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FINAL-1 Sat, Aug 12, 2017 5:07:59 PM Oxford’s fi nest tvspotlight A favorite British sleuth celebrates a mile- stone anniversary this year with the Your Weekly Guide to TV Entertainment fourth season of “Endeavour,” premier- • For the week of August 19 - 25, 2017 • ing Sunday, Aug. 20, on PBS. 2017 marks 30 years on the screen for Det. Insp. Morse, now portrayed by English actor Shaun Evans (“Teachers”) in the prequel to the long-running “Inspector Morse.” Shaun Evans stars in “Endeavour” Look for a few nods to the original series this season, which was already aired in the U.K. to an audiences of millions. OMNI Security Team Residential & Commercial Security • Fire & Access Systems and Video Surveillance Big enough to serve you - Small enough to know you Omni Security 2 x 3.5” SERVING OUR COMMUNITY FOR OVER 35 YEARS Put Your Trust in Our Family to Protect Your Family. 24/7 Alarm & Security Monitoring Remote Access & Wireless Technology MA Lic. 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The season aver- the villainous Ronan, the ing up with Abigail (Marlohe) TV Media that’s kind of a cliché for detec- have been a success on the aged seven million viewers, en- Guardians of the Galaxy — Pe- and Michael (Gernandt), two tives, but there was something screen as well. joying a slight uptick from season ter Quill (Pratt), Gamora (Sal- Alterplex employees, he be- e certainly do love our about it that I thought, ‘That’s in- “Endeavour” isn’t the first 3’s average of 6.8 million. A lon- dana), Drax (Bautista), Rocket gins to realize that his mission British TV detectives. teresting.’ How do you get this “Morse” spinoff. “Inspector Lew- ger fifth season of the drama is (Cooper) and Baby Groot (Die- isn’t exactly what he was led WFrom “Sherlock” to guy now to where he is then? is,” another “Masterpiece Mys- already in the works. sel) — are thrown back into to believe. “Midsomer Murders,” “Father And if we can start to see who tery” series, is centered on Det. As for Morse’s pearl anniver- cosmic action when they crash Director: Tim Smit. Stars: Dan this person is when he’s in his Brown” to “Grantchester,” and Insp. Robert Lewis (Kevin Whate- sary on the screen, don’t think land on a planet after their Stevens, Tygo Gernandt, Béré- “Broadchurch” to “Wallander,” mid-20s, then that’s an interest- ly, “The English Patient,” 1996) the milestone is going unnoticed. nice Marlohe, Mike Reus, Bas British crime shows prove just as ing starting point, I thought ... Morse’s sergeant in the original Keep an eye out this season for ship is attacked by drones. There, Quill’s mysterious father, Keijzer, Gijs Scholten van As- wildly popular with audiences on what is there in your mid-20s series. It, too, was a huge hit for tributes to the original inspector chat, Charity Wakefield. 2017. Ego (Russell), makes contact this side of the Atlantic as they do that makes you who you are in ITV and “Masterpiece,” running in the form of cameos and char- 91 min. Sci-Fi. and offers Quill the truth of his with our British counterparts. your 50s?” for nine seasons and drawing acter appearances. Thaw’s One English sleuth in particu- Roger Allam (“The Thick of It”) millions of viewers each week. daughter, Abigail Thaw (“I Want heritage. Ego reveals that he is lar is celebrating a significant an- stars opposite Evans as Det. Chief “Endeavour’s” four-episode My Wife Back”), already has a a god-like being of incredible Scales: Mermaids Are niversary on the screen this year. Insp. Fred Thursday, Morse’s col- fourth season aired in January on regular role in the series as Doro- power and that his son holds Real The fourth season of “Endeav- league and mentor. Other mem- ITV in the U.K. and, as has been thea Frazil, the editor of the Ox- within him the power to alter Not long before her 12th birth- our” marks 30 years on the bers of the Oxfordshire Police the case with previous seasons, ford Mail newspaper, but his wid- the shape of the entire cosmos. day, Siren Phillips (Perry) learns screen for Det. Insp. Morse, who Criminal Investigation Depart- the numbers ow, Sheila Hancock (“The Boy in Director: James Gunn. Stars: a shocking truth: that she is far made his first appearance in ment include Police Community speak the Striped Pajamas,” 2008), also Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, from an ordinary girl and will 1987 in the eponymous detective Support Officer Reginald Bright appears this season in a guest Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, turn into a mermaid on her (Anton Lesser, “Game of drama “Inspector Morse,” played role. Watch for an appear- Bradley Cooper, Kurt Russell, birthday. While she says her Thrones), Det. Sgt. Jim Strange ance by James Laurenson by John Thaw. In “Endeavour,” goodbyes to her friends, in- we’re given a look at a younger, (Sean Rigby in his first main (“Boney”) as well, in a nod Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, fresher Morse, and the “Master- role) and Det. Sgt. Peter to the first-ever “Inspector Pom Klementieff. 2017. 136 cluding a cute new boy at piece Mystery” offering has Jakes (Jack Laskey, “X Morse” episode, in which min. Action. school (Grazer), a sinister found great success both here Company). Dakota Blue he played Tony Richards. group of mermaid hunters finds her trail and becomes and across the pond. The season Richards (“Skins”) Russell Lewis, “Endeav- Kill Switch 4 premiere airs Sunday, Aug. 20, plays Woman Police our’s” creator and a committed to catching her be- on PBS. Const. Shirley Trew- writer for “Morse,” When Earth’s fossil fuels are fore she makes her final transi- “Endeavour” — the rather un- love — a somewhat returns to script exhausted, a major corpora- tion to life in the sea. fortunate first name of Insp. uncommon sight as this season, so tion called Alterplex builds a Director: Kevan Peterson. Stars: Morse — is a prequel to the a young female con- you can expect massive tower capable of tap- Emmy Perry, Jack Dylan Grazer, long-running series that first in- stable in the ‘60s. the storylines to be ping into the limitless energy Morgan Fairchild, Elisabeth troduced us to the character (and While both Thaw just as compelling as of a mirror universe called Röhm, Nikki Hahn, Kimberly in which said first name is seldom and Evans paint an ever. Don’t miss the re- “The Echo.” When bizarre Hidalgo, Stephen Snedden. uttered). It stars Shaun Evans excellent picture of turn of the “Master- anomalies begin to occur on a 2017. 92 min. Fantasy. (“Teachers”) in the title role, and the ornery detective, piece Mystery” drama the character is decidedly less it’s Colin Dexter whom when “Endeavour” de- curmudgeonly than the man, as you can thank for the buts its fourth season “Morse” fans know, he grows to character. “Inspector — a milestone one for be. Morse” is based on a se- the character of Endeav- Whereas in the original series, ries of books by Dexter, our Morse — Sunday, Morse is an established, middle- who penned 13 novels about Aug. 20, on PBS. aged detective, the 1960s-set Morse, as well as several novel- “Endeavour” shows us a 20- las and short stories. The author something Morse just starting won a number of awards for out in his career, at which he the books and, in 2000, was Dakota Blue Richards as nonetheless proves highly adept. appointed an Officer of the seen in “Endeavour” The character’s traits and person- Order of the British Em- ality are well established and rec- pire for services to liter- ognized in “Inspector Morse” — ature. It’s unsur- brilliant, if more than a little prising that prickly and sullen, with a fond- his stories ness for English ale, classic cars and and crossword puzzles. Evans gives us some of this in “Endeav- our,” but the series also shows us the younger Morse as a sepa- rate, softer entity. “This is a character who’s pretty melancholy and who’s in his mid-50s and is alone, drinks too much, is not a hap- Chris Pratt and Dave Bautista in a scene from py person,” Evans said of the “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” character in a Masterpiece FINAL-1 Sat, Aug 12, 2017 5:08:01 PM August 19 - 25, 2017 • Newburyport Daily News • 3 10:00 p.m. WBZ (4) Patriots Fifth Monday BASKETBALL Live HORSE RACING Friday 1:00 p.m. ESPN (49) Baseball Little Quarter 7:00 p.m. ESPN (49) Soccer MLS New League World Series Elimination Live Sunday Saturday York City FC at New York Red Bulls Live GOLF 3:00 p.m.