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Sherlock - Not now! I'm in shock. Look, I've got a blanket.
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This guy:
and this guy:
have made a new adaptation of Sherlock Holmes staring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes
and Martin Freeman as Watson
So, this starts tonight at 9pm on BBC1. Anyone else watching?
and this guy:
have made a new adaptation of Sherlock Holmes staring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes
and Martin Freeman as Watson
BBC Press Site wrote:Benedict Cumberbatch (Small Island, Starter For Ten) and Martin Freeman (The Office, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) star in Sherlock, a thrilling, fast-paced update of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective, set in present-day London, for BBC One.
Sherlock is co-created by the hugely talented partnership of Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Coupling) and Mark Gatiss (The League Of Gentlemen, Crooked House, Doctor Who) and produced by Sue Vertue (Coupling, The Cup).
The three, 90-minute films, written by Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Steve Thompson (Whipping It Up, Mutual Friends) are directed by Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin, Gangster No. 1, The Acid House) and Euros Lyn (Doctor Who, Torchwood).
In this unique adaptation, the iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain. They live at the same address, are only interested in the bizarre and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them.
Sherlock also stars Rupert Graves (God On Trial, Midnight Man) as Detective Inspector Lestrade, Scotland Yard's finest, largely because Sherlock allows him to take credit for his deductions, and Una Stubbs (EastEnders, The Catherine Tate Show) as Mrs Hudson, their long-suffering housekeeper.
Steven Moffat says: "Everything that matters about Holmes and Watson is the same. Conan Doyle's stories were never about frock coats and gas light – they're about brilliant detection, dreadful villains and blood curdling crimes and frankly, to hell with the crinoline.
"Mark and I have been talking about this project for years, on long train rides to Cardiff for Doctor Who. Quite honestly, we'd still be talking about it if Sue Vertue, of Hartswood Films, hadn't sat us down for lunch and got us to work."
Mark Gatiss says: "The fact that Steven, myself and millions of others are still addicted to Conan Doyle's brilliant stories is testament to their indestructibility.
"They're as vital, lurid, thrilling and wonderful as they ever were. It's a dream come true to be making a new TV series and, in Benedict and Martin, we have the perfect Holmes and Watson for our time."
Sherlock was commissioned by Jay Hunt, Controller of BBC One, and Ben Stephenson, Controller of BBC Drama Commissioning.
Sherlock is executive produced by Beryl Vertue, Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat. The BBC executive producer is Bethan Jones.
Sherlock is a Hartswood Films production for BBC Wales, co-produced with Masterpiece. Rebecca Eaton is the executive producer for Masterpiece.
Sherlock is simulcast on the BBC HD channel – the BBC's High Definition channel, available through Freesat 108, Freeview 50, Sky 143 and Virgin 108.
So, this starts tonight at 9pm on BBC1. Anyone else watching?
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The perfect thing. At least for me.
Thank you, world!
I seriously can't get over this. I like Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman both a lot. And Sherlock Holmes. And Stephen Moffat. And BBC adaptations of books I already love.
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Sherlock fan.
It is a simple calculation, after that.
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Also...
"...A sister! There's always something!"
:P
EDIT: Oh, it's on iPlayer live!
some of the stuff felt a bit above me though, like i was lagging behind holmes and he was having to tell me shit, which i suppose is the intended effect but it meant there's no satisfying "oh what if it's XYZ". i have to confess i've never read a sherlock holmes book- did he always pull that "oh, your trouser leg is 5 millimeters shorter on the left side, indicating your dick is rotting off from the leprosy caught from the lady over there who is bluh bluh bluh" logic from mid air?
The art direction was brilliant, with the thoughts and text messages being presented very cleverly - it reminded me a bit of Night Watch, especially with the brief shot from behind the text when Holmes was looking at the body.
I loved all the nods to the originals - the case being a "three patch problem", and the curious case of Watson being shot in different places depending on which book you read.
I was completely taken in with the bait and switch with Mycroft - I should have known better to have assumed that Steven Moffat would have had such a typical introduction to the series nemesis
Edit: Yeah, Nuzak, Holmes does that a lot - in The Hound of the Baskervilles, he comes up with three or four paragraphs' worth of information from a walking stick.
For some reason, I think the showdown with the serial killer went on a little too long for a Sherlock Holmes adaptation.
All in all, a pretty solid start. Will all episodes be 90 minutes long, or will they be more condensed like most of the stories?
Also surely after the first couple of suicides people knew they were going to die, yet look like a suicide. Take the 'bullet' then at least the police will treat it like a murder.
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"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath, I know you've read the file" - brilliant.
The Princess Bride ending was a little difficult to take seriously, and Mark Gatiss is very difficult to take seriously, but overall this is showing a lot of promise.
How many episodes of this are there? I'm hoping it'll cure my Doctor Who cravings for a while.
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I liked it a lot. I thought it was going to be a weekly type of thing, but 3 feature length movies is just as good. I haven't read any of the books, but this makes me want to.
Holmes left me in the dust when
Freeman and Cumberbatch (made up name, surely) were great, and the whole thing bounced along merrily with few, if any, slow passages.
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It is England.
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Bogart's English. That's a weird name. And made up I think.
His mum is Wanda Ventham. I used to fancy her. How odd.
I dunno, Michael Caine's real name is Maurice Micklewhite. I'd say he toned it down.
Yep. David Tennant's real name is David McDonald. He claimed to have gotten his new name from Smash Hits!
Fairly sure the American one does as well - or maybe it's just the Writers' Guild, as I remember David X Cohen mentioning it in a Futurama commentary.
Hi5!
You can't have the same name as another member. Which is frankly retarded.
Also, if the cabby had held a gun to my head, I would have picked the pill too. I would have done it differently, though. His superpower is to predict my thought process in choosing the bottle, and, on basis of that, either hand me the poison or the not-poison. If you accept that he truly is a genius, and that he has a better than 50% chance of survival, we can limit his chances of survival by making the choice truly random. Toss a coin. Heads and I take the one handed to me. Tails and I take the other one.
If everyone did that, he would be lucky to survive more than two attempts.
Also, according to my brother, the breaking down Watson's past and phone is lifted almost entirely wholesale from the first Conan Doyle Holmes story (except there, it was referring to a pocket-watch, not a cellphone).
Mycroft coming in at the end there, however, was hilarious. I totally didn't see it coming, to the point where when "Mummy" came up I was all "wait, Moriarty and Holmes are brothers in this?"
I loved the nod to Watson's love for the ladies with him constantly trying to pick up Mycroft's PA there. Definitely looking forward to next week.
Not only is that a pretty good pun, it's making me want to watch this even more.
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