Another interesting series from the pen of Steven Moffat & I hope Gard gets to watch because I think he’ll like very much.
Funny enough it does fit in with the current trend in detective series of ‘get the consultant in who happens to be a bit nutty’ but this is the best of them.
Its been a hit & commissioned for a second series.
Thanks for the heads up. The BBC site won't let non-UK residents watch on streaming video. I guess I'll have to wait for DVD.
Incidentally, one of the original Holmes was played by Basil Rathbone. He was born in Johannesburg but left when his father was accused by Boers of being a British spy.
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You always get the BNP types saying how great the Carry On films because they think they’re very British films etc, but I always chuckle because Sid James who starred in so many of them was in fact South African.
Also Nigel Hawthorne who starred in Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister & the baddie in Demolish Man came from South Africa.
Thank you Ziggy for letting us know about this show and that it is good. Being a fan of British mysteries, I just stumbled on this a couple days ago. I wondered how a modern adaptation of Sherlock Holmes would turn out. Some of the recent adaptations, even those set in the Victorian/Edwardian era, seem too contemporary or improbable... I noticed that this Sherlock Holmes has some of the people involved with Dr. Who...In any event, it will air on October 24, 31 and November 7th in New Hampshire. Anyone for a viewing party?
The New Sherlock Holmes is on PBS Sunday night and can be streamed the day after on pbs.org. Also it became available on Blu-ray or DVD on November 9, 2010.
I'd love to watch it with a gang of people. I've met Mark gatiss a couple of times, and he's a stellar guy. Really creative and very nice. He co-produced the show and stars as Mycroft.
I enjoy the manner in which the show-runners are able to evoke the old Victorian flavor of Holmes, even in a contemporary setting. They pick locations that look Victorian, light things in ways that are evocative of the old London. Love it!
Another interesting series from the pen of Steven Moffat & I hope Gard gets to watch because I think he’ll like very much.
Funny enough it does fit in with the current trend in detective series of ‘get the consultant in who happens to be a bit nutty’ but this is the best of them.
Its been a hit & commissioned for a second series.
Ziggy,
Thanks for the heads up. The BBC site won't let non-UK residents watch on streaming video. I guess I'll have to wait for DVD.
Incidentally, one of the original Holmes was played by Basil Rathbone. He was born in Johannesburg but left when his father was accused by Boers of being a British spy.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it
Learned Hand
In the past men created witches: now they create mental patients.
Thomas Szasz
Relinquish liberty for the purposes of defense in an emergency?
Why? It would seem that in an emergency, of all times, one needs
his greatest strength. So if liberty is strength and slavery is weakness,
liberty is a necessity rather than a luxury, and we can ill afford
to be without it—least of all during an emergency.
F.A. Harper
You always get the BNP types saying how great the Carry On films because they think they’re very British films etc, but I always chuckle because Sid James who starred in so many of them was in fact South African.
Also Nigel Hawthorne who starred in Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister & the baddie in Demolish Man came from South Africa.
Thank you Ziggy for letting us know about this show and that it is good. Being a fan of British mysteries, I just stumbled on this a couple days ago. I wondered how a modern adaptation of Sherlock Holmes would turn out. Some of the recent adaptations, even those set in the Victorian/Edwardian era, seem too contemporary or improbable... I noticed that this Sherlock Holmes has some of the people involved with Dr. Who...In any event, it will air on October 24, 31 and November 7th in New Hampshire. Anyone for a viewing party?
The New Sherlock Holmes is on PBS Sunday night and can be streamed the day after on pbs.org. Also it became available on Blu-ray or DVD on November 9, 2010.
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I'd love to watch it with a gang of people. I've met Mark gatiss a couple of times, and he's a stellar guy. Really creative and very nice. He co-produced the show and stars as Mycroft.
I enjoy the manner in which the show-runners are able to evoke the old Victorian flavor of Holmes, even in a contemporary setting. They pick locations that look Victorian, light things in ways that are evocative of the old London. Love it!