A new TV adventure called Sherlock North is in the works charting the consulting detective’s time in Finland when he was on the run from Professor Moriarty. The planned ten-part series is being overseen by Finnish/US production house Snapper Films and will draw on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s description of Holmes’ stay in Finland when he is on the run from his arch adversary after faking his own death at the Reichenbach Falls.
Category: Arthur Conan Doyle
a Arthur and Sherlock:a the city and the genius that made Sherlock Holmes real
No matter which Sherlock Holmes you visualize as you read the canon – the suave, top-hatted Jeremy Brett? Perhaps the ever-so-tightly-suited Benedict Cumberbatch? – you’re wrong. The “real” Holmes was a patrician gent named Dr. Joseph Bell, who lectured at the University of Edinburgh’s medical school in the 19th century and had a knack for revealing things about a person that a casual acquaintance could never have known.
Sherlock: The Final Problem – ‘What a shame it had to end this way’
Baffling and then some, the concluding episode of Sherlock season four was a greatest hits revisiting of everything good, bad and ridiculous about Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s mind-twisting take on Arthur Conan Doyle Baffling and then some, the concluding episode of Sherlock season four was a greatest hits revisiting of everything good, bad and ridiculous about Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s mind-twisting take on Arthur Conan Doyle Baffling and then some, the concluding episode of Sherlock season four was a greatest hits revisiting of everything good, bad and ridiculous about Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s mind-twisting take on Arthur Conan Doyle … (more)
Mark Gatiss’ response to a Sherlock critic is a true work of art
Sherlock producer and actor Mark Gatiss has made a poetic response to critics who have attacked the show’s latest series for being too much like James Bond. The star, 50, wrote a five-verse piece, complete with rhyme, explaining how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective had always been a skilled fighter.
Get this! ‘Sherlock’ star Benedict Cumberbatch is related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
That’s elementary, according to genealogy website Ancestry.com. Cumberbatch is distantly related to author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the brilliant but quirky sleuth some 130 years ago, the website said on Sunday.
Researchers find Cumberbatch related to Holmes’ creator
Genealogy detectives have discovered that Benedict Cumberbatch, the British actor who portrays Sherlock Holmes in the PBS television series, is distantly related to the author who created the iconic character more than a century ago. Cumberbatch, 40, and the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who died in 1930, were 16th cousins, twice removed, according to the web site Ancestry.com.
Researchers Find Benedict Cumberbatch Is Distantly Related to Sherlock Holmes’ Creator
Genealogy detectives have discovered that Benedict Cumberbatch, the British actor who portrays Sherlock Holmes in the PBS television series, is distantly related to the author who created the iconic character more than a century ago. Cumberbatch, 40, and the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who died in 1930, were 16th cousins, twice removed, according to the web site Ancestry.com.
a Sherlocka opens up the old boysa club to women
But the introduction of Mary Morstan, Watson’s fiancée-to-be, turned the show into something more like a three-hander. “I like him,” Mary announced upon meeting Sherlock Holmes at the start of Season 3, after the hero – who had apparently died in a suicidal plunge at the end of Season 2 – turned up during Watson’s proposal to Morstan over dinner.