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The photos debut as it was reported yesterday that the streamer is being sued by the Arthur Conan Doyle estate alleges that the stories focusing on "Holmes’ younger sister infringes on the Holmes stories that remain under copyright The estate claims that the film starring Millie Bobby Brown, depicts the legendary detective as warm and friendly, a[...]

To put it all in perspective, the series ran for seven seasons, 154 episodes - more than twice Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original 60 stories.[caption id="attachment_1074260" align="alignnone" width="1200"] CBS[/caption]Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu played Holmes and Watson longer than Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce did in the 1940's films They were in it longer[...]

They found that Benedict Cumberbatch, the actor who stars as the modern day Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the super-sleuth, are related They share a common ancestor named John of Gaunt The 14th century Duke of Lancaster was the fourth son of King Edward III of England and a close friend[...]

Tonight is the premiere of the new Fox series Houdini & Doyle based loosely on the real life relationship between author Arthur Conan Doyle (Stephen Mangan) and escape artist Harry Houdini (Michael Weston). At the turn of the 20th century the Metropolitan Police were overwhelmed with bizarre cases so they turned to outsiders including Houdini and[...]

Tony Lee talks to David Liss about writing Sherlock Holmes: Moriarty Lives for Dynamite Entertainment TONY LEE: David, Moriarty is one of the best known villains of the last century, which is strange considering that he's actually only been mentioned in a couple of Conan Doyle novels. Why does he call to you? DAVID LISS: […]

I couldn't care less if this new Sherlock Holmes is an accurate portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle's character, I only want the show to work on its own terms.There was a lot of good stuff in this second trailer, most particularly the unanswered questions - why would he break out of rehab on the day[...]

The big new idea in Blu-ray special features is that of "the second screen experience," something that you'll run on your phone or tablet in sync with the movie playing on your TV screen. This week, Warner Bros. have released Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows on disc, and the iPad extra through the app […]

It probably didn't take too much to guess which story would form the basis of the next episode of Sherlock. The last chapter saw Holmes fake his death, and the next one will see him return, and that all points to an adaptation of The Adventure of the Empty House, the story wherein Conan Doyle […]

He knows that Sherlock Holmes was not his creation, and he knows that the idea of updating Holmes was not new either, but Steven Moffat is still feeling pretty miffed about CBS' upcoming show Elementary. Speaking at the Royal Television Society Awards, the BBC's Sherlock-meister told Newsbeat: It isn't a version of our show. They've […]

But still: a pun.So, moving on from Shakespeare to Arthur Conan Doyle, the sequel to Gnomeo and Juliet is to come with the subtitle Sherlock Gnomes. According to Deadline, the plot goes something like this: When gnomes start disappearing from the suburban gardens of England, Gnomeo, Juliet and friends enlist the help of Sherlock Gnomes, “the greatest[...]

Despite their differences, there's no doubt that Stout's mysteries were greatly influenced by Arthur Conan Doyle's stories of Sherlock Holmes, and there was even a popular theory, as published in The Baker Street Journal and then woven into the mix of Nicholas Meyer's Holmes Novel, The Canary Trainer, that Wolfe was in fact the secret[...]

Seems that Liu is playing a doctor after all, and a medical one at that. And Miller won't be having to do an American accent.

In an unexpected deviation from the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories, not to mention the BBC show Sherlock that we've been (unfairly?) comparing it to at every turn, it's being reported that the Holmes-in-contemporary-New York series Elementary is going to have a female Watson.Lucy Liu has won this, one of the greatest of sidekick roles,[...]

This is starting to look creepy. Like Single White Female Creepy. CBS have cast Benedict Cumberbatch's sometime alter ego as… well, Benedict Cumberbatch's alter ego in their New York-set, modern day take on the Sherlock Holmes stories. The part has gone to Jonny Lee Miller, who last year starred in Danny Boyle's stage production of […]

Once again, I should warn you that there will be spoilers ahead as we take a closer look at a few little pieces of tonight's fresh Sherlock installment, The Hounds of Baskerville.This episode was written by Mark Gatiss, the show's co-creator alongside Steven Moffat and, I suppose, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Hopes were high that[...]

Sherlock Holmes has proven a very resilient creation, not only surviving but even blossoming through a regular supply of strong and exciting adaptations over his one hundred and twenty some years. More lately there have even been several successful overhauls, complete reworkings that take the essential Holmes components and change pretty much everything else – […]

Originally scheduled for any-moment-now, the second series of the BBC Sherlock has been postponed until next year. There's been no official announcement of when so far, but we've at least got some kind of reliable indication now. Lara Pulver, who will be playing Irene Adler in the Steven Moffat-penned episode, A Scandal in Belgravia, was […]