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I know that IMDb has the show listed as Lewis, but my PBS program guide and the Mystery!/Masterpiece Theater website entitled the show Inspector Lewis and the credits that began the show also used this full title. A cursory check of ITV's website didn't turn up any definitive information. I am just noting this in case any other Wikipedian's think that it might be a good idea to change the name of this page. MarnetteD | Talk 22:01, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
I believe a new series of 4 episodes is due to start 24th February 2008. Bigfatspider ( talk) 12:25, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Does any other wikipedians think we should make an episode list article for lewis,[not individual articles, like the Willieboyisaloser incident on Talk:Midsomer Murders]? Perhaps not until the end of the next series, where we wouldhave more material for such an article? ( JakubMan ( talk) 18:04, 11 March 2008 (UTC))
I've just had a brainwave. Would it be possible to create a portal for Inspector Morse and Lewis? Or am i being an over zealous wiki newbie? ( JakubMan ( talk) 18:10, 11 March 2008 (UTC))
Is there a point in have the episode list with ratings when there is a link to a page with the list, synopsis, and ratings?
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Try as I might, I cannot find anything on the web that suggests a third series is imminent - can anyone cite this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.100.218.3 ( talk) 19:06, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
i read somewhere that lewis has been axed. is this true? ( Aurumpotestasest ( talk) 08:03, 19 April 2009 (UTC))
Will note that the last episode of Series 3 contained a 'blatant improbability' as a plot device (a piece of dangerous equipment without adequate safety equipment/enclosure) which breaks the willing suspension of disbelief/implausibility "rules." Jackiespeel ( talk) 18:31, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
They've been filming in my lab today, so no... it's certainly not been cancelled. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.220.87.63 ( talk) 19:11, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
At the moment I am watching the pilot of Lewis for the first time - unlike Morse I can manage to do two things at the same time. I had kept away from it as I dislike spin-off" series in general (and Oxford and murder without Morse? Surely an oxymoron) but, as Lewis' deceased wife might say; "It ain't that bad". So, I wonder over here to gain a little further information but notice that there is - unlike many other WIKI entries on Tv shows - no "reception" section. Any one up for the job? The7thdr ( talk) 01:30, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
The two IMDB links at the bottom are backward vis-a-vis which links to the miniseries and which to the ongoing series. But I don't understand the template for imdb links well enough to fix it. When I try the links just break. May look in later. User:WickerGuy signed is as -- 75.36.142.89 ( talk) 23:17, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
Why is there no mention of the gay rights episode? Its the same episode where it is revealed (more or less) that the James Hathaway character is gay. -- RyanTee82 ( talk) 06:22, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Correction: James Hathaway was studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood, not Church of England. This was very clear in his condemnation of Will McEwan's homosexuality in "Life Born of Fire." In "The Great and the Good," he also made a reference to the attitudes "we Catholics" hold regarding suicide. While we are meant to think Hathaway has gay tendencies (the interchange with Lewis in the car about "Loaded" magazine and Yorkie bars is a great example), the scene at the end with Zoe Kenneth would seem to discredit this notion. Ehpk5147 ( talk) 14:38, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
I'd be careful about saying anything is "definitive." As I recall, the MAIN point of Hathaway's car scene with Lewis in "Life Born of Fire" was that human sexuality cannot be summed up into a black-and-white, either-or choice - something which Kinsey concluded back in 1948. It seemed to me that if anything, the scene seemed to be setting up the idea that Hathaway was bisexual. This would be completely consistent with his involvement with women mentioned above. The last scene of "Life Born of Fire" could then be viewed in two different ways:
1) Hathaway confirming that he is heterosexual, which seems at odds with what he says in the earlier scene 2) Hathaway deciding to lie to Lewis and pass as heterosexual because, after all, it's really none of Lewis' business anyway
Remember this is series two, and the two aren't yet nearly as close as they will become later in the series. GodaiNoBaka ( talk) 11:19, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
As living at the east side of Øresund (ex-danish County of Skåne, occupied by Sweden since 1658) just about 15 UK miles from Copenhagen I have the benefit of watching 10 danish and 14 swedish channels. I've seen all episodes broadcasted in both countries and they are very popular. I think the 8 first episodes been broadcasted (with underlining, not language dubbing) in both countries. In Denmark they have bben shown twice in the biggest channel DR1. Scandinavians love ´"Brittcrime" and Lewis is at top ranking at the moment. But "Prime Suspect" (Tennison) is right now rebroadcasted in a commercial swedish channel for the third time. I've also seen the before unknown "Between the Lines" from the 90s - althow short episodes they follow a clear line - in the wrong direction , much dued to the mysterios Deakin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Awayanoder ( talk • contribs) 13:29, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Anyone noticed the obvious similarities between this episode and the Midsomer Murders episode "The Axeman Cometh?" Same personel, same settings, same story-plot, - but different murders and different solution in the end. So far I was not able to find anything about this. 125.162.47.86 ( talk) 01:31, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
For reasons that have yet to be explained, "Counter Culture Blues" was never shown as part of Series 3 in the U.S. It is now scheduled to be aired (premiered) at the end of August 2010 after the rebroadcast ("encores") of the other three episodes in that series--so it must now be considered part of Series 4 for us. I have all 11 episodes from Series 1 - 3 on DVD and I watch them so often they just might wear out!~ ~ ~ ~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ehpk5147 ( talk • contribs) 22:53, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
There's a similar thing going on at Midsomer Murders. 16 episodes have aired so far, and there will undoubtedly be more. It'd be a good use of that series information at the bottom of the article. Message me if you have any questions about creating a Lewis episode list. ( Aurumpotestasest ( talk) 18:35, 6 June 2010 (UTC))
My incessant internet surfing has paid off: the British press have announced that [Inspector] Lewis has been renewed for a fifth season. Filming is underway now (July 2010) and our British cousins will, of course, get to see the episodes well before we do in 2011--it will probably be a six-month lag at best before we get them. Aargh! I also learned that each episode we see on Masterpiece Theater has been clipped (albeit discreetly) to fit the 90-minute time slot they are accorded. I will always wonder what bits of dialogue I have missed each time! As for an episode list: I have all the info, including the five new episodes for Series Four that we will finally get to see in September (including one that was supposed to be part of Series Three and was never released here: "Counter Culture Blues"). BTW: if you go to Amazon.co.uk, and search for the Lewis DVDs, you can find video clips from Series Four, just to whet your appetites. Sergeant Hathaway sports a rather new hairstyle--longer. More akin to his natural inclinations, I daresay. Ehpk5147 ( talk) 00:12, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Right now the Finnish television has broadcasted two episodes of series four. It's interesting to notice that episode one featured Nathaniel Parker (aka Inspector Lynley) and in episode two one of major characters was played by Warren Clarke (aka Dalziel). Who will be the next visiting ex-inspector? Frost? Wycliffe? – Harjasusi ( talk) 20:56, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Is "Lewis" really a TV-series that can be concidered to be "spinn-off". I thought "spinn-off series" is a currently (in the sence of "not finished") TV-series spinn-off into a new one. An example from the 80's some may remember the US comedy Soap. One of this series poular characters was a butler named Benson, and after some years this became a new series. In the case of "Lewis" circumstances were different. "Chief Inspector Morse" was ended by the 33:rd episode "The Remorseful Day" in 2000, with the death of the DCI. Then John Thaw himself sadly dies only two years later. "Lewis" didn't "spinn-off" from "Chief Inspector Morse" - it rather was a continuence of "Chief Inspector Morse". I don't want to spit hairs, but the example shows that if "Lewis" really is as "spinn off" - then the word "spin-off" has more than one significance (or meaning). My humble suggestion is that "Lewis continued" some time after "Chief Inspector Morse" was at it's end. However I'm not an expert of the term "spinn-off". I only raise the question. /The Øresund - man who isn't a member. (Not permanent) IP 83.249.39.104 ( talk) 09:19, 19 November 2011 (UTC) Thanks Ladies an Gentlemen.
As an American, I first saw "Inspector Lewis" on PBS/Masterpiece Mystery. I have since also seen the ITV-aired "Lewis" versions and it is very clearly credited with a graphic as "a co-production of Granada and WGBH Boston" [6] and [7]. Granada having since become ITV Studios and WGBH Boston is a PBS station and the company behind Masterpiece, Mystery! and Masterpiece Mystery (for which it was created). There is even a specific producer credited from WGBH.
However, this article appears to be very British-centric -- almost arrogantly so. It is filmed in Britain, with mainly British actors, and it is frequent that a "British" show is produced (jointly) by Masterpiece airs first in the UK. But that alone does not decide its production ownership, target market, or intended audience. (Similar Masterpiece co-produced UK shows include Inspector Morse after '96, Sherlock, Poirot, Wallander, and many others.) I do not believe the US "version" should be referred to as edits/rebroadcasts if they are, in fact, produced with that audience in mind. For instance, the co-producers probably don't think of the US market as "Other Countries" as in this article and it was not "produced for ITV."
The title is different in the US -- which probably has more to do with trying to associate with Inspector Morse (which was not commonly referred to as Morse in the US as it was in the UK) rather than just a bastardization. Since the US was an initially intended market at the time of production, the US title, episode groupings (which are called SEASONS, not series, here), etc. should probably not simply be a footnote oddity of a distributor. I could only imagine the reaction of the British readers if the series was represented in the tone of the other co-producer, WGBH with an American spin on it. Granted that may be even more inappropriate, but this problem of two producers for two separate audiences exists in most of the other wiki articles for the shows I mentioned. Maybe there's a better way to handle it...
This article has been this way for some time, but with new episodes airing currently in the UK and the Masterpiece broadcast to come in the upcoming months there will be an influx of new readers of the topic. SeattleSoxFan ( talk) 08:50, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Lewis was not above making satirical comment on Colleges..Refereeing to Cambridge as a home for spys {i.e. Anthony Blount and Oxford as a home for traitors [What traitors did he mean?] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.5.89.217 ( talk) 17:33, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
The last sentence of the lead-in says that an ITV spokesperson claims that the show may return to TV in 2014. But, the article used as a source says Whately has taken a break for filming and may return to film a new series or special in 2014. I would think that, depending on whether it's a new series or one-off that gets filmed, and depending on when in 2014 it gets filmed, there is a chance that the show would not return to TV until 2015. I don't know enough about British television production to say this with certainty, so I didn't change the sentence. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.252.199.112 ( talk) 15:39, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
The recent edits by an editor from Hong Kong are trying to insert all manner of WP:OR and WP:SYNTH about their interpretation of events shown in this programme. This stuff is better suited to a blog or chat room. Pouring through it I can't really find anything that belongs in an encyclopedic article. If anyone else can that is fine. Until now the editor has not been willing to communicate about this and has chosen to edit war instead. Perhaps they will try and explain things now but the edit should not be put back in the article until then. MarnetteD| Talk 12:17, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
The main article runtimes seem at least somewhat wrong-ish. See episode list talk page.- 71.174.179.203 ( talk) 17:04, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
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I know that IMDb has the show listed as Lewis, but my PBS program guide and the Mystery!/Masterpiece Theater website entitled the show Inspector Lewis and the credits that began the show also used this full title. A cursory check of ITV's website didn't turn up any definitive information. I am just noting this in case any other Wikipedian's think that it might be a good idea to change the name of this page. MarnetteD | Talk 22:01, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
I believe a new series of 4 episodes is due to start 24th February 2008. Bigfatspider ( talk) 12:25, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Does any other wikipedians think we should make an episode list article for lewis,[not individual articles, like the Willieboyisaloser incident on Talk:Midsomer Murders]? Perhaps not until the end of the next series, where we wouldhave more material for such an article? ( JakubMan ( talk) 18:04, 11 March 2008 (UTC))
I've just had a brainwave. Would it be possible to create a portal for Inspector Morse and Lewis? Or am i being an over zealous wiki newbie? ( JakubMan ( talk) 18:10, 11 March 2008 (UTC))
Is there a point in have the episode list with ratings when there is a link to a page with the list, synopsis, and ratings?
75.177.36.154 (
talk)
08:09, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Try as I might, I cannot find anything on the web that suggests a third series is imminent - can anyone cite this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.100.218.3 ( talk) 19:06, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
i read somewhere that lewis has been axed. is this true? ( Aurumpotestasest ( talk) 08:03, 19 April 2009 (UTC))
Will note that the last episode of Series 3 contained a 'blatant improbability' as a plot device (a piece of dangerous equipment without adequate safety equipment/enclosure) which breaks the willing suspension of disbelief/implausibility "rules." Jackiespeel ( talk) 18:31, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
They've been filming in my lab today, so no... it's certainly not been cancelled. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.220.87.63 ( talk) 19:11, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
At the moment I am watching the pilot of Lewis for the first time - unlike Morse I can manage to do two things at the same time. I had kept away from it as I dislike spin-off" series in general (and Oxford and murder without Morse? Surely an oxymoron) but, as Lewis' deceased wife might say; "It ain't that bad". So, I wonder over here to gain a little further information but notice that there is - unlike many other WIKI entries on Tv shows - no "reception" section. Any one up for the job? The7thdr ( talk) 01:30, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
The two IMDB links at the bottom are backward vis-a-vis which links to the miniseries and which to the ongoing series. But I don't understand the template for imdb links well enough to fix it. When I try the links just break. May look in later. User:WickerGuy signed is as -- 75.36.142.89 ( talk) 23:17, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
Why is there no mention of the gay rights episode? Its the same episode where it is revealed (more or less) that the James Hathaway character is gay. -- RyanTee82 ( talk) 06:22, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Correction: James Hathaway was studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood, not Church of England. This was very clear in his condemnation of Will McEwan's homosexuality in "Life Born of Fire." In "The Great and the Good," he also made a reference to the attitudes "we Catholics" hold regarding suicide. While we are meant to think Hathaway has gay tendencies (the interchange with Lewis in the car about "Loaded" magazine and Yorkie bars is a great example), the scene at the end with Zoe Kenneth would seem to discredit this notion. Ehpk5147 ( talk) 14:38, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
I'd be careful about saying anything is "definitive." As I recall, the MAIN point of Hathaway's car scene with Lewis in "Life Born of Fire" was that human sexuality cannot be summed up into a black-and-white, either-or choice - something which Kinsey concluded back in 1948. It seemed to me that if anything, the scene seemed to be setting up the idea that Hathaway was bisexual. This would be completely consistent with his involvement with women mentioned above. The last scene of "Life Born of Fire" could then be viewed in two different ways:
1) Hathaway confirming that he is heterosexual, which seems at odds with what he says in the earlier scene 2) Hathaway deciding to lie to Lewis and pass as heterosexual because, after all, it's really none of Lewis' business anyway
Remember this is series two, and the two aren't yet nearly as close as they will become later in the series. GodaiNoBaka ( talk) 11:19, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
As living at the east side of Øresund (ex-danish County of Skåne, occupied by Sweden since 1658) just about 15 UK miles from Copenhagen I have the benefit of watching 10 danish and 14 swedish channels. I've seen all episodes broadcasted in both countries and they are very popular. I think the 8 first episodes been broadcasted (with underlining, not language dubbing) in both countries. In Denmark they have bben shown twice in the biggest channel DR1. Scandinavians love ´"Brittcrime" and Lewis is at top ranking at the moment. But "Prime Suspect" (Tennison) is right now rebroadcasted in a commercial swedish channel for the third time. I've also seen the before unknown "Between the Lines" from the 90s - althow short episodes they follow a clear line - in the wrong direction , much dued to the mysterios Deakin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Awayanoder ( talk • contribs) 13:29, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Anyone noticed the obvious similarities between this episode and the Midsomer Murders episode "The Axeman Cometh?" Same personel, same settings, same story-plot, - but different murders and different solution in the end. So far I was not able to find anything about this. 125.162.47.86 ( talk) 01:31, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
For reasons that have yet to be explained, "Counter Culture Blues" was never shown as part of Series 3 in the U.S. It is now scheduled to be aired (premiered) at the end of August 2010 after the rebroadcast ("encores") of the other three episodes in that series--so it must now be considered part of Series 4 for us. I have all 11 episodes from Series 1 - 3 on DVD and I watch them so often they just might wear out!~ ~ ~ ~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ehpk5147 ( talk • contribs) 22:53, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
There's a similar thing going on at Midsomer Murders. 16 episodes have aired so far, and there will undoubtedly be more. It'd be a good use of that series information at the bottom of the article. Message me if you have any questions about creating a Lewis episode list. ( Aurumpotestasest ( talk) 18:35, 6 June 2010 (UTC))
My incessant internet surfing has paid off: the British press have announced that [Inspector] Lewis has been renewed for a fifth season. Filming is underway now (July 2010) and our British cousins will, of course, get to see the episodes well before we do in 2011--it will probably be a six-month lag at best before we get them. Aargh! I also learned that each episode we see on Masterpiece Theater has been clipped (albeit discreetly) to fit the 90-minute time slot they are accorded. I will always wonder what bits of dialogue I have missed each time! As for an episode list: I have all the info, including the five new episodes for Series Four that we will finally get to see in September (including one that was supposed to be part of Series Three and was never released here: "Counter Culture Blues"). BTW: if you go to Amazon.co.uk, and search for the Lewis DVDs, you can find video clips from Series Four, just to whet your appetites. Sergeant Hathaway sports a rather new hairstyle--longer. More akin to his natural inclinations, I daresay. Ehpk5147 ( talk) 00:12, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Right now the Finnish television has broadcasted two episodes of series four. It's interesting to notice that episode one featured Nathaniel Parker (aka Inspector Lynley) and in episode two one of major characters was played by Warren Clarke (aka Dalziel). Who will be the next visiting ex-inspector? Frost? Wycliffe? – Harjasusi ( talk) 20:56, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Is "Lewis" really a TV-series that can be concidered to be "spinn-off". I thought "spinn-off series" is a currently (in the sence of "not finished") TV-series spinn-off into a new one. An example from the 80's some may remember the US comedy Soap. One of this series poular characters was a butler named Benson, and after some years this became a new series. In the case of "Lewis" circumstances were different. "Chief Inspector Morse" was ended by the 33:rd episode "The Remorseful Day" in 2000, with the death of the DCI. Then John Thaw himself sadly dies only two years later. "Lewis" didn't "spinn-off" from "Chief Inspector Morse" - it rather was a continuence of "Chief Inspector Morse". I don't want to spit hairs, but the example shows that if "Lewis" really is as "spinn off" - then the word "spin-off" has more than one significance (or meaning). My humble suggestion is that "Lewis continued" some time after "Chief Inspector Morse" was at it's end. However I'm not an expert of the term "spinn-off". I only raise the question. /The Øresund - man who isn't a member. (Not permanent) IP 83.249.39.104 ( talk) 09:19, 19 November 2011 (UTC) Thanks Ladies an Gentlemen.
As an American, I first saw "Inspector Lewis" on PBS/Masterpiece Mystery. I have since also seen the ITV-aired "Lewis" versions and it is very clearly credited with a graphic as "a co-production of Granada and WGBH Boston" [6] and [7]. Granada having since become ITV Studios and WGBH Boston is a PBS station and the company behind Masterpiece, Mystery! and Masterpiece Mystery (for which it was created). There is even a specific producer credited from WGBH.
However, this article appears to be very British-centric -- almost arrogantly so. It is filmed in Britain, with mainly British actors, and it is frequent that a "British" show is produced (jointly) by Masterpiece airs first in the UK. But that alone does not decide its production ownership, target market, or intended audience. (Similar Masterpiece co-produced UK shows include Inspector Morse after '96, Sherlock, Poirot, Wallander, and many others.) I do not believe the US "version" should be referred to as edits/rebroadcasts if they are, in fact, produced with that audience in mind. For instance, the co-producers probably don't think of the US market as "Other Countries" as in this article and it was not "produced for ITV."
The title is different in the US -- which probably has more to do with trying to associate with Inspector Morse (which was not commonly referred to as Morse in the US as it was in the UK) rather than just a bastardization. Since the US was an initially intended market at the time of production, the US title, episode groupings (which are called SEASONS, not series, here), etc. should probably not simply be a footnote oddity of a distributor. I could only imagine the reaction of the British readers if the series was represented in the tone of the other co-producer, WGBH with an American spin on it. Granted that may be even more inappropriate, but this problem of two producers for two separate audiences exists in most of the other wiki articles for the shows I mentioned. Maybe there's a better way to handle it...
This article has been this way for some time, but with new episodes airing currently in the UK and the Masterpiece broadcast to come in the upcoming months there will be an influx of new readers of the topic. SeattleSoxFan ( talk) 08:50, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Lewis was not above making satirical comment on Colleges..Refereeing to Cambridge as a home for spys {i.e. Anthony Blount and Oxford as a home for traitors [What traitors did he mean?] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.5.89.217 ( talk) 17:33, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
The last sentence of the lead-in says that an ITV spokesperson claims that the show may return to TV in 2014. But, the article used as a source says Whately has taken a break for filming and may return to film a new series or special in 2014. I would think that, depending on whether it's a new series or one-off that gets filmed, and depending on when in 2014 it gets filmed, there is a chance that the show would not return to TV until 2015. I don't know enough about British television production to say this with certainty, so I didn't change the sentence. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.252.199.112 ( talk) 15:39, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
The recent edits by an editor from Hong Kong are trying to insert all manner of WP:OR and WP:SYNTH about their interpretation of events shown in this programme. This stuff is better suited to a blog or chat room. Pouring through it I can't really find anything that belongs in an encyclopedic article. If anyone else can that is fine. Until now the editor has not been willing to communicate about this and has chosen to edit war instead. Perhaps they will try and explain things now but the edit should not be put back in the article until then. MarnetteD| Talk 12:17, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
The main article runtimes seem at least somewhat wrong-ish. See episode list talk page.- 71.174.179.203 ( talk) 17:04, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
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