{"id":5472,"date":"2010-08-28T05:10:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T11:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2010-08-28T05:10:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T11:10:25","slug":"inspectorlewis-counter-culture-blues-pbs-new-masterpiece-mystery-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/inspectorlewis-counter-culture-blues-pbs-new-masterpiece-mystery-season-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspector Lewis : Counter Culture Blues &#8211; PBS NEW Masterpiece Mystery! (Season 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Masterpiece Mystery!<\/strong> will start airing <strong>Season 3 of Inspector Lewis<\/strong> &#8211; beginning this Sunday (tomorrow) night on your local PBS station. For those of you who aren&#8217;t familiar with Inspector Lewis, he used to be Inspector Morse&#8217;s side-kick. The Inspector Lewis 90-minute episodes are inspired by Colin Dexter&#8217;s Inspector Morse mystery books.\u00a0<strong>Counter Culture Blues<\/strong> is a 2008 ITV production. (This is its first airing in the USA.)<\/p>\n<p>With the passing of John Thaw (Inspector Morse), we would have understood if the production of these wonderful\u00a0television movie episodes had stopped. I am so glad ITV decided to continue making these really good episodes\u00a0based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/Colin-Dexter.html\"><strong>Colin Dexter<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s Inspector Morse mystery books.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead of having Inspector Morse at the helm of the investigations, Morse&#8217;s sergeant has been promoted, and given a side-kick of his own. <strong>Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox are very convincing as Inspector Lewis and Detective Sergeant Hathaway.<\/strong> Lewis is a working-class bloke while Hathaway is a Cambridge graduate, and very\u00a0much like Lewis&#8217;s previous partner, Inspector Morse.<\/p>\n<p>This particular episode boasts the truly versatile <strong>Joanna Lumley<\/strong>. Lumley has such a diverse repertoire &gt;&gt;&gt; She was terrific as one of Roald Dahl&#8217;s terrible aunts in<em> James and the Giant Peach<\/em>, fabulous as the aging drug and alcohol laden hippie in <em>Absolutely Fabulous<\/em>, and touchingly desperate in <em>A Rather English Marriage<\/em>. All in all, I cannot wait to see what she does portraying a dead rock star who, perhaps\u00a0wasn&#8217;t that dead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masterpiece Mystery! will start airing Season 3 of Inspector Lewis &#8211; beginning this Sunday (tomorrow) night on your local PBS station. For those of you who aren&#8217;t familiar with Inspector Lewis, he used to be Inspector Morse&#8217;s side-kick. The Inspector Lewis 90-minute episodes are inspired by Colin Dexter&#8217;s Inspector Morse mystery books.\u00a0Counter Culture Blues is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,18,19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-british-moviestv-shows","7":"category-movies","8":"category-moviestv-shows","9":"category-tv","10":"entry","11":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-1qg","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}