By STEVE TILLEY, QMI AGENCY
Posted 3 hours ago
What's the best way to dilute the success of a clever and imaginative British television series?
Elementary, my dear Watson: Let some Americans rip it off.
Much praise has been heaped on BBC TV's Sherlock (Thursdays at 8 p.m. on BBC Canada), and with good reason. Starring wonderfully named Brit actor Benedict Cumberbatch ( Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) as a present-day Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman ( Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the UK version of The Office) as army veteran Dr. John Watson, Sherlock has breathed new life into the played-out police procedural drama.
The show's got wit and brains and guts and -- maybe most remarkably -- a reverence for the Sherlock Holmes characters and stories on which the six 90-minute episodes are loosely based. But the particular success of Sherlock's modern-day setting has made CBS sit up and take notice. And not everyone seems happy with the idea of Holmes coming to America.
Debuting this spring on CBS, the pilot episode of a new series dubbed Elementary will star Brit-born actor Jonny Lee Miller (Eli Stone, Dexter) as yet another present-day Sherlock Holmes, but with a couple of significant twists.
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