1.) Colin Dexter’s famous creation, Inspector Endeavour Morse, is due to fill our screens once more. ITV has announced that a new Morse film will be on the box next year. However, it comes with a twist. The film will be set in 1965 and feature a younger version of Morse, who will be played by Shaun Evans. The airing is set to coincide with the twenty-fifty anniversary of the first ever screening of Dexter’s famous sleuth, back in 1987. Evans has said that he is ‘very excited’ about the role and that he hopes the new outing ‘can complement what’s come before, by telling a great story, and telling it well.’ Dexter meanwhile, in a typically artful piece of verbal play, said: ‘Immortal was Endeavour Morse – End-eavour more shall be so!’
2.) Dexter studied Classics at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1950-53).
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