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First published 02:02 Monday 9 March 2015 in Entertainment & Lifestyle
ITVARTHUR & GEORGE EPISODE 3Pictured: MARTIN CLUNES as Arthur AND HATTIE MORAHAN as Jean.These images are the copyright of ITV/DOYLE 2014 LTD. (19965343)
SHE'S due to be seen in a fictional TV adventure with an elderly Sherlock Holmes, played by Sir Ian McKellen, in Mr Holmes, so there's a detecting connection for Hattie Morahan at the moment as millions watch her as the real life Jean Leckie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's love interest in three-part series Arthur & George.
Morahan admires her character’s patience and fortitude for waiting so long for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Martin Clunes) to propose marriage.
“I think it must have been very difficult at the time to contend with other people’s gossip and sense of scandal. They had to endure that quite a lot; people making assumptions about the relationship. We still don’t know whether they were utterly platonic before his wife died. To give them the benefit of the doubt, it seems that is what they tried to do. I think there was an awful lot of gossip. When they got married there was a lot of sneering about their relationship. The good thing is that they remained together until he died, and they had children. It was obviously an absolute meeting of souls," says Morahan.
Would the actress have waited that long? “If this is the person you love more than anything else in the world, then what can you do. It is going to make you more miserable walking away from the relationship. There is a moment in the story where we see her reaching the end of her tether, and saying ‘It’s been great, I don’t regret a moment, but I can’t do this any longer’. Her taking that step makes him reconsider his position."
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By FEHINTOLA BETIKU
PUBLISHED: 14:36 EST, 12 November 2014
UPDATED: 18:44 EST, 12 November 2014
He's best known for portraying Gary Strang in Men Behaving Badly.
But appearing to be on his best behaviour, Martin Clunes cut a dapper figure as he shot scenes for the upcoming drama Arthur & George on Wednesday.
Making an appearance at Hughenden Manor in High Wycombe, the 52-year-old actor went back to the 19th century as he got into character as British novelist and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Set in 1903, the television series, which is an adaption of Julian Barnes’ novel Arthur & George, will document true events that took place in the life of Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle.
Directed by Stuart Orme, whose work includes Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the drama was written by Ed Whitmore.
Arsher Ali, Art Malik, Emma Fielding, Charles Edwards, Hattie Morahan and Sandra Voe also feature in the three part series.
Martin Clunes plays celebrated author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Arthur & George
Martin Clunes plays the celebrated novelist and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in a three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes’ novel, Arthur & George for ITV. Filming begins this week in London and Staffordshire on the drama, which is based on an intriguing series of true events in the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who famously created the detective Sherlock Holmes.
Conan Doyle recaptures his zest for life by pursuing and challenging a notorious miscarriage of justice. It is the case of George Edalji, a hard-working solicitor and the son of Hampshire vicar, Reverend Shapurji Edalji and his wife Charlotte. George has served seven years in Pentonville Prison for allegedly mutilating animals and sending threatening letters. The offences have become known as The Great Wyrley Rippings.
Following the death of his wife, Louisa, Conan Doyle has become a “bore and a sulk” by his own admission. All around him do their best to bolster Arthur from his grief and mourning including his beloved ‘Mam’ who implores him to “sink his teeth into something. If not a book then some new pursuit.”
Set in 1903 in Staffordshire, Hampshire and London with the backdrop of Conan Doyle’s family home, Undershaw, Sir Arthur joins forces with his trusted manservant, Alfred ‘Woodie’ Wood with whom he has a very strong bond.
On learning of George’s plight and glimpsing the headlines concerning the Great Wyrley Rippings, Conan Doyle urges Woodie to arrange a meeting with George, who is released from prison after serving three years of his seven year sentence. Now at 27, George is desperate to clear his name so he can return to his career.
Arthur & George also features Conan Doyle’s relationship with Jean Leckie, a much younger woman, with whom he enjoyed a ‘platonic’ relationship whilst his wife was alive. Jean eventually became his second wife.
Martin is joined by a prestigious cast including Arsher Ali (Four Lions, Complicit, The Guilty, Silent Witness) as George Edalji, Art Malik (The Jewel in the Crown, True Lies, Upstairs Downstairs, Holby City) as his father, the Reverend Shapurji Edalji, Emma Fielding (Silk, DCI Banks, Kidnap and Ransom) as his mother Charlotte Edalji, Charles Edwards (Downton Abbey, Trying Again, A Young Doctor’s Notebook) as Woodie Wood, Hattie Morahan (The Bletchley Circle, Outnumbered, Eternal Law, Sense and Sensibility) as Jean Leckie and Sandra Voe (Breaking the Waves, Vera Drake, The Winter Guest, Holby City) as Mam.
It has been announced that Sherlock will return to screens for a television special, followed by a series of three new episodes.
The last series saw Sherlock’s life change a lot - he returned from the dead, his best friend John Watson married Mary Morstan and he met his match in Charles Augustus Magnussen. After the briefest of exiles, Sherlock came back only to face one of his biggest mysteries yet. Why is Moriarty’s face being broadcast on every television in the land?
Speaking about the return of the series, co-creator, writer and executive producer Steven Moffat says: "A special, plus a new series of three episodes - it's a record-breaking run!
"Of course, it's far too early to say what's coming, but we're reasonably confident that the very next thing to happen to Sherlock and John, is the very last thing you'd expect..."
Co-creator, writer and executive producer Mark Gatiss, added: "Series four! At last! It's always special to return to Sherlock but this time it's even more special as we're doing...a special! Not only that, we'll then be shooting three more episodes which will take Sherlock and John Watson into deeper and darker water than ever before. The whole Sherlock team are terrifically excited to return for four new adventures. The game is on - again!"
Martin Clunes will play Sherlock Holmes' creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in a new drama inspired by one of the writer's real-life cases.
ITV's Arthur and George is based on a novel by Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes about Conan Doyle's efforts to clear an Anglo-Indian solicitor who was jailed for a crime he did not commit at the turn of the 20th century.
ITV boss Peter Fincham said the "wonderful" story would be made into a three-part drama.
He said: "It's about Conan Doyle who himself gets drawn into an extraordinary mystery with racial overtones which makes it a very modern story though it's set in 1903".
Barnes' novel recounts the case of George Edalji who served three years hard labour after being convicted on a charge of injuring a pony, but was pardoned after Conan Doyle campaigned on his behalf.
The British star, who brought Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved detective into the 21st century, will be presenting his new short film Little Favour to a Polish audience.
Fellow Briton Mike Newell, director of such diverse movies as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and mafia classic Donnie Brasco, is on the jury of the main competition this year.
The so-called 'Making Way' contest looks to celebrate emerging international talent, and only directorial debuts or second films can be entered.
Other jurors include thrice Oscar-nominated US actress Joan Allen and 'Queen of the Indies' Parker Posey, who has played in cult movies such as Dazed and Confused, Basquiat and Best in Show. Veteran Polish actor and director Jerzy Stuhr will chair the jury
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By Harri Sargeant (@harrisargeant) at 1:00 pm, February 7, 2014
Reviewed by Donya Abramo
Sherlock week continues as we show you 10 moments of series 3 that you missed out on if you don’t read the Sherlock Holmes novels.
Back in December, we brought you 10 Sherlock references you missed because you don’t read the books, sharing the answers to references like Vatican Cameos and Mycroft’s diet. Since then, the world has been treated to the emotional rollercoaster of series 3 – and plenty more cheeky nods to canon that non-book readers probably didn’t understand.
Well, we here at Hypable think you should be reading the books. To show you what you’re missing out on, we’ve compiled a list of 10 nods to canon from the show’s third series. If you haven’t read Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories, this will hopefully explain a few of those references that have always puzzled you, and encourage you to run to the library and grab the source material to help pass the excruciating wait for series 4.
"I have not introduced you yet,’ said Holmes. ‘This, gentlemen, is Colonel Sebastian Moran, once of Her Majesty’s Indian Army, and the best heavy game shot that our Eastern Empire has ever produced. I believe I am correct, Colonel, in saying that your bag of tigers still remains unrivalled?’”
- Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Empty House”
With Moriarty seemingly dead at the end of “The Reichenbach Fall,” fans were fervently speculating about who the big new bad would be. When we found out that the series 3 opener would be called “The Empty Hearse,” many were sure we would be seeing Colonel Sebastian Moran – Moriarty’s right-hand man and notorious big game hunter.
However, when it was announced we’d instead get Charles Augustus Magnussen as the great detective’s latest adversary, we thought the Moran dream was over. And in a sense it was – as “The Empty Hearse” focused instead on an underground terrorism plot not entirely unlike V for Vendetta. But writer Mark Gatiss still left in a nod to the episode’s namesake story. The corrupt politician behind the deadly scheme is known as Lord Moran.
It would be nice if we could see the book version of the character, as his aggressive skill with a gun and ruthless quest for revenge would be an exciting dynamic to put Sherlock in – all the brains and deductive skills in the world can’t save you from a speeding bullet.
“Unfortunately, no. I confess that I am surprised and disappointed. I expected something definite by this time. Wiggins has just been up to report. He says that no trace can be found of the launch. It is a provoking check, for every hour is of importance.”
- Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Sign of Four”
In our last list, we told you how the homeless network were a contemporary take on the Baker Street Irregulars (Sherlock’s band of orphan children who would assist him on cases). We thought that was as far as the references would go, until Billy Wiggins jumped into the back of Mary’s car and made a few deductions of his own.
In the original stories, Wiggins is the ringleader of the Baker Street Irregulars and Sherlock’s first point of contact with his underground information network. He may have been found in a drug den, but the grown up street urchin can certainly hold his own when it comes to the powers of deduction.
It’s just a shame that his exit was a bit abrupt, as we’d certainly like to have seen more of the character. Hopefully, he’ll be back in series 4 to lead the homeless network in the true spirit of the novels.
PASADENA, Calif. – Benedict Cumberbatch has had a memorable year, including roles in five major films, but he's trying to look forward.
"You can't get too nostalgic. You can look back and go, 'That was a great year, a great moment,' but I want 2014 to be better for different reasons. I've got personal goals and all sorts of things that I want to evolve. I always have been about building a career of longevity," he says during an interview to discuss PBS' Sherlock (third-season finale, Sunday, 10 p.m. ET/PT, times may vary).
Cumberbatch's contemporary take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic character became more personal this year, as Holmes' parents were portrayed by his mother and father — actors Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton. In one scene, Sherlock unceremoniously shoos them from the room when Watson arrives.
Working with his parents was "terrific. Sort of like home, really. Alarmingly so, for those who know our relationship off screen," he jokes. "It was a beautiful thing. ... It was the first day of shooting and I was nervous for them. And then I realized, now I really have to take control of this, and I just started to kind of make sure that they felt all right. And they ended up having a really good day."
He credits his parents and actors they introduced him to for his desire to pursue the same career, but there "wasn't one Saul-on-the-road-to-Damascus moment of inspiration. It was just an accumulation, really."
That has led to an accumulation of significant roles, too, for the London-born actor.
Cumberbatch, 37, finished work in December on The Imitation Game, an upcoming film in which he plays real-life British mathematician and World War II code breaker Alan Turing.
He plans to take on another real Brit, the explorer Percy Fawcett, in The Lost City of Z, a film about "this rather brilliant, rather lovely Victorian man who just became obsessed with this discovery he made in the Amazon jungle" in the early 20th Century. The melancholy Dane, Hamlet, is on the actor's schedule for fall on the London stage.
And Sunny March, the production company he started with friends just produced a short film that he appears in, Little Favour.
All of this comes on the heels of a remarkable year. Since May, he has appeared on the big screen in five major films, including an Oscar best-picture nominee,12 Years a Slave; an ensemble piece earning praise for its cast, August: Osage County; a lead role as Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate; and two blockbuster sequels, Star Trek Into Darkness and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. It can be difficult, even for a man of Cumberbatch's quick intelligence, to remember every detail.
"Five films come out and they're so different. From Khan (Trek) to Smaug to Julian Assange to Ford (Slave) to …," he says, pausing. "You see, this is the problem. I actually then start forgetting what the other role was. (Another pause.) To Little Charles in August: Osage County. And that's when it is literally an embarrassment of riches."
He credits Sherlock, which premiered in 2010, with providing a big career boost, but says he was landing roles for 2011 productions — War Horse and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy on film and Frankenstein at the Royal National Theater in England — at about the same time with major directors who hadn't seen him play the iconic sleuth.
Sherlock has "done a lot. I won't say it's changed my life, because I had a huge break at the same time as this role first came to fruition," says Cumberbatch, substituting a sleek blue suit for Sherlock's layered look on this warm winter day. "It was a sort of perfect storm of all mediums coming together at the same time, television, film and theater, even some radio."
Cumberbatch has a rare star quality that makes viewers root for the often difficult Holmes, Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat says.
"I think he's capable of being aloof and dangerous and (being able to) do, with complete honesty, every beat of unlikable behavior, and yet you still like him," he says. "The other thing you have to say is he's one of the best actors alive. He's absolutely supreme."
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By LOUISE SAUNDERS
PUBLISHED: 08:10 EST, 19 August 2013 | UPDATED: 08:58 EST, 19 August 201
He is usually polished to perfection in his role as dapper detective, Sherlock Holmes.
But it appeared to be a case of down and out in Baker Street for Benedict Cumberbatch as he got to work on set looking uncharacteristically scruffy.
The 37-year-old actor was on location in Cardiff, Wales, alongside Sherlock co-star Martin Freeman, shooting scenes for the hotly-anticipated third season of the BBC detective drama.
Benedict's hair was looking a little out of place, and he seemed to be sporting a little facial hair as he went in disguise as a tramp.
By contrast, Martin, 41, looked smart in a plaid button-down shirt and cardigan, with his hair swept to the side.
Meanwhile, Benedict appeared a little agitated at the presence of numerous photographers on set, telling the snappers to stay away as they filmed the final episode of the series.
The Sherlock star, bundled up in a hooded coat and sunglasses, held up a sign saying: 'Go photograph Egypt and show the world something important.'
PUBLISHED: 01:59 EST, 16 August 2013 | UPDATED: 01:59 EST, 16 August 2013
It seems like Lucy Liu and Jonny Lee Miller are having a ton of fun filming their TV show Elementary.
The 44-year-old actress was seen walking her chocolate Labrador around the set in New York on Thursday while Johnny could not contain his laughter while filming with his co-star.
Lucy swapped her ankle boots for some flats when she walked her beautiful dog in between takes flanked by security guards.
Wearing a dapper grey blazer, stripped shirt, navy blue pants and brogue shoes, Jonny tried to hail down a New York taxi for his co-star as the pair filmed on a bustling street.
Eventually, he was successful but in between takes the two actors laughed and joked with one another as they were surrounded by crew members.
Elementary is CBS's contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes tales in which Jonny plays the fabled detective himself.
While Liu plays an alternative style Dr Watson opposite him.
Sean Pertwee is to join Jonny Lee Miller, Rhys Ifans, and Natalie Dormer as the latest Brit in CBS' Sherlock Holmes show, Elementary... Elementary has nabbed itself a bit of a UK acting dynasty (well, dynasty might be somewhat grand a term for the family, but his dad did play both The Doctor and Worzel Gummidge) by casting Sean Pertwee as Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Lestrade.
Absent thus far from Elementary's New York-set proceedings, Lestrade is one of a flurry of Conan Doyle characters introduced at the tail-end of season one and the beginning of season two. First came Sebastian Moran, then Irene Adler, and Moriarty, next is Holmes' brother Mycroft, and with him, Sean Pertwee as Inspector Lestrade. The character, often depicted somewhat mockingly in the Conan Doyle stories, consults Holmes on various cases, and has won his professional reputation based largely on Holmes' deductions.
With the entire nation seemingly obsessed with live episodes of their favourite shows of late, there is one BBC hit drama that won’t be jumping on the bandwagon – Sherlock!
We can only imagine this is good news to the show’s main star, Benedict Cumberbatch, as he has recently revealed that he has terrible trouble remembering his lines.
Mark Gatiss, the writer of the modern-day twist on the famous novels of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has revealed in no uncertain terms that the cast of the show, which is in the production stages of its third much-anticipated series, will not be put under the live camera spotlight.
According to the Radio Times, when asked at the recent Paris Comic Con if a live episode of the show would ever be considered, Gatiss replied:
“Not for Sherlock! I’m going grey just at the prospect! Absolutely not.”
However, he didn’t seem quite so reluctant when the same question was asked about his other hit series, Doctor Who, replying:
“I seem to remember Russell harbouring a desire to do a live Doctor Who. ‘Forty-five minutes to save the world!’ I remember David [Tennant] blanching when he was telling me about it, even though we’d done The Quatermass Experiment… It’s possible.
“It would probably have to be a very contained thing where the Doctor was trying to get out of a lift or something.”
But, whilst a live episode hasn’t been ruled out for Doctor Who, it seems the public cries for the 12th Doctor to take a leap into modern times by being black, female or both, might be.
Sherlock Holmes will be taking a trip when Elementary returns in the fall.
The CBS drama is heading to London, the home of the original Holmes, to film the second-season premiere.
In the episode, the first to be shot outside New York, Holmes, the brilliant, eccentric detective played by Jonny Lee Miller, journeys back to his former home to look at an old case and, in the process, runs up against his past. Watson (Lucy Liu), the companion who keeps him grounded, learns more about Holmes before he moved to New York.
"We couldn't be more excited to have this opportunity to see Sherlock's old stomping grounds and take a closer look at a life that, until now, we've only been able to glimpse through the lens of his recovery," executive producer Robert Doherty said in a statement accompanying the filming announcement. "By meeting old friends and revisiting prior cases, Watson will gain even more insight into Holmes. She'll have to keep up with a Sherlock who is both more comfortable in his surroundings and even bolder in testing the limits of those around him."
Jonny Lee Miller, Lead Actor in the Hit TV Drama Elementary, Will Run His First Ever Ultra-Marathon to Raise Funds for Research and Treatment of Sanfilippo Syndrome
"As if running 50 miles wasn't enough, Jonny appeared on The View to promote the race and joined my family and me for an interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN. He has set up a Twitter account to send links on how to donate to his effort on crowdrise," said Weishaar.
Jonah is currently in good health, but Jill Wood, his mother and the co-founder of JJB, says he and other Sanfilippo children are in a race against time. Despite the existence of 7,000 rare diseases and an increasing patient population, the federal government has allocated few funds to the research of these diseases. The science behind the four research programs with which JJB is presently involved is being driven by patient groups and advocates.
The donations raised by Jonny's race effort will help tremendously, and will be put towards finding treatments and a cure.
About Jonah's Just Begun-Foundation to Cure Sanfiliipo Inc.
Jonah's Just Begun -- Foundation to Cure Sanfilippo Inc. is a 501(c)3. JJB raises funds and then distributes them to academic researchers focused on Sanfilippo Type C. We have two goals: first, to drive the science that will ultimately lead to a cure for Sanfilippo Type C; and second, to raise awareness for all rare diseases. We also empower and encourage others affected by rare diseases to advocate for cures.
Benedict Cumberbatch is fierce towards his opponents while filming a nighttime scene for his television show Sherlock on Wednesday (April 10) in London, England.
Earlier in the day, the 36-year-old star of the show was spotted filming with his cast mate Martin Freeman.
“Exclusive: second episode of #Sherlock S3, written by Steve Thompson entitled The Sign of Three.” the Sherlockology Twitter account updated – very exciting!
