įollowing the broadcast of a pilot in 2006, the show's first series was commissioned by ITV, consisting of three episodes that were broadcast between February and March 2007. The music for the series was composed by Barrington Pheloung, who created the music for the original Inspector Morse series. The episode scripts follow Dexter's approach, but each of them is credited to one of several other writers including, most frequently, Russell Lewis, Alan Plater, and Stephen Churchett. He soon clashes with Lewis over the latter's more traditional approach to detective work.Ĭolin Dexter, the author of the Inspector Morse novels, makes a very brief cameo appearance in several episodes, including one as a porter at Wadham College.
He often shows an uncanny intuition in solving murder cases. Kevin Whately as Detective Inspector Robert Lewis: Widowed after his wife was killed in a hit-and-run car collision, Inspector Lewis is a workaholic.Whately announced that the show had gone on long enough, with his character having done many stories between Morse and Lewis after he took on the role 30 years earlier. On 2 November 2015, ITV announced that the show would end after its ninth series, following the decision made by Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox to retire from their roles in the series. Laura Hobson, likewise reprising her role from Inspector Morse and from the seventh season, Angela Griffin as DS Lizzie Maddox. The series also stars Clare Holman as forensic pathologist Dr. Lewis has now been promoted to detective inspector and is assisted by DS James Hathaway, portrayed by Laurence Fox, who was promoted to inspector before the seventh series. Kevin Whately reprises his character Robert "Robbie" Lewis, who was Morse's sergeant in the original series. It is a spin-off from Inspector Morse and, like that series, it is set in Oxford. Lewis is a British television detective drama produced for ITV, first airing in 2006 ( pilot) then 2007 (series 1).