CultBox recently asked you to tell us who you think is British TV’s best detective of the 21st century so far (character incarnations which first appeared after 2000).
The Stuff of Nightmares starts with a bang. Quite literally. The latest in a spate of bombings to hit London narrowly misses Doctor Watson and throws the reader like a rag doll into James Lovegrove’s adventure.
Sherlock exec Sue Vertue has announced the casting of Series 3’s new adversary for Sherlock Holmes.
If last week’s Series 7 opener seemed a little slow to Skins fans, it certainly picked up the pace in the second part of Effy’s two-parter, Skins Fire. Right from the off we see a strangely relaxed Effy; the most human, flawed, approachable we’ve ever seen her, so we know something’s going to go horribly wrong.
The episode title for the finale of Sherlock‘s upcoming third series will be cryptically revealed during BBC One’s repeats of Series 2.
The UK’s recent hankering for a down-to-earth but idiosyncratic television detective is rooted deeply in our love for Scandinavian mystery dramas, or ‘Nordic noir’ as it is now dubbed. Some of these sleuths have been on our tellies far longer than others but each are all quintessentially British from the tea-sipping Miss Marple to the heavily patriotic Christopher Foyle.
The cast has been announced for The Politician’s Husband writer Paula Milne’s new Cold War thriller Legacy.
The third series of Sherlock will not be shown in the US until next year.