The newest incarnations...
What do you think?
Another, more dynamic, picture here with the article:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/tubetalk/a239125/first-look-picture-exclusive-sherlock.html
I think they look quite the part for this contemporary revival of the detecting duo, which I believe will show on BBC television in the UK this autumn. Three episodes seem to have been filmed: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/
Quote from a BBC webpage:
Co-created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the new Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as his loyal friend, Doctor John Watson. Rupert Graves plays Inspector Lestrade.
The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain - they live at the same address of 221b Baker Street, have the same names and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them.
Rupert Graves as Inspector Lestrade though... that seems slightly strange. However I look forward to seeing the miniseries. I'm more than happy to embrace another version of the characters and see them in action nowadays. The mobile phone will have done away with the need for all those telegrams! But do the modern-day counterparts eschew the London Underground as the canon characters did? I wonder...
Another, more dynamic, picture here with the article:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/tubetalk/a239125/first-look-picture-exclusive-sherlock.html
I think they look quite the part for this contemporary revival of the detecting duo, which I believe will show on BBC television in the UK this autumn. Three episodes seem to have been filmed: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/
Quote from a BBC webpage:
Co-created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the new Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as his loyal friend, Doctor John Watson. Rupert Graves plays Inspector Lestrade.
The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain - they live at the same address of 221b Baker Street, have the same names and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them.
Rupert Graves as Inspector Lestrade though... that seems slightly strange. However I look forward to seeing the miniseries. I'm more than happy to embrace another version of the characters and see them in action nowadays. The mobile phone will have done away with the need for all those telegrams! But do the modern-day counterparts eschew the London Underground as the canon characters did? I wonder...