Photo credit: http://www.benedictcumberbatch.co.uk/sherlock-promotional-photos/
Yes - this is what we have all been waiting for - Sherlock Series One is coming back to the BBC! A Study in Pink (the first episode) will be screened on Wednesday 20 July at 8.30pm on BBC1.
Cut and pasted from the BBC website:
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures in 21st Century London. A thrilling, funny, fast-paced contemporary remake of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic.
A Study In Pink: A war hero, invalided home from Afghanistan, meets a strange but charismatic genius who is looking for a flatmate; it is London, 2010, and Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes are meeting for the first time. A string of impossible suicides has Scotland Yard baffled - and only one man can help.
Follow the link for more details:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t4pgh
Why does Raks like Sherlock?
I love absolutely everything about Sherlock. Inspired by the series, I took my Complete Sherlock Holmes collection down off the shelf after 25 years and re-read the entire Canon (4 novellas and 56 short stories).
Inititally, when I heard that Benedict would be playing Sherlock all I thought was "great - he is an excellent actor and he has the right face for Holmes". But then I watched the first episode, saw his performance and it totally blew me away!
In my teens I was a voracious reader of all the Sherlock Holmes stories, and Holmes was my hero. He had me at Hello. I fell for him hook, line and sinker. Intellect - Huge. Holmes is a genius and the cleverest man in England (excepting his brother Mycroft). He is rake thin. He has an angular face. He is tall. He is arrogant. He has supreme self-confidence. He has self-belief in bucketloads. Sherlock Holmes has got it going on!
Benedict perfectly embodied for me the Sherlock Holmes I had created in my own imagination when I read the books in my teens. He just brought the character to life and placed him in the London in which I live and work. Particularly impressive for me was the way he conveys the brilliance, genius and quickness of Holmes's mind. Also how he captures a lot of the Holmesian physicality described in the books. Then there is the fact that his movement is sleek as a cat.
I could go on and on, but that is it in a nutshell.
BRING IT ON!
