Returning: Endeavour
Ninth and final season led by Shaun Evans screens just days after UK premiere.
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Prequel crime drama, Endeavour, returns to ABC for a ninth and final season.
With cast Shaun Evans (DS Endeavour Morse) and Roger Allam (DCI Fred Thursday), this screens just days after its UK premiere.
Set in Oxford during the 1960’s, against a backdrop of revolutionary social change, Endeavour chronicles the early criminal casebook of a young detective who will grow to be writer Colin Dexter’s immortal Inspector Morse.
Endeavour’s return to duty at Castle Gate, with a newfound sobriety, coincides with a gruesome discovery in a College garden. The investigation leads him and Thursday to a celebrated Oxford orchestra and, when a second tragedy hits, this time within their ranks, they uncover a web of secrets at the company’s core.
Meanwhile, grisly London business turns up on Oxford’s doorstep when a brutal murder is committed in a derelict warehouse. As the mystery unfolds, Endeavour and Thursday realise there are some unsettling connections to a case the pair had hoped was long since behind them.
Friday 3 March at 8.30pm on ABC
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They are, it starts on Feb 26th on ITV, A week after Vera finishes.
Endeavour has been in the 1970s since S7. There was talk of S9 jumping forward to 1973, the recession, but it looks like it will be 1972. Was hoping that ITV would run it after Vera before Easter, and the ABC would follow suit.
Given S12 of Vera kicks off this week for us, and Endeavour is only a matter of “a few days” away, I’d say Aunty’s done a pretty good job here. I’m more upset (if that’s the right word) that there will be no more Morse after this. Colin Dexter said Shaun Evans could play Morse as long as he wants, but after him the character ‘dies’.
In not really unrelated news, I’ve heard rumours for a couple of years that there’s a plan to revive/reboot Kavanagh QC. I wouldn’t say no.