{"id":30273,"date":"2023-02-18T13:09:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T12:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1788084"},"modified":"2023-02-19T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T19:56:08","slug":"endeavour-star-on-final-season-you-cant-please-everyone-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/endeavour-star-on-final-season-you-cant-please-everyone-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Endeavour star on final season: \u2018You can\u2019t please everyone all the time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Shaun Evans said the team wanted the finale to &#8220;leave people feeling emotionally satisfied&#8221;. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By James Hibbs\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Saturday, 18 February 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>The highly anticipated ninth season of <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/endeavour-season-9-release-date\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Endeavour<\/a> will surely be a bittersweet watch for fans when it arrives on ITV later this month.<\/p>\n<p>While it will surely be a fond reunion with Shaun Evans\u2019 Morse, fans will also know that this is the last time we will see him onscreen, as this is set to be the final season.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing a long-running and beloved series such as Endeavour to a satisfying close is a difficult task \u2013 and it seems that Evans and the team are very aware of that.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"&quot;1\">Asked what the team behind the programme wanted to achieve with the show\u2019s final episode, Evans said: \u201cFinal episodes are always very difficult. You can\u2019t please all of the people all of the time.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"&quot;1\">\u201cWhat we wanted to do was to end Endeavour in a way that was fitting to all of the enormous work we had put into it over the last 10 years and also to all of the huge support we have had every year from the audience. To not leave anybody feeling short changed. To leave people feeling emotionally satisfied.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=354%2C236,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=354%2C236,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=404%2C269,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=404%2C269,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=554%2C369,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=554%2C369,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=407%2C271,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=407%2C271,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=555%2C370,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=555%2C370,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><img class=\"&quot;wp-image-1784668\" align=\"\" size-landscape_thumbnail=\"\" image-handler__image=\"\" image-handler__image--aspect=\"\" no-wrap=\"\" js-lazyload=\"\" data-src=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/endeavourseries9film105-6cc8868.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413&quot;\" width=\"&quot;620&quot;\" height=\"&quot;413&quot;\" alt=\"&quot;&quot;\" title=\"&quot;&quot;\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> Endeavour season 9<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"> <i>ITV<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"&quot;1\">He continued: \u201cIt\u2019s also a thank you, in a way. To say, \u2018Thank you so much for sticking with this over the past number of years.\u2019 To honour and respect that. So it\u2019s all of those things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso for it to feel irreconcilable. For it to feel closed. In terms of we won\u2019t be seeing Joan and Thursday again. We will see Morse and Strange again \u2018later on\u2019 in Inspector Morse but they will be very different versions of themselves. But our story is at its end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/endeavour-final-season-first-look-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Endeavour reveals first look at final season<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/nolly-russell-t-davies-crossroads-revenge-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Russell T Davies: Nolly is \u201crevenge\u201d for losing out on Crossroads job<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p>Evans\u2019 costar Roger Allam, who plays Fred Thursday, said: \u201cWe have given a satisfying junction for all of our regular characters. That was the difference between Inspector Morse and Russell Lewis\u2019s work on Endeavour. There is a lot of story in Endeavour devoted to relationships between the regular characters to a greater degree than there was in Inspector Morse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember when we were filming the wedding scenes we thought, \u2018Actually we\u2019ve never all been in a scene together.\u2019 And that\u2019s true. We never ever have. So we had to have a commemorative photo taken.\u201d<\/p> <p>Evans previously also teased that they had added <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/endeavour-star-subtle-tribute-inspector-morse-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">\u201csubtle\u201d<\/a> nods to Inspector Morse and the work of John Thaw in the role during their final episode.<\/p>\n<p>He said that there are \u201cnods and echoes in the final Endeavour episode to the very first Inspector Morse film \u2013 The Dead of Jericho \u2013 and the very last \u2013 The Remorseful Day\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cBut it\u2019s only the more discerning viewer who will realise what we have done. Those who have maybe watched all of the Inspector Morse episodes and all of the Endeavour series. We wanted to be fleet of foot about it.\u201d<\/p> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove\" embed=\"\"> <div class=\"&quot;embed__intrinsic&quot;\"> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove__player\" vjs-playlist-player-container=\"\"> <video data-video-id=\"&quot;6320024987112&quot;\" data-account=\"&quot;69912529001&quot;\" data-player=\"&quot;ByeOf0VZEl&quot;\" data-embed=\"&quot;default&quot;\" data-application-id=\"\" controls=\"\" class=\"&quot;video-js&quot;\"\/><\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script src=\"&quot;\/\/players.brightcove.net\/69912529001\/ByeOf0VZEl_default\/index.min.js&quot;\"\/><p><strong>Endeavour returns to ITV1 on Sunday 26th February at 8pm. 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