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.
The first show to air as part of BBC Three’s 2010 pilot season (the last of which in 2008 gave us Being Human), Pulse arrives with a style and content that would frankly be better suited to the long dark evenings of winter than the bright and warm evenings of the summer months.
This, arguably, is what started it all – from the creative mind of Gerry Anderson, Fireball XL5 was the first marionette sci-fi television show.
The star of CBBC’s The Sarah Jane Adventures, Elisabeth Sladen first played Doctor Who companion Sarah Jane in 1973 and returned to the show this year in the Series 4 finale episodes.
Elisabeth Sladen returned to Doctor Who last year as Sarah Jane Smith and can now be seen on CBBC in The Sarah Jane Adventures.