Category: Sherlock Week

Sherlock Week: 221Beeb

2/18/2014

by Jo Johnstone

Sherlock Holmes is indeed one of the most recognisable characters of the 21st Century. The work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is still being enjoyed today for its characters, its cases and its entertainment. When the BBC announced they were doing an updated version of the great detective set in modern day London, many were skeptical. Yet in the hands of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss the show has proved to be one of the best written and frequently watched things on the box.

But just why does Sherlock work in its modern day setting?

Sherlock Week: Jeremy Brett

2/18/2014

by Helen Langdon

One TV series tried more than any other to mark itself out as the quintessential Holmes adaptation. Airing from 1984 to 1994, the Granada series is definitely the most comprehensive, adapting 42 of the original stories. But it didn’t stop there in its quest for faithfulness; it’s one of the few majorly successful versions to be set in the correct time period, a sanitised vision of the late Victorian era. And on top of that, half of the shot compositions themselves are taken from the Sidney Paget illustrations that accompanied the original stories.

Sherlock Week: Peter Cushing

2/18/2014

by Helen Langdon

Long before Benedict Cumberbatch was a twinkle in anybody’s eye, the BBC was making a Sherlock Holmes series with a screen star who was no stranger to 221B Baker Street. Buying the rights to adapt at least five stories, the BBC had started their series in 1965. After the original BBC Holmes, Douglas Wilmer, declined to make another series, they went looking for a new Sherlock and eventually found him in Peter Cushing. He’d played Sherlock Holmes in 1959, in the Hammer adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, and was more than keen to play the role again.

Sherlock Week: Sherlock House

2/18/2014

by Helen Langdon

House is perhaps not the first Sherlock Holmes adaptation that springs to mind. After all, it’s not about an English detective fighting crime. But it’s still based on Sherlock Holmes, just an alternate universe version where Holmes is a maverick doctor who solves those (medical) cases no ordinary person can.

Sherlock Week: Elementary, my dear Watson

2/18/2014

by William John

When I first heard about Elementary, CBS' own modern day Sherlock Holmes crime drama, I was, to say the least, rather uninterested. Great, they're jumping on the band wagon and doing their own version... who cares? Then Lucy Liu was cast as JOAN Watson and my disinterest turned to disgust - How dare they cast Watson as a woman?! Despite my best interests, I sat down and watched the pilot whilst in America.

Oh how wrong I was!

Sherlock Week: 221Beeb

Sherlock Week: Jeremy Brett

Sherlock Week: Peter Cushing

Sherlock Week: Sherlock House

Sherlock Week: Elementary, my dear Watson

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