Just watched a sensational new series of Sherlock Holmes, on BBC1 TV, updated to the

[Joe Chi Minh]

present day, and seemingly not based on original stories by Conan Doyle. It's a three-parter, but I think it will be extended to many more instalments.

It's just called, Sherlock; which presented a problem for me at first, as I'm so used to you lot saying, "No shit, Sherlock!", whenever I heard him addressed by name, a part of me was taking it as sarcasm!

A reviewer, Sophie Heath of the Daily Mail Weekend, described it as "quirky, daring, darkly funny and suerbly acted, this is the surprise of the year (so far). Watch out for it.

[Fumesucker]

1. A detective named Sherlock Holmes...

That's not based on Arthur Conan Doyle's original..

That is one amazing coincidence.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

3. I think the OP meant

that the programs were not dramatizations of ACD's original tales, like the Jeremy Brett programs were, but instead are original mysteries.

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. Thank you, Geoff C.

[Fumesucker]

7. There are lots of Holmes stories that were not written by AC Doyle..

But they are most certainly based on Doyle's work.

Here are a selection of such available for free online reading that I found pretty engaging..

http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/F1597801607/F1597801607.htm

[Geoff R. Casavant]

10. Thanks, but I've already got a bunch to wade through

Right now, I'm reading Shadows Over Baker Street, an anthology of short stories combining the worlds of Sherlock Holmes and H. P. Lovecraft.

[Fumesucker]

18. Several of the stories I linked to are in that vein..

The first one is particularly so, Lovecraft and Doyle..

And another one combines Doyle's "Lost World" genre with his "Holmes" genre in a rather odd way.

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. It seems fume inhalation doesn't make for clarity of thought.

[Fumesucker]

8. And apparently some people are unable to recognize sarcasm without an explicit smilie..

[Joe Chi Minh]

13. Well, I was looking for an element of wit, but if it's there, alas, it escapes me.

[Bitwit1234]

2. We have BBC which shows reruns and orginals of Doctor Who

and a lot of other original English shows. What times does it come one I don't watch BBC regularly but we might have it. I live in the Central time zone.

[Joe Chi Minh]

6. It came on at 9 pm. Good luck.

[aquart]

9. Who played Sherlock?

Somebody named Cumberbatch is going to be doing it for PBS later this year.

[Joe Chi Minh]

15. It was Cumberpatch. And very good he is too. Oddly enough, he looks quite like

that Scottish lad who is to be deported to the US, for trial for hacking into the Pentagon's compuers.

[JI7]

11. i just finished reading all of the Sherklock Holmes stories by Doyle

i think bbc has already done episodes based on the original written stories which i want to watch.

there isn't much on tv i watch these days but i might check this out.

i'm guessing all the good shows are now on cable .

[partumanimus]

12. not based?

i just read that you muse that the new series is seemingly not based on the original series?
have you read them might i ask? the first instalment is called "a study in pink" ? the first sherlock holmes account by conan doyle is "a study in scarlet" and having just watched it myself i would say they were sticking extremely close for the most part.
perhaps the next instalments you mean? i'm not certain what they will be about.

i personally think cumberbatch's holmes is fantastic so far, would you agree?

[Joe Chi Minh]

16. Absolutely! I think it will be a sensation, as TV series go. I'm probably just plain

wrong about them not being based on his stories. I did read many of them fifty odd years ago, but don't remember much about them. I also re-read a few in a library book some months ago.

[IndianaGreen]

14. I thought Jeremy Brett's Holmes was outstanding

but there is nothing wrong with new interpretations of the character, such as the one we saw recently by Robert Downey Jr.

The same holds for the Doctor Who series. Who doesn't love the new Doctor?

I am looking forward to seeing this new version of Holmes.

K&R

:kick:

[Joe Chi Minh]

17. For a long time I thought Jeremy Brett's interpretation was way, way over-the-top,

but having recently re-read a few of the stories, I see it wasn't so much at all. Well, he does ham it up, sometimes to the point of high camp, but most of it seems true to the book.

[IndianaGreen]

19. Do you remember a very young Jeremy Brett in My Fair Lady?

He played Freddy, Audrey Hepburn's love struck boyfriend. Someone else sang the song for him, much as Marnie Nixon sang Hepburn's parts.

[Joe Chi Minh]

20. No. Unfortunately, I didn't see it.