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Lewis
2007 · TV series · 90 min episodes · 9 seasons
Created by Colin Dexter
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
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>To go a bit on a tangent: I love TV shows where it really is shot where it is set, and the location is a big part of the show.
The Inspector Morse series[0] based on Colin Dexter's[1] novels is shot in and around Oxford, UK and is pretty darn good.
The follow-ons (Lewis[2] and Endeavour[3]) are also pretty good too.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries[4] is also pretty good and is shot mostly on location, although the protagonist is something of a whiny little bitch. The same can be said for DCI Banks[5].
That said, Vera[6] and Y Gwyll[7] (Hinterland) are both good too, although the police force in Vera is a fictional fictional organization and is shot in various places in the north of England.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Morse_(TV_series)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Dexter
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_(TV_series)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endeavour_(TV_series)
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inspector_Lynley_Mysteries
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCI_Banks
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_(TV_series)
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterland_(TV_series)
I stand corrected. There was a time when I watched several shows like Morse (ie, Lewis, Frost, Foyle, Gently, Lynley, Marple, Midsomer) and I suppose it became a bit of a blur. It was a lot of long episodes, but not a lot of episodes (per season).
I watched the first few episodes, but for some reason I didn't enjoy it.
I will second the sibling comment though; I really enjoyed watching Lewis.
A few weeks ago I watched the pilot episode of Lewis, a British TV detective/crime drama that is set in the surroundings of Oxford university, UK. One of the characters in the episode was a PhD student in mathematics and the key to the mystery could be found in one of the papers for his PhD dissertation. The detectives found the paper in question on the character's computer and opened it up for the viewers to see. Lo and behold, the paper was clearly typeset in LaTeX. Someone apparently went out of their way to make this little detail look just right!
Maybe its just me, but it seems like movies are getting better and better in getting those tiny but ever so important technical details right.