Because PBS combined the second and third UK series into one season, the final season of Inspector Lewis will, on PBS, be referred to as season eight. In the US, the series, which airs on PBS under the Masterpiece! banner, is titled Inspector Lewis (and its predecessor: Inspector Morse). Lewis will conclude its UK run on November 10. ITV will air part one of the two-part series finale, “What Lies Tangled,” today, November 3, 2015. Reportedly, Whately and Lewis co-star Laurence Fox, who plays Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, have decided to retire from their roles, after 33 episodes, so as not to outdo Thaw’s Morse, which also ran for 33 episodes. Kevin Whately was first cast as Robbie Lewis opposite the late John Thaw’s Morse, on the forerunning British drama of the same name. But according to the ITV spokeswoman Kate Bain, Lewis may still return to television in 2014, either as another series or as a one-off.Lewis, ITV’s long-running Morse spin-off, is effectively cancelled after UK series nine. In May 2012, after the show was renewed for a seventh series, Fox told The Daily Telegraph it would be its last, as both he and Whately wished to move on to other things. PBS broadcast the series, as Inspector Lewis, in the United States and Canada, as part of its Masterpiece Mystery series. The final, seventh series, was broadcast from 7 January to 11 February 2013, and consisted of three two-part stories. A fourth series was broadcast throughout the UK from, a fifth series from 3 April 2011, and a sixth series from, each again of four episodes. A third series of four episodes was broadcast on ITV from March to April 2009, but this was not shown in Scotland. A second series of four episodes was broadcast in early 2008. Following the broadcast of a pilot in 2006, a first series of three episodes was broadcast in February and March 2007. Lewis had now been promoted to detective inspector and was assisted by DS James Hathaway, portrayed by Laurence Fox. Kevin Whately reprised his character Robert "Robbie" Lewis, who had been Morse's sergeant in the original series. Like that series, it was set primarily in Oxford, England. Lewis is a British television detective drama made as a spin-off from Inspector Morse.
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