Everything you need to know about the Inspector Morse prequel, starring Shaun Evans as young Endeavour Morse and Roger Allam as DI Fred Thursday. <\/p>
ITV detective drama Endeavour returned earlier this year for an eighth season, reuniting Morse and Thursday for another round of crime-solving.<\/p>\n
The prequel to Inspector Morse kicked off its eighth instalment in 1971 in Oxford, and at the beginning of the three-part season, Morse is still grappling with the tragic events in season seven (you can read our full explainer piece here<\/a>).<\/p>\n However, there\u2019s little time before CID are hit with another huge case. In Endeavour season eight episode one<\/a>, titled Striker, a\u00a0small bomb explodes in an Oxford college, killing a professor\u2019s secretary.<\/p>\n And in the season finale, tensions mounted and Morse was effectively sidelined from a key investigation.<\/p>\n Will Endeavour return for a follow-up ninth season? Read on for everything you need to know.<\/p>\n Season nine has yet to be confirmed, and the cast have previously stressed that the show\u2019s future will depend on how season eight is received by viewers. We\u2019ll keep this page updated with any news.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019d want to see how these three films [in season eight] are received, then decide whether we feel there might be more to do,\u201d Shaun Evans previously told The Observer<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, given what we know from Inspector Morse about the future Endeavour \u2013 isolated, and apparently estranged from Thursday \u2013 there will likely be further scope for a ninth season.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll hopefully see the return of our two leads: Shaun Evans as Endeavour, and Roger Allam as Fred Thursday.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll also hopefully see other supporting characters in the Endeavour cast<\/a> return, including Joan Thursday<\/a> (Sara Vickers), Anton Lesser as Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright,\u00a0Sean Rigby as Detective Sergeant Jim Strange, and\u00a0Abigail Thaw as\u00a0journalist\u00a0Dorothea Frazil.<\/p> There\u2019s no trailer for Endeavour season nine as it has yet to be formally commissioned by ITV, but we\u2019ll keep this page updated.<\/p>\n Visit our TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0to discover what else you can watch tonight, or find all the latest news on our Drama<\/a> hub.<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n Everything you need to know about the Inspector Morse prequel, starring Shaun Evans as young Endeavour Morse and Roger Allam as DI Fred Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4933,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/endeavour-season-9-release-date-cast-trailer-and-latest-news.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/endeavour-season-9-release-date-cast-trailer-and-latest-news-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/endeavour-season-9-release-date-cast-trailer-and-latest-news-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/endeavour-season-9-release-date-cast-trailer-and-latest-news.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/endeavour-season-9-release-date-cast-trailer-and-latest-news.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/endeavour-season-9-release-date-cast-trailer-and-latest-news.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/endeavour-season-9-release-date-cast-trailer-and-latest-news.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Everything you need to know about the Inspector Morse prequel, starring Shaun Evans as young Endeavour Morse and Roger Allam as DI Fred Thursday.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/4932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Endeavour season 9 release date<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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