Cached Hathaway has been promoted to inspector after an extended break, and Lewis is enjoying retired life until hes asked to team up with his old colleague again.
Hanging on to John Thaw’s shirttails would have been just as popular,” he said. The series is a prequel to the original Inspector Morse, a classic British mystery that ran for 33 episodes over seven seasons from 1987-1993. Clare Margaret Holman (born 12 January 1964) is an English actress. title tt0874608 Inspector Lewis - Season 8 - IMDb. I’ll bet there are about 100 actors in Britain who could have played my part if they had been lucky enough to get it.
I think he took on far too much, and I don’t want to go the same way.”Īs for the global appeal of Inspector Lewis, Whately attributed it to "great scripts, good characters-that goes down well all over the world.”Įver modest, he denied the quality of his acting might also be responsible for the series’ popularity.
Having hit 65, I don’t want to work myself to death, which I think is what John Thaw did. The much loved Oxford policeman is once again joined by Laurence Fox (A Room with a View) as Lewis young partner DS Hathaway. He said he would like to “pick and choose more. Kevin Whately returns as Inspector Lewis for a second season. Whately, who is happily now spending time with a new granddaughter, gardening, and working on charity activities for disabled children and Alzheimer’s disease, said he would start "pestering" his agent again “from Christmas onwards” about new work. to The MASTERPIECE Trust, created to help ensure the series future. We worked on it ten years and think that’s enough,” he said. Kevin Whately stars as Inspector Lewis, once the working-class foil to DI Morse. Laurence and I have decided we don’t want to do it. Hampshire-born Ben Bishop has over 40 roles to his name, many of which have come in video games such as Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate and The Witcher 3 while he’s also held roles in Whitechapel, Hunderby and the Disney film The One and Only Ivan where he played the titular gorilla.įlavian Creech actor Anthony Flanagan has over 60 roles to his name at the time of writing, making him a familiar face to many.Īnthony made his on-screen debut back in 2002 but has recent appearances in ITV’s Wild Bill, 2020’s Dracula, Gentleman Jack, Versailles and season 1 of The Terror which aired on the BBC earlier this year.“We really have finished.
TV fans will know the Watford-born actress best from her appearances in Britannia, Peterloo, Allied, Mr Turner, Him & Her as well as The Crown where she played the Queen Mother in seasons 3 and 4.
Hes teamed with a new sidekick, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, and hes anxious to prove himself. So, for us, this newly greenlit ninth season will be Season 8 for us, but we haven’t missed anything to this point. Five years after the death of his mentor, Inspector Morse, Lewis is now an inspector himself and back at Oxford. Marion Bailey takes on a prominent role in episode 3 as she plays Hilda Bruce-Potter. (Americans, don’t worry we label the Lewis seasons differently here in the States, due to two of them being combined when they aired at one point several years back.