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The second series' final episode, "The Reichenbach Fall", was WANK In which Sherlock and Moriarty plunge to their deaths (the later ''[[The Adventure of the Empty House]]'' reveals that Holmes faked his death, even though Doyle intended to kill him off originally). Moffat and Gatiss expressed an interest in a third series, so long as Cumberbatch and Freeman were available and willing to return.<ref name="guard171211"/> During publicity for "The Reichenbach Fall", Moffat teased that any third series would be dependent upon Holmes' survival.<ref name="ds-moff-trf"/> [[Martin Freeman]] stated that "The hope is that we will make a third series."<ref name=graham.norton.2012>{{cite web |last=Jeffrey|first=Morgan |title=Martin Freeman 'hoping to make third series of Sherlock'|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s129/sherlock/news/a358781/martin-freeman-hoping-to-make-third-series-of-sherlock.html|work=Digital Spy|accessdate=7 January 2012}}</ref>
The second series' final episode, "The Reichenbach Fall", was based upon ''[[The Final Problem]]'', in which Sherlock and Moriarty plunge to their deaths (the later ''[[The Adventure of the Empty House]]'' reveals that Holmes faked his death, even though Doyle intended to kill him off originally). Moffat and Gatiss expressed an interest in a third series, so long as Cumberbatch and Freeman were available and willing to return.<ref name="guard171211"/> During publicity for "The Reichenbach Fall", Moffat teased that any third series would be dependent upon Holmes' survival.<ref name="ds-moff-trf"/> [[Martin Freeman]] stated that "The hope is that we will make a third series."<ref name=graham.norton.2012>{{cite web |last=Jeffrey|first=Morgan |title=Martin Freeman 'hoping to make third series of Sherlock'|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s129/sherlock/news/a358781/martin-freeman-hoping-to-make-third-series-of-sherlock.html|work=Digital Spy|accessdate=7 January 2012}}</ref>


Moffat aspired to tackle the details from the original stories that are rarely covered in adaptations, such as Watson marrying and living apart from Holmes.<ref name="ds-moff-trf">{{cite web |title='Sherlock' Steven Moffat interview: 'Holmes might not survive' |date=Jan 11 2012|first=Morgan |last=Jeffery |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s129/sherlock/interviews/a359357/sherlock-steven-moffat-interview-holmes-might-not-survive.html |work=Digital Spy |accessdate=2012-01-13}}</ref>
Moffat aspired to tackle the details from the original stories that are rarely covered in adaptations, such as Watson marrying and living apart from Holmes.<ref name="ds-moff-trf">{{cite web |title='Sherlock' Steven Moffat interview: 'Holmes might not survive' |date=Jan 11 2012|first=Morgan |last=Jeffery |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s129/sherlock/interviews/a359357/sherlock-steven-moffat-interview-holmes-might-not-survive.html |work=Digital Spy |accessdate=2012-01-13}}</ref>

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Sherlock
A view of the London skyline, with the word "Sherlock" in black letters
GenreCrime drama
Created by
Written by
Directed by
Starring
Composers
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes6 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Sue Vertue
  • Elaine Cameron 2.3
Cinematography
  • Steve Lawes
  • Fabian Wagner
Editors
  • Mali Evans
  • Charlie Phillips
Camera setupSingle camera
Running time90 mins
Production companies
Original release
Network
Release25 July 2010 (2010-07-25) –
present

Sherlock is a British television series that presents a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. It was created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. After an unbroadcast pilot in 2009, the first series of three 90-minute episodes was transmitted on BBC One and BBC HD in July and August 2010. A second series of three episodes premiered on BBC One on 1 January 2012.

Hartswood Films produced the series for the BBC, and co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series. Filming took place at various locations, including London and Cardiff.

Critical reception was overwhelmingly positive and the first series won the 2011 BAFTA Television Award for Best Drama Series.[1] The first series along with the unaired pilot and audio commentaries, was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 30 August 2010. The second series, also with commentaries, is to be released on Region 2 DVD on 23 January 2012.

Production

Development

The series is a collaboration between Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, who both had experience adapting or using Victorian literature for television.[2] Moffat had previously adapted the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the 2007 series Jekyll,[3] while Gatiss had written the Dickensian Doctor Who episode "The Unquiet Dead".[4] Moffat and Gatiss, who are both Doctor Who writers, discussed plans for a Holmes adaptation during their numerous train journeys to Cardiff where Doctor Who production is based.[5] The two writers are both big Sherlock Holmes fans;[6] Gatiss has said of the Holmes stories that "Whenever I meet someone who hasn't read them, I always think they have got so much fun to come."[6] The theme of 'friendship' appealed to both Gatiss and Moffat.[7] The writers realised that someone else would have the same idea to produce a modern-day version.[8] While they were in Monte Carlo for an awards ceremony, Moffat's wife, producer Sue Vertue, got them to start to work out how they might do it themselves.[8]

Gatiss has criticised recent television adaptations of the Conan Doyle stories as "too reverential and too slow", aiming instead to be as irreverent to the canon as the 1930s and 1940s films starring Basil Rathbone.[6] In the DVD audio commentary, Moffat and Gatiss say they decided that everything that had previously been done about Sherlock Holmes was canonical: not just the Conan Doyle stories but the Rathbone and Granada Television versions.[8] Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock uses modern technology, such as texting, the internet, and GPS, to solve crimes.[6] Paul McGuigan, who directed two episodes of Sherlock, says that this is in keeping with Conan Doyle's character, pointing out that "In the books he would use any device possible and he was always in the lab doing experiments. It's just a modern-day version of it. He will use the tools that are available to him today in order to find things out."[9]

The update maintains some traditional elements of the stories, such as the Baker Street address and Holmes' archenemy Moriarty.[10] Although the events of the books are transferred to the present day, canonical elements are incorporated into the story. For example, Martin Freeman's Watson has returned from military service in Afghanistan.[11] While discussing the fact that the original Watson was invalided home after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880), Gatiss realised that "It is the same war now, I thought. The same unwinnable war."[6]

Sherlock was announced as a single 60-minute drama production at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in August 2008,[2] with broadcast set for mid- to late 2009.[10] The intention was to produce a full series should the pilot prove to be successful.[10] However, the first version of the pilot – reported to have cost £800,000 – led to rumours within the BBC and wider media that Sherlock was a potential disaster.[12][13] The BBC decided not to transmit the pilot, requesting a reshoot and a total of three 90-minute episodes.[12][13] The original pilot was included as part of the series on DVD. During the audio commentary, the creative team say that the BBC were "very happy" with the pilot, but asked them to change the format.[8] The pilot, says journalist Mark Lawson, was "substantially expanded and rewritten, and completely reimagined in look, pace and sound."[13]

Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch during filming of Series 2.
Martin Freeman won a BAFTA for 'Best Supporting Actor' in 2011 for his role as Doctor Watson.

Benedict Cumberbatch plays Sherlock Holmes. "Cumberbatch", says The Guardian, "has a reputation for playing odd, brilliant men very well, and his Holmes is cold, techie, slightly Aspergerish."[14] Cumberbatch said, "There's a great charge you get from playing him, because of the volume of words in your head and the speed of thought—you really have to make your connections incredibly fast. He is one step ahead of the audience, and of anyone around him with normal intellect. They can't quite fathom where his leaps are taking him."[14] Piers Wenger, Head of Drama at BBC Wales, described the series's Sherlock as "a dynamic superhero in a modern world, an arrogant, genius sleuth driven by a desire to prove himself cleverer than the perpetrator and the police—everyone in fact."[10] Addressing changing social attitudes and broadcasting regulations, Cumberbatch's Holmes replaced the pipe with multiple nicotine patches.[9] The writers believed that Sherlock should not talk like "a completely modern person", says Moffat, but were initially intent that "he never sounded like he's giving a lecture." However, Moffat turned the character "more Victorian" in the second series, capitalising more on Cumberbatch's "beautiful voice".[15]

In an interview with The Observer, co-creator Mark Gatiss says that they experienced more difficulty finding the right actor to play Dr. John Watson than they had for the title character.[6] Producer Sue Vertue said, "Benedict was the only person we actually saw for [the part of] Sherlock ... Once Benedict was there it was really just making sure we got the chemistry for John [Watson]—and I think you get it as soon as they come into the room, you can see that they work together".[16] Several actors auditioned for the part of Watson,[8] with Martin Freeman eventually taking the role. Steven Moffat said that Matt Smith was the first to unsuccessfully audition. He was rejected for being too "barmy", as the producers required someone "straighter" for Watson.[17] Shortly after, Moffat cast Smith as the Eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who.

The writers said that Freeman's casting developed the way in which Cumberbatch played Holmes.[8] Journalist Victoria Thorpe said, "Freeman's dependable, capable Watson unlocks this modern Holmes, a man who now describes himself as 'a high-functioning sociopath'."[6] Gatiss asserted the importance of achieving the correct tone for the character. "Watson is not an idiot, although it's true that Conan Doyle always took the piss out of him," said Gatiss. "But only an idiot would surround himself with idiots."[6] Moffat said that Freeman is: "the sort of opposite of Benedict in everything except the amount of talent ... Martin finds a sort of poetry in the ordinary man. I love the fastidious realism of everything he does. I believe everything he does. It's brand new on every take."[8]

Rupert Graves was cast as DI Greg Lestrade. The writers referred to the character as "Inspector Lestrade" during development until Gatiss realised that in the modern world the character would have the title "Detective Inspector". Moffat and Gatiss pointed out that Lestrade does not appear often in the stories and is quite inconsistent in them. They decided to go with the version who appeared in "The Six Napoleons": a man who is frustrated by Holmes but admires him, and whom Holmes considers as the best person at Scotland Yard.[8] Several candidates took a comedic tack in their auditions, but the creative team preferred the gravitas that Graves brought to the role.[8]

Andrew Scott made his first appearance as Jim Moriarty in "The Great Game". Moffat said, "We knew what we wanted to do with Moriarty from the very beginning. Moriarty is usually a rather dull, rather posh villain so we thought someone who was genuinely properly frightening. Someone who's an absolute psycho".[16] Moffat and Gatiss were originally not going to put a confrontation into these three episodes between Moriarty and Sherlock, but realised that they "just had to do a confrontation scene. We had to do a version of the scene in 'The Final Problem' in which the two arch-enemies meet each other."[18]

The remainder of the regular cast includes Una Stubbs as Mrs. Hudson, co-creator Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes, and Lisa McAllister as Mycroft's assistant, Anthea.[19] Vinette Robinson and Louise Brealey play the recurring roles of Sergeant Sally Donovan and Molly Hooper respectively.

Guest appearances included Phil Davis as Jeff,[20] Paul Chequer as DI Dimmock,[21] Zoe Telford as Sarah,[21] Gemma Chan as Soo Lin Yao,[21] John Sessions as Kenny Prince,[22] Haydn Gwynne as Miss Wenceslas,[22] Deborah Moore[18] as one of Moriarty's victims and Peter Davison as the voice-over in the planetarium.[18] Series two's "A Scandal in Belgravia" featured Lara Pulver as Irene Adler, while "The Hounds of Baskerville" featured Russell Tovey as Henry Knight.

Recording

A street, with crew members looking towards a cafe and a house.
North Gower Street in London was used for exterior shots of the location of Holmes' "Baker Street" residence[23]

The show was produced by Hartswood Films for BBC Wales.[2] BBC Worldwide also provided co-production funding.[24] PBS-funded company Masterpiece co-produced the series.[25][26] Filming on the pilot began in January 2009 on location in London and Cardiff. It was written by Moffat and directed by Coky Giedroyc.[27] A seven-hour night shoot took place on 20/21 January at the No Sign bar in Wind Street, Swansea. The bar had been redesigned as an Italian restaurant for the shoot, where Holmes and Watson dined.[28] Location managers selected the bar as the venue because they needed a building that could double as an Italian restaurant that was close to an alley.[29] On 21 January, scenes were shot in Newport Road, Cardiff. Location shooting concluded on 23 January with scenes filmed on Baker Street, London.[28] During that week, filming was also done on location in Merthyr Tydfil.[30] The location shots for 221B Baker Street were filmed at 185 North Gower Street[23] – Baker Street was impractical because of heavy traffic,[31] and the number of things labeled "Sherlock Holmes", which would need to be disguised.[18]

In July 2009, the BBC drama department announced plans for three 90-minute episodes, to be broadcast in 2010.[32] Moffat had previously announced that if a series of Sherlock was commissioned, Gatiss would take over the duties of executive producer so that he could concentrate on producing Doctor Who.[2] "The Great Game" was partly set in a disused sewage works.[33] Production was based at Hartswood Films' Cardiff production unit, Hartswood Films West, which was opened in late 2009 to take advantage of the BBC's planned Cardiff Bay "drama village". Some filming took place at Upper Boat Studios, where Doctor Who had been filmed.[34] Filming commenced in January 2010. Paul McGuigan directed the first and third episodes and Euros Lyn directed the second one.[35][36] The three episodes were filmed in reverse order of their broadcast.[18]

Costumes for the pilot were designed by BAFTA Cymru-award winning costume designer Ray Holman.[37] Cumberbatch wore a £1,000 Belstaff coat in the series.[38] Sarah Arthur, the series' costume designer, explained how she achieved the detective's look. "Holmes wouldn't have any interest in fashion so I went for classic suits with a modern twist: narrow-leg trousers and a two-button, slim-cut jacket. I also went for slim-cut shirts and a sweeping coat for all the action scenes—it looks great against the London skyline."[38]

The writers say that they did not want to force modernity onto the story.[8] There were some creative challenges, such as the decision to include the sign "221B" on Holmes' front door. Gatiss and Moffat reflect that in the modern world the door would only display the number of the house, and there would be doorbells for each flat. The full house number is so iconic that they felt unable to change it.[8] The writers also decided that the lead characters would address each other by their first names, rather than the traditional Holmes and Watson.[8] This was also reflected in the title of the series. Director Paul McGuigan came up with the idea of putting text messages on the screen instead of having cut-away shots of a hand holding the phone.[8]

The producers found it difficult to coordinate the schedules of the principal players and Moffat and Gatiss for a second series. Cumberbatch and Freeman both worked on the 2012 film The Hobbit, and Moffat continued as Doctor Who's head writer. In response to the time pressure, The Guardian asserted, the series "features reworkings of three of Conan Doyle's most recognised tales."[39] Gatiss says that there had been an argument for producing these tales over three years, but Moffat explained that they rejected "deferred pleasure".[39] The relationship between Holmes and Watson developed during the second series, with Watson being less amazed by Sherlock's deductive abilities; Watson acted as the primary detective in the second episode, "The Hounds Of Baskerville".[39]

Episodes

Series 1 (2010)

№ # Title Directed by Written by UK viewers
(million)[40] 		Share
(%) 		Original air date
11"A Study in Pink"Paul McGuiganSteven Moffat9.2328.5[41]25 July 2010 (2010-07-25)
The police investigate the deaths of a series of people who all appear to have committed suicide by taking a poisonous pill. They turn to their unofficial consultant, Sherlock Holmes, who deduces various elements pointing to a serial killer. Meanwhile, Sherlock Holmes is introduced to John Watson, a former soldier, and the pair immediately move into a flat in Baker Street. John Watson slowly gets to know and trust Holmes despite a police officer warning him that Holmes is a psychopath and will one day be responsible for murder. Sherlock's brother Mycroft, at first not revealing his identity, kidnaps Watson and asks whether he'll spy on Holmes for money, but Watson refuses. After a series of incidents, the person responsible for the deaths, a taxicab driver, reveals that his victims took their own lives by playing a game of Russian roulette with two pills: one fatally poisonous, the other safe. Watson shoots the cabbie, who reveals as he dies that Moriarty masterminded the entire plan.
22"The Blind Banker"Euros LynSteve Thompson8.0725.5[42]1 August 2010 (2010-08-01)
Holmes is hired by an old friend to investigate a mysterious break-in at a bank in the City. He discovers that symbols spray-painted onto an office wall are a coded message intended for an employee of the bank, who is later discovered dead in his flat. The next day, a journalist is killed and the same symbols are found nearby. Holmes and Watson follow a trail of clues that link the two dead men to a Chinese smuggling ring, who are trying to retrieve a valuable item that one of them stole. Holmes eventually cracks the coded message based on Suzhou numerals and a book cipher, but not before Watson and a female friend are kidnapped by the criminals. Holmes rescues Watson's friend but the leader of the gang escapes. After escaping, the leader of gang is in communication with her superior, who is identified by the initial "M". She is then shot by a sniper.
33"The Great Game"Paul McGuiganMark Gatiss9.1831.3[44]8 August 2010 (2010-08-08)
Sherlock Holmes is commissioned by Mycroft to investigate the suspicious death of a government employee who was working on a top-secret defence project: the Bruce-Partington Project.[43] After apparently rejecting the case and handing it over to Watson, Holmes begins to be taunted by a criminal who puts his victims into explosive vests and sets Holmes deadlines to solve the apparently unrelated cases, which include a twenty-year-old cold case involving the shoes of a drowned boy, the disappearance of a businessman, the death of a TV personality and the death of a guard of an art gallery at the hands of an assassin called the Golem. As Holmes solves the cases, he finds links between them. After clearing up the original case of the civil servant, Holmes tries to force his unseen adversary to reveal himself. Near the end of the episode Holmes and "Jim Moriarty" reach a standoff and Jim reveals that he is responsible for the crimes. In the final seconds Sherlock Holmes points his gun at a bomb on the floor.

Series 2 (2012)

The second series of three 90-minute episodes was initially planned to air in late 2011.[45] However, a lengthy filming schedule forced the broadcast date to 1 January 2012, with a PBS broadcast confirmed for May.[46] At the Kapow! 11 convention, Gatiss confirmed that the three episodes would be based on the stories A Scandal in Bohemia, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Final Problem, and that the writers would be Moffat, Gatiss and Thompson, respectively.[47] Gatiss explained, "We knew after having a successful first run that the natural order would be to do three of the most famous [stories]".[47] "There's the question of how to go out on a cliffhanger and then the thematic things of the three stories, where we were trying to get to and what Sherlock and John's relationship is a little further on. You can't just go back to: 'You have no emotions.' 'I don't care.' You've got to move on somewhere and make sure the other characters have something of a journey too."[47] Paul McGuigan directed two episodes,[48][49] and Doctor Who director Toby Haynes handled "The Reichenbach Fall".[50] Filming ran from 16 May 2011 to 24 August. The BBC Press Office confirmed details including the return of the main cast and production team. Sue Vertue produced the first two episodes and Elaine Cameron produced the third, with Vertue credited as executive producer for this episode.[51] Russell Tovey appeared in "The Hounds of Baskerville"[52] and Lara Pulver portrayed Irene Adler.[53]

№ # Title Directed by Written by UK viewers
(million)[40] 		Share
(%) 		Original air date
41"A Scandal in Belgravia"Paul McGuiganSteven Moffat10.6630.91 January 2012 (2012-01-01)
Mycroft hires Holmes and Watson to retrieve compromising photos of a minor royal held on the camera phone of Irene Adler, a ruthless and brilliant dominatrix who also trades in classified information extracted from her rich and powerful clients. Holmes obtains Adler's phone, but discovers it is booby-trapped and requires a code to disarm. When Adler discovers that the CIA are on her trail, she disappears and is then apparently killed, only to reappear months later when the coast is clear. Adler manipulates Holmes into deciphering a coded message on her phone which she obtained from another well-connected client. She sends the message to Moriarty, who in turn uses it to foil a British counter-terror operation. Adler then goes underground again. The episode concludes as Mycroft tells Watson that she has been killed by a terrorist group in Pakistan. This is another decoy: Sherlock helped her escape.
52"The Hounds of Baskerville"Paul McGuiganMark Gatiss8.16[54]TBA8 January 2012 (2012-01-08)

Sherlock and John are contacted by Henry Knight, a man plagued by the traumatic memories of the death of his father at the hands of a monstrous hound on Dartmoor years before. Investigating Dewer's Hollow, a local spot where the beast was allegedly seen, as well as the nearby Ministry of Defence testing site Baskerville, Holmes and Watson uncover a conspiracy wherein one of the Baskerville scientists, Dr. Frankland, is continuing the work of H.O.U.N.D., an aborted American project to create a hallucinogenic gas for military use.

Holmes and Watson discover that the legendary hound is an ordinary dog used for publicity that the hallucinogenic gas makes appear as a demonic monster. The 'hound' that killed Henry's father was actually Frankland wearing a red-lensed gas mask and a T-shirt bearing the logo of the HOUND group. The traumatized young Henry's memory transformed Frankland into a red-eyed hound.

Confronting both the dog and Frankland at Dewer's Hollow, Watson and Lestrade shoot it while Frankland flees into the Great Grimpen Minefield, a security measure for Baskerville. Frankland dies after he steps on a mine. In the final scene, Mycroft released a confined Jim Moriarty. After his release, an agent discovers that he has carved "Sherlock" all over the window and cell walls.
63"The Reichenbach Fall"[51]Toby HaynesSteve ThompsonTBATBA15 January 2012 (2012-01-15)[55][56]

Future

The second series' final episode, "The Reichenbach Fall", was based upon The Final Problem, in which Sherlock and Moriarty plunge to their deaths (the later The Adventure of the Empty House reveals that Holmes faked his death, even though Doyle intended to kill him off originally). Moffat and Gatiss expressed an interest in a third series, so long as Cumberbatch and Freeman were available and willing to return.[39] During publicity for "The Reichenbach Fall", Moffat teased that any third series would be dependent upon Holmes' survival.[15] Martin Freeman stated that "The hope is that we will make a third series."[57]

Moffat aspired to tackle the details from the original stories that are rarely covered in adaptations, such as Watson marrying and living apart from Holmes.[15]

After the end of the final episode of the second series, Mark Gatiss announced that a third series was in the works, and had been commissioned at the same time as Series 2. [58]

Premieres

The first episode, "A Study in Pink", was initially broadcast in the United Kingdom on 25 July 2010 simultaneously on BBC One and BBC HD.[59] The other episodes were broadcast on the following two Sundays. In the United States, PBS stations broadcast the series under the Masterpiece banner, after BBC Worldwide signed a co-production deal with WGBH Boston.[25] The episodes were broadcast on PBS from 24 October 2010 through 7 November 2010.[60] Sherlock was broadcast on 18 October 2010, by the Nine Network in Australia,[61][62] SVT in Sweden, NPO in the Netherlands, NRK in Norway, VRT in Belgium and DR in Denmark. The latter four sales were made by BBC Worldwide at the 2010 MIPTV Media Market.[63] Sherlock premiered on Channel One in Russia (the series was renamed "Sherlock Holmes") on 18 September 2010,[64] and by YLE on 5 June 2011 in Finland, renamed "New Sherlock".[65] In Germany, the show premièred on Das Erste on 24 July 2011,[66] On 22 August 2011, Sherlock premièred on NHK BS Premium in Japan,[67] and in Spain on Antena 3 on 12 January 2012.

Reception

The show launched to critical acclaim, with excellent reviews. The first episode rated highly on the Appreciation Index.[68][69] The Observer said the show was "a cross between Withnail and I and The Bourne Ultimatum, there is also a hint of Doctor Who about the drama; hardly surprising, since it has been written and created by Doctor Who writers Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat".[6] The Guardian's Dan Martin said, "It's early days, but the first of three 90-minute movies, "A Study In Pink", is brilliantly promising. It has the finesse of Spooks but is indisputably Sherlock Holmes. The deduction sequences are ingenious, and the plot is classic Moffat intricacy.".[70] Sam Wollaston, also for The Guardian, was concerned that some elements of the story were unexplained.[71] Tom Sutcliffe for The Independent also suggests that Holmes was "a bit slow" to solve the case, but his review was otherwise positive. He wrote, "Sherlock is a triumph, witty and knowing, without ever undercutting the flair and dazzle of the original. It understands that Holmes isn't really about plot but about charisma ... Flagrantly unfaithful to the original in some respects, Sherlock is wonderfully loyal to it in every way that matters".[72] After the high ratings for "A Study in Pink", the BBC were reportedly eager to produce more episodes.[73] On 10 August 2010, it was confirmed that Sherlock had been renewed for a second series.[16]

The series won the BAFTA award for "best drama series". Freeman won "best supporting actor" for his role as Doctor Watson. The show was nominated for the "YouTube Audience Award" and Cumberbatch was nominated for "best actor".[74] The first series also won the Arqiva award for the best terrestrial show at the 2011 Edinburgh International Television Festival.[75] "A Study in Pink" was nominated for an Emmy Award.[76] Conan Doyle fans were generally appreciative. Gwilym Mumford, for The Guardian, suggested "this has to do with the fact that Moffat and Gatiss are enormously knowledgeable about Conan Doyle's work, and their reimagining incorporates big- and small-screen adaptations of Holmes as well as the original stories. As Gatiss puts it: 'Everything is canonical.'"[39] Sarah Crompton, for The Telegraph, identifies some of the jokes and allusions intended for fans.[77]

The show's popularity resulted in enquiries for coats similar to Sherlock's, reported retailer Debenhams. Garment manufacturer Belstaff put the wool trench coat worn by Benedict Cumberbatch back into production before the series had ended.[78] The Independent reported, "designer Paul Costelloe moved to meet the demand, offering tailored coats and scarves based on the series, while Savile Row bespoke tailor John Pearse said many of his clients were inquiring about the actors' clothes".[38] Journalist Alexis Petridis commented, "you can see why men wanted to get the look. Perhaps they noted the effect Cumberbatch, by no means your standard telly hunk, had on lady viewers ... and decided it must have something to do with the clobber. So it is that Britain's latest men's style icon is a fictional asexual sociopath first seen onscreen hitting a corpse with a stick. Surely not even the great detective himself could have deduced that was going to happen."[78] Publishers and retailers reported a 180% rise in sales of Sherlock Holmes books during the first series' broadcast.[79] Speedy's, the sandwich shop below the flat filmed as Holmes' residence, reported a sharp rise in new customers who recognised it from the show.[31] BBC Online published several tie-in websites relating to the show's fictional world. These were written by Joseph Lidster, who had also contributed to the Doctor Who tie-in websites.[80]

Home release

The first series was released on disc by 2entertain in the UK on 30 August 2010, in Australia on 4 November,[81] and the United States on 9 November 2010. The release included the three episodes and several special features. "A Study in Pink" featured audio commentaries by Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue, while Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and Mark Gatiss comment on "The Great Game". The release included the pilot episode, a 60-minute version of "A Study in Pink" directed by Coky Giedroyc.[82][83] Critic Mark Lawson called the decision to include the pilot "commendable and brave".[13] The British Board of Film Classification rated the pilot and the three episodes as a 12 certificate for video and online exhibition.[84][85][86][87] The release also contained a 32-minute documentary about the production called "Unlocking Sherlock".[88]

The second series UK disc release is scheduled on 23 January 2012.[89] The release will include an audio commentary for "The Hound of Baskerville".[90] The soundtrack album for the first series will be released on 30 January 2012.[91]

See also

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