Ahead of Sherlock‘s return this autumn with a second series of three new feature-length episodes, the hit first series begins a repeat run this week. Here we examine how the show breathed new life into the Great Detective and the crowded TV crime genre.
As the Doctor Who behemoth continues to roll on, so the spin-offs keep coming. Here we have K9, featuring the Time Lord’s sometime robot pet.
So, Sherlock Holmes is alive and well, working in the 21st century, helping out the police with their enquires, equipped with mobile phones, computers and Google Maps. No, wait, come back: it’s better than that – much better. Traditionally, when there’s been this sort of twist on the Most Famous Detective In The World™, it’s … >
Hot off the success of the newly re-launched Doctor Who, Steven Moffat talks with co-creator Mark Gatiss about Sherlock, their new contemporary update of Sherlock Holmes for BBC One.
Martin Freeman (The Office) stars as Dr John Watson in Sherlock, BBC One’s new update of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective, set in present-day London.
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