So far, this has been an extraordinary season of Sherlock, in the most literal sense. The ‘case of the week’ format hasn’t been so much moved aside as fired into orbit, or, perhaps, locked at the bottom of a lit bonfire. We’ve had an entire episode dealing with Sherlock fitting back in to London even …
The Empty Hearse was one of the most audacious pieces of TV in years. It bravely chose to give viewers three different solutions to Holmes’ survival of ‘The Reichenbach Fall’, all just about plausible. It even, rather splendidly, teased us with a further ten possibilities. The most important question in the history of the series …
I’m a sucker for this time of year because your perception of time alters, the festive three day period sitting in a time zone all by itself. I’m writing this on a Friday and it feels like a Wednesday, because Greenwich Christmas Time has landed this week and as it always does, has thrown me …
This is Sherlock Holmes’ year, we’re just living in it. No less than three new versions of Conan Doyle’s classic detective are launching this year across three different media and three very different approaches. The obvious question of course is why? The less obvious question is which, if any, will succeed? It seems oddly fitting …