Hello everyone and welcome to a new post. Included in this post is the interview I did with Neela Debnath a journalist with the British Daily Express Newspaper. Also included in this post is what I have posted on Twitter and Facebook. I know that many of you do not participate in the afore mentioned social platforms, so this is for you.

Enjoy.

Up first the Daily Express interview.

Endeavour fans predict McNutt appearance in final ever episode.

Express.co.uk spoke exclusively to Inspector Morse fan Christopher Sullivan about his theories about the end of Endeavour ahead of ITV airing the finale this weekend.

Inspector Morse prequel series Endeavour is finally coming to an end after a decade on screens. The show is set in the 60s and 70s and follows a young Endeavour Morse (played by Shaun Evans) as he cracks cases alongside senior detective Fred Thursday (Roger Allam). The Endeavour series finale will be airing at the end of the week on ITV1 and ITVX with one last instalment aptly titled Exeunt, which is Latin for ‘they go out’ and is also a stage direction for characters to leave the stage.

Endeavour fan Sullivan, 63, said: “The character that appeared in the original Morse, it was the only person from John Thaw’s past that he talked about, McNutt.

“He’s played by the Scottish actor Iain Cuthbertson and he said he was his mentor. The only person he’s ever talked about from his past in that context.

“I thought [Endeavour creator] Russell Lewis was going to bring in McNutt, it seemed the obvious choice but Fred Thursday is again a great character.”

With Thursday essentially filling in the mentor role in Endeavour, it would make sense to marry up the two series if McNutt makes an appearance in the prequel’s finale.

McNutt featured in the Inspector Morse story Masonic Mysteries as a vicar, retired from the police force.

“I think McNutt might turn up in the final series,” Sullivan said. “I think McNutt will turn up in the last scene of the last episode and that again would give the connection for all the fans like me to connect to the original Morse.

“But of course Fred has to die in the last series because that has to explain why he’s never mentioned in the original series.

“So, my thoughts have always been it’s going to be a death where Endeavour blames himself and that’s why he never talks about him because he feels so guilty about what happened, but that’s just my theory.”

Sullivan isn’t alone in his theory, fans have also been speculating online about how the story will be concluded with Thursday expected to be killed off as he is never mentioned in the original Inspector Morse series.

On Twitter Rob Maggs posted: “Fred dies it’s why McNutt takes over, Sam needs fresh start and Jim Strsnge [sic] wife of course is Audrey NOT Joan and they married in 1979 and in those days you didn’t have 7 years engagements. #Endeavour #Mcnutt.”

While Cymru Am Byth said: “@ITV I will say that Thursday retires. In the Morse episode “Masonic Mysteries,” he and Lewis go to see the retired Inspector McNutt, who is a former mentor of Morse’s, and is mentioned once in Endeavour.”

A third fan Russell Truran tweeted: “I wonder if we finally get to meet McNutt next week…? #Endeavour.”

While a fourth person suggested: “Could @ITVX and @mammothscreen could get together and create a new series based on the cerebral eccentric sleuth McNutt.

“Starting in the 1950s following his mysteries amongst the tranquil spires of Oxford up until he meets Morse in 1972?! This would be lovely. #Endeavour #ITV.”

Sullivan started his Morse, Lewis and Endeavour blog back in 2014 to celebrate his love of Colin Dexter’s detective world, which he refers to as the ‘Morse Universe’.

The former ecological scientist from Edinburgh has been posting on his blog for nearly 10 years about all things from the Morse Universe after falling in love with author Dexter’s work when he discovered an Inspector Morse novel in a second-hand bookshop.

Part of the reason for running the blog was to continue to keep Dexter’s work and legacy in the public, particularly after his death in 2017.

Reflecting on the appeal of Morse Universe with the franchise being part of his life for 43 years, Sullivan said: “If the black dog is getting close, I’ll pop my favourite episode of Morse, Lewis or Endeavour on and watch them and even though they might make me cry, it can be quite cathartic. It’s always helped me that way.”

He said other fans had echoed similar sentiments about the show helping them get through a tough time.

Adding: “I think that’s why I love it so much because it always helps me get through bad times.”

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Now onto posts from my FB and Twitter accounts.

From the director Kate Saxon’s Twitter account. Kate directs the final episode of Endeavour series 9. Shaun with James Bradshaw (Max DeBryn).

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A website subscriber said this after he viewed the Morse episode, Happy Families, “The ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ angle with Lorraine seems pointless and why she is so flirtatious is beyond me.”
Yesterday, Sukie Smith who played Lorraine replied, “Lorraine, aka me, flirted with Morse because he had enormous star power and chutzpah. He was such a mighty man.”

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From the John Thaw Archive Twitter account. A Year in Provence.

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The Drawing Room of the Randolph Hotel.

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THE ENDEAVOUR INTERVIEWS 2023: RUSSELL LEWIS PART I

Click HERE to read the interview.

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From @simplyoxford on Twitter.

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From @simplyoxford Twitter.

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Another from Roy on Twitter.

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From @simplyoxford Twitter account.

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From Kate Saxon’s Twiter. She directed the final episode of series nine.

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Anne, kindly sent me this photo taken during filming of series 9 by someone calling themselves Endeavourneverland.
It shows Endeavour with books by Kent Finn. Kent Finn (played by Adam Jones) appeared in the episode, Game. So, does Kent Finn reappear in the new series? His books did show in the Confection episode though Kent himself never appeared in the episode.
Myself and a few others have always wondered, and hoped, whether Kent Finn was the future Hugo DeVries. Time will tell.

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One from Roy Slater on Twitter.

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Next up an article from oxinthebox.co.uk.

“I’VE NEVER HAD A RELATIONSHIP LIKE THAT BEFORE WITH ANOTHER ACTOR” ROGER ALLAM ON SHAUN EVANS AND THE FINAL SERIES OF ENDEAVOUR!

Click HERE to read the article.

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Another from Roy. Looks like it was taken during the filming of Death of the Self.

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Another from Roy.

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Another from Roy on Twitter.

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Commented Shaun Evans:
“I’ve previously worked with World Productions and ITV separately, so I’m looking forward to joining forces to tell this story. A story that is quite rightly told through the victim’s lens, Delia. We have an excellent script from Nick Stevens and I couldn’t be more delighted to work with Anna.”

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Matthew Slater who composes the music for the Endeavour series has made an exciting announcement on his Twitter account.

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I asked Matthew Slater, the composer of the music in the Endeavour series, if he would be including the lovely piece from the Pylon episode in his soon to be released album. He said, yes.

 

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From 1992. A show called, B&B. An out-of-work architect turns his house into a bed and breakfast hotel.

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Thanks to Roy for this photo. John and Celia Imrie taken during filming of Into the Blue. Of course, Celia turned up in Lewis episode, The Soul of Genius.

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I created this video as a bit of fun for my Twitch stream. Here it is for those who are not part of the Twitch stream. Those of a certain age will recognise the theme tune. I hope you enjoy.

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I’m working on a review of the Endeavour episode, Arcadia (Series 3, Episode 2). Here’s an interesting teaser. The woman we see collapsing to the ground near the beginning of the episode falls outside number 59 Holywell Street, Oxford. Which coincidentally is the home of Scarlett Mortmaigne in the Lewis episode, The Dead of Winter. The Lewis episode was broadcast 2010 and the Endeavour episode 2016. Is it a coincidence or did Russell Lewis ask the Endeavour film team to have the lady collapse there? What do you think?

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From the Twitter account of David Allen @dave9allen

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From Lucy Briers Twitter.

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Another from The Sweeney Archive on Twitter.

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One from Rodney Marshall on Twitter.

 

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