Endeavour?

[thefemaleJoshLyman]

Did anyone watch Endeavour? What was the thing with the ring at the end?

ITV website works fine for me. Maybe try a different browser? I use Google Chrome.

Downloaded Chrome onto my iPad and still can't get a programme on ITV player without downloading the app! Will now try my old Netbook and see if I can access it from there!

ah yes will be different if you're on an ipad - the netbook should work

It was a bit of a shocker last night's episode. I really do hope that a third series is made.

Spoilers from here on in - if you've yet to watch it look away now.

Of many references in the episode, Fred Thursday's reference to DI McNutt as a possible for Morse to learn his trade with if he (Thursday) ended up leaving was interesting - in hindsight at least given how the episode ended. McNutt appeared in one of the Morse episodes - 2nd / 3rd series I think - in which Morse and Lewis went to see
him about a case, and a little later in the episode he winded up as part of the body count.

Wondered therefore if this could be a way in to a third series if Thursday does not pull through, and provide a link to the original Morse.

There were just too many unanswered questions for ITV to let Endeavour finish for good. I'm not overly confident
about it though.

Well, that was a good one! Explains his problems with the Masons to some extent. Everybody seemed to be one, apart from the lovely DI Thursday.

I think Thursday survives because (in the earlier series of Morse) when Morse finds himself being framed in Masonic Mysteries he visits his old DI. He is named McNutt and became a vicar after the death of his wife (Win?). During the visit Morse tells Lewis that 'this man taught me all I know about policing' with regards to Mcnutt.

I also found this episode awfully relevant with regards to Jimmy Savile and Cyril Smith. Friends in high places and all that.....

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I hope Roger Allam is available to film another series.

Problem I think is Thursday's specfic reference to McNutt, so if the McNutt character was introduced in a third series we'd need a new actor. The Thursday character / Roger Allam is quite excellent though.

At least a new series of Lewis to look forward to.

Did anyone notice Morse refer to the remorseful day in the last episode? I enjoy all these allusions. Just waiting for him to make some comment about Geordies!

BREAKING NEWS: just spoke to a friend who lives in Oxford and she says they have been filming a new series recently

Hurray! Well, they have to!

Meanwhile, "Vholes, Jagger and Lightwood, lawyers".

Trillions, are you sure that it's Endeavour?

I thought that it was 'The Testament of youth'.

They've been recording Lewis - not sure about Endeavour. The new building for my old department is in I and looks swish.

I can't access the ITV/UTV players cos I'm not in the UK, boo hoo......

I assumed Strange had something to do with the police eventually turning up. I also felt that Bright is essentially honest, for all his faults, and that he was genuinely concerned for Morse at the end. I could of course be being hopelessly naive here.

Bright turns a blind eye.
Strange is an odd one.... make the decision...

He is a Mason in Morse.

Child abuse in the 70s? Masons? all covered up... ring any bells?

Just watched it and am .

I think it will be back - it has to be! Also, Shaun Evans said on This Morning that he thought there would be a few more series. I think Thursday will probably be out of it now, though, based on the McNutt character that has to come in soon if the series is going to be on much longer. I love Roger Allam's voice, so will miss that.

The original Morse story was written and based in the mid-seventies, but the TV version was 80s, so there is plenty of time available for Endeavour to do a few more series before they catch up with John Thaw.

Glad to hear Lewis is coming back, but it is only 3 real episodes as they are 3 two-part hour long stories. Better than nothing I suppose. Laurence Fox was quite vocal about not doing any more, so I wonder what changed his mind? Money probably.

He is coming back as an Inspector so that might have swayed it for him?

I still wonder if Lewis will turn out to be the son of that pregnant woman who got on the long distance coach in the first series. Maybe there will be a hint in Lewis.

Lewis and Morse were almost the same age in the first book.

An excellent programme, why do they only do a few episodes of the good ones?

Update from Oxford friend, who has a friend in the know: it is Lewis that's been filmed recently BUT there will definitely be another series of Endeavour! Yay

Yay!

If you watch As Time Goes By, Lionel's father married a Bunty. She would have been young in the 60s. I believe there was one on Keeping Up Appearances as well.