either, too busy swooning at the guys!

ohhh, Roger Allam! - also in Cabin Pressure (with Benedict Cumberbatch) (& John Finnemore, who merely wrote it)

it's a close little world, isn't it

I just caught the end (?) of Endeavour & I rather liked the Morsey one too!

He's been in a few things with Rupert PJ, I think.

Roger Allam and Benedict C were also in Parade's End together, and Shaun Evans is also in a film with Benedict.

Small world indeed!

Think he used to go out with Sonia from Easteneders (who is my double)

are we still talking abiut endeavor guy? how does the cumberband get into every thread?!?

Sorry, marj! I think we're just making some points about how incestuous the world of acting seems to be sometimes.

thats okay, I hijak threads all the time without meaning to!!!!

Hijack is a bit strong! There's also been mention of Roger Allam and Rupert PJ, among others.

didnt mean hijack in a harsh sense, apologies, i always use that word for ME, i always say in posts 'hope im not hijaking thread' and then go and change original subject, totally unawares!!

i cant think of another softer term...erm....meander?

plus i was asking an innocent question, sorry if you got the wrong idea then, this is a lighthearted thread, genuinly didnt know which guy was being discussed.

No, I'm sorry ! I was being light-hearted I thought ? put the grin in to indicate that but obviously didn't communicate it well.

And to attempt to answer your question, I think the thing about 'him' going out with Sonia from EastEnders referred to Shaun Evans, not Cumberbatch.

oh okay grin back at you.

is that his name then? Shaun Evans? i just call him endeavor guy!

Yep, that's him, although I'm sure he wouldn't mind 'endeavour guy'!

now I know his name hes on this morning this morning! will put up with eammon holmes for a peek!

I rather like Endeavour too! Love the way the characters from Morse (eg Superintendent Strange) are in it too...

dont know squat about the Morse stuff, just like watching this actor. on this morning as we type, and ermmm.....

think i prefer him in the programme!

How come Morse wasn't scared of heights in tonight's episode?

I think this is really well done, and I love the nods to to the original series (and the casting of the young Dr Max the pathologist is spot on) but fear of heights was a big part of Morse's character and it really jarred watching him on the roof tonight.

I assumed many of the things in this series show how they shaped Morse in later life, e.g. Thursday obviously influencing him re.family life: Morse liking the loving set-up at the Thursday house but knowing (with the final conversation tonight) that he is incapable of leaving work at the door and knowing he couldn't inflict that on a family.