‘Sherlock’: ‘The Hounds of Baskerville’ review
We were more worried about this story being updated than any other, but our fears were entirely groundless.
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We were more worried about this story being updated than any other, but our fears were entirely groundless.
ITV1’s Eternal Law is a new legal drama with a twist – its two lawyer protagonists are no mere law-school graduates but angels sent to earth to help humanity.
Don’t Believe The Hype, Public Enemy warned us in 1988, and this new, three-part drama from Tony Marchant arrives with high expectations that it struggles to live up to.
Good news everybody, the Guinness World Record holding Futurama (current Most Critically Acclaimed Animated Series, in case you’re wondering) is back on DVD!
The tired old dog of adaptations, The Hound of the Baskervilles has always been a bafflingly popular choice when it comes to pasting Sherlock onto the screen.
With the wild success of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise still rolling onwards to the horizon, it’s a surprise that it’s taken this long for a big-budget revisiting of this tale.
Although physically Shaun Evans doesn’t immediately bring to mind the late John Thaw, there’s something in his demeanour that expertly captures the essence of the character Thaw made his own.
Writers and producers must be cursing Steven Moffat right now. It’s only day one of 2012, and already Sherlock looks like being the highlight of the TV year.
Like the Queen’s Speech and a miserable Christmas in Walford, high quality period dramas are fixed points on our TV screens at Christmas.
Billed as a fantasy horror series, The Fades is in fact a high concept, genre-hopping show that defies such a simple classification.