
Lucy Liu joins US Sherlock Holmes show ‘Elementary’
Charlie’s Angels actress Lucy Liu has been cast in CBS’s upcoming modern day Sherlock Holmes series, Elementary, playing a female Watson.
Charlie’s Angels actress Lucy Liu has been cast in CBS’s upcoming modern day Sherlock Holmes series, Elementary, playing a female Watson.
‘You’re one of the conspiracy lot, aren’t you?’
Combining Sherlock and Doctor Who isn’t all that difficult, a cynic might say; Steven Moffat has already done it by having basically the same conclusions to Series 2 of the former and Series 6 of the latter.
But we’re not cynical, so we don’t believe that at all – and it’s our wide-eyed lack of cynicism which probably explains why we love the heartfelt, fannish devotion which has gone into the making of this Wholock trailer for ‘The Fall’….
‘I cannot tell you why my ship withstood the power of that gun unless you tell me the principles it was built on.’
How much time Babelcolour spends adding colour, frame by frame, to 1960s episodes of Doctor Who, we don’t even want to think about. All we want is for him to keep doing it, because the examples in this portfolio of clips are spellbinding.
Seeing William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and the gang transported from monochrome mediocrity to glorious Technicolor isn’t a rarity on YouTube, but seeing it done this well certainly is.
‘The hobbits, the hobbits, the hobbits, the hobbits …’
At one time, this was – in a deliberately cheap and tacky way – the funniest thing the internet ever invented. If, by some miracle, you haven’t seen it yet, then approach with caution. You will never be able to watch The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in the same way again.
‘Wall-E…?’
The trailer for Prometheus – Ridley Scott’s Alien-prequel-that-isn’t-actually-an-Alien-prequel-but-it’s-set-in-the-same-universe-and-yeah-it’s-about-the-creatures-that-left-the-big-ship-in-Alien-but-there’s-no-Ripley-stop-asking-me-about-Alien-for-God’s-sake – is one of the most intriguing of the teasers for this year’s movie blockbusters.
How can it be improved? By adding a much-loved cartoon figure, of course. It’s like eating ham and custard creams at the same time: it shouldn’t work but it does.
‘Oh my God, I don’t think I can go on. This is so emotional that I’m getting a stalk-on.’
At the tail-end of the 1990s, Tom Baker was trying to record the voiceover for a radio commercial for a furniture company. Struggling against a dismal script about ‘the passion of retail’ the former Doctor Who star begins to ramble, swear and be generally about a million times more entertaining than the advert could ever have hoped to be.
» ‘You’re a beautiful woman… probably.’ Every Doctor Who story from An Unearthly Child in 1963 to last Christmas’s The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe, crammed into ten minutes of Eurythmics-remix-soundtracked glory by the legendary BabelColour…
» ‘Oh, how I’ve missed you, Holmes…’ The trailer for Sherlock Holmes: Book of Shadows re-cut to feature Basil, the Great Mouse Detective and his loyal sidekick, Dawson…
» ‘Your momma’s going on a date…’ When Darth Vader had a nervous breakdown, Akjak was there to capture the full, hilarious extent of his mental collapse…
» ‘What in the name of…?’ Anything involving Nyan Cat is like digital nicotine to us, but how did Captain Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise respond to the rainbow-crapping pop tart kitty that pretty much owned the internet in 2011?
» ‘Holy f@#*! What’s that?’ Doctor Who’s tenth anniversary story in 1973 had to be edited for transmission because it was simply too sweary for the kids – or it did if you believe TheTerryThomas…
The soundtrack to the second series of BBC One’s Sherlock is available to buy from Monday 27th February.
Unashamedly for grown-ups, the 2011 espionage thriller is a stylish and intelligent account of John le Carré’s novel.
There’s been a lot of talk about how rare it is now nowadays to have television that’s genuinely ‘shared’ by the nation. Sherlock is absolutely at the forefront of changing that opinion.
Following the dramatic conclusion of Sherlock‘s second series in The Reichenbach Fall, we asked you to vote for your favourite episode of the show from both series.
After a week of fevered conjecture about how Sherlock miraculously survived his apparently fatal fall from the roof of Barts Hospital, Steven Moffat has said: ‘There is a clue everybody’s missed.’
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson, Series 2 of Sherlock sees the duo face the ultimate test in three of their most famous cases; the Woman, the Hound and the Hall. > Read our Top 10 moments of Series 2. Series 2 is released on DVD and Blu-ray … >
Sherlock could strangle a tune out of the violin, but what would the updated detective make of composers David Arnold and Michael Price’s soundtrack to his adventures?