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Post by matthewsee on Feb 20, 2012 19:12:46 GMT -5
Elementary is the contemporary US version of Sherlock Holmes akin but unrelated to the BBC’s Sherlock (the BBC has even warned the makers of Elementary for it not to be a carbon copy of their series). Sherlock Holmes in Elementary will be played by Jonny Lee Miller. Just as Sherlock was created by Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat and fellow Who writer Mark Gatiss, Elementary is from someone from the other side of the Doctor Who-Star Trek spectrum with the Elementary pilot written by Star Trek: Voyager writer Robert Doherty. Doherty is also executive producer alongside Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly. www.tvtonight.com.au/2012/02/jonny-lee-miller-as-us-sherlock-holmes.html
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 6, 2012 20:52:18 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on May 21, 2012 5:24:29 GMT -5
Preview: www.tvtonight.com.au/2012/05/elementary-preview.htmlThis is what Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat had to say to Digital Spy about Elementary: “What we did with our Sherlock was just take it from Victorian times into modern day. “They’ve got three big changes: it’s Sherlock Holmes in America, it’s Sherlock Holmes updated and it’s Sherlock Holmes with a female Watson. I wonder if he’s Sherlock Holmes in any sense other than he’s called Sherlock Holmes?” “I don’t want it to sound like [co-creator] Mark [Gatiss] and I don’t want other people to try this,” he explained. “We welcome it, but don’t damage the brand.”
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 29, 2012 20:45:30 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 30, 2012 0:19:20 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 30, 2012 20:08:44 GMT -5
In an interview with the Big Finish Magazine, Vortex, writer David Stuart Davies was interviewed about the Big Finish audio adaptation of his Sherlock Holmes story The Tangled Skein in which he made the comment of not doing something ridiculous like making Watson a woman.
The aforementioned issue of Vortex is dated January 2012 and it came before Lucy Liu was cast as the female Watson in Elementary two months later in March.
Quite prophetic remarks from Davies about a female Watson!
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 2, 2012 23:57:20 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 25, 2012 19:02:09 GMT -5
Elementary has been given a full season order.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 14, 2013 18:53:33 GMT -5
From Digital Spy: John Hannah has signed on for a role in Elementary.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 23, 2013 23:50:08 GMT -5
Elementary makes its Australian TV debut on 10 on Sunday February 3 8:30pm.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 27, 2013 21:40:51 GMT -5
From Digital Spy: Jill Flint has signed on for a guest role in Elementary.
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 5, 2013 17:03:39 GMT -5
Elementary has been renewed for a second season.
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 17, 2013 19:03:33 GMT -5
Natalie Dormer will appear as Irene Adler in Elementary.
Saw Jonny Lee Miller on The View and as Elementary was talked about the question was asked about whether there would any romance between his Holmes and Joan Watson and he was emphatic in saying that would not happen as the relationship between Holmes and Watson is sacred making the latter into a woman does not change that.
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 14, 2013 0:13:41 GMT -5
Risk Management: Antepenultimate episode of season 1. Quite an unusual situation of Sherlock having Moriarty as a client in which the latter asked the former to investigate the murder of a mechanic. The episode title as well as about the management of risks but that of a risk management company the founder of which has become the subject of Sherlock's investigation. It is a good mystery but the best part of the episode comes at the end with the appearance of Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer) setting the scene for the two-parter that ends the first season. Risk Management being the scene setter episode to the two-parter that ends the season made me think of Doctor Who: Turn Left as it also performed that same function for the season that it was in.
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 19, 2013 3:25:48 GMT -5
The Woman: Penultimate episode of season 1. The episode title refers to Irene as it mixes flashbacks of Sherlock's history with her with the present day. The flashbacks were interesting to look at but the shock came with the identity of Moriarty and I can only imagine what Arthur Conan Doyle would have thought about this revelation.
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