AB:I’ve been fortunate enough to have read the Sherlock Holmes when I was very young. I had kind of a sickly childhood, and I had an uncle who brought me old English boys annuals like Chums and Boys Own Annual. And they were full of serials about the wilds of Canada, the Northwest...
he was playing unpleasant people, he was not playing leading men. Everyone loved the idea of Benedict as Sherlock Holmes because he’s a distinguished, revered actor — he was not a heartthrob at all. And yet somehow, putting that coat and that ...
The BBC season of three Sherlock Holmes films was the summer hit of 2010 in the UK with over 7.5 million viewers watching the first episode. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role and Martin Freeman as Dr. Watson the stories cleverly bring Conan Doyle's famous characters into the wor...
Inevitably given its compressed running time, the pilot is lacking several pieces of groundwork for future episodes – there is no mention of Moriarty and Mycroft is completely absent, which leaves Lestrade to speak the iconic final "Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson" line in his place. On th...