Television executives have long endeavoured to create "water-cooler" shows which people will talk about at work the next day.
The two-hour-long Endeavour averaged 6.5 million viewers and a 26.9% share from 9pm and was the most popular show in its timeslot, suggesting ITV executives would have a relatively easy decision on whether to commission a follow-up series.
However, this seems a financially challenging and possibly decades-long endeavour.
Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett described the effort earlier on Thursday as the beginning of a life-long endeavour for Mr Obama and his wife Michelle.
"Thanks to a huge international, decades-long endeavour, we have achieved our mission to take a world-class science laboratory to a comet to study its evolution over time, something that no other comet-chasing mission has attempted," said the ESA's director of science, Alvaro Giménez, in the blog post summarizing the mission's conclusion.
I know that everybody's story is different, but I'm under the impression that doing something artistic doesn't have to be a life-long endeavour.
Also of note in the field of literary criticism was the death of renowned Brazilian critic Wilson Martins, whose half-century-long endeavours as a professor of Brazilian and French literatures both in Brazil and in the United States and as a syndicated columnist writing on contemporary Brazilian literature were truly remarkable.
The committee says a strategic plan and a five-year road map to support delivery of the initiative's goals should be published, adding that the government must heed its own evidence that combating sexual violence is a long-term endeavour, requiring long-term funding.
This means that progress in human rights and other areas will be a long-term endeavour".
Building this capacity to prevent future health emergencies is a long-term endeavour that becomes more critical with each epidemic in the region.
The first is national and international will: do we have the staying power and strategic patience to see through such a long-term endeavour in the face of the short-term vagaries of tactical fortune?
