Yep he was great. As was Lucy Lui 
Yes. There was even a BBC show years ago which featured Dr Bell & Doyle in the Holmes & Watson style roles.
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They’re both fantastic. I love those shows!
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I’d agree with this. I didn’t make it all the way through season 7, just lost interest, but the early seasons were superb.
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There’s two other Sherlockian shows coming our way this year.
Sherlock & Daughter
Filmed in Ireland, this upcoming mystery series created by Brendan Foley, features Holmes (David Thewlis) becoming embroiled in a malevolent conspiracy involving his archenemy Professor Moriarty (Dougray Scott), and ending up joining forces with Amelia Rojas (Blu Hunt), a young Native-American woman whose mother was recently murdered. As they work together to crack the case, Amelia also sets out to prove that the great detective is her long lost father. The series is due to air later this year on the CW Network in the US, whilst Discovery+ will air the series in the UK.
Young Sherlock Holmes
A series based on DW author Andrew Lane’s books, directed by Guy Ritchie (returning to the world of Holmes) that will be released on Amazon Prime later in 2025. The series follows a 19-year-old Sherlock Holmes who becomes involved in a murder at Oxford and uncovers a conspiracy, and has recently finished filming across the UK, including Cardiff, Monmouth, Bristol, and (unsurpisingly) Oxford. Playing Holmes is Hero Fiennes Tiffin (Tom Riddle in ‘The Goblet of Fire’), with his uncle Joseph Fiennes and Natascha McElhone playing Holmes’ parents, Donal Finn as Moriarty, and Max Irons as Mycroft.
Oh and ‘Enola Holmes 3’ starts filming in April 2025.
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Have spent the afternoon with @MarkyMark playing ‘221b Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes & The Time Machine’, based on the classic SH board game, in which Holmes and Watson use Herbert G Wells’ Time Machine to investigate real US crimes.
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I’ve seen the first episode of Sherlock & Daughter. Alarm bells rang at the sight of the CW logo, but I was entertained. It’s nice to see a new Holmes show set during the period & while not up to the standard of BBC period dramas it looks OK even if some visual techniques are a bit laboured.
What I really liked about it was David Thewlis’ Holmes & Blu Hunt as Amelia. I originally thought she would be Irene Adler’s daughter but the show has gone down a different route. Presenting her as an indigenous American with a mother who had a highly intelligent scientific mind adds a new flavour. The issues of class & racism are hinted at in this first episode though not sure how deep the show will go into exploring that. Hunt may come across as too modern but it works against the personality of her possible father.
Thewlis is a very good Holmes. We find him here in a more reclusive mode due to circumstances. He’s even more dismissive of those around him & reluctant to engage in detective work. There’s an ongoing mystery here involving recurring red threads at crime scenes, linked to the abduction of Watson & Mrs Hudson by some unseen individual/gang as a warning to Holmes to keep his distance.
Holmes purists may not like this show, & it may not be the best adaptation but as a Holmes geek I think this first episode is an entertaining spin on Doyle’s creation.
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Sounds very interesting! I’m looking forward to whenever the show becomes available in Germany—hopefully sooner rather than later. 
(Don’t fancy the VPN route or other ‘alternative’ means of watching shows, so I’ll just have to wait. 
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I should continue reading the Sherlock Holmes books. I was advised to start with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes but I started with A Study in Scarlet and even if I liked a lot the first part, the second part was a little bit meh and underwhelming.
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I would say A Study in Scarlet is atypical of the Doyle stories, there were only 4 novels the majority are short stories which are probably the better place to start.
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Oh very fair, I know some amount of people who start with Hound just due to it’s comparative fame, but I think adventures really is the best place to start and it’s worth giving it a few stories before forming a firm opinion.
A Study in Scarlet and the Valley of Fear have their merits, but they aren’t representative of the rest of the canon.
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i do like the novels as well, but i agree withg the others who have said that the short stories may be a better place to start - even though i enjoy the longer ones, they can drag on a little and i think you do need to know the characters / canon a little better to be able to give them the best chance
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Applications about to open up for a upcoming Sherlock fanzine
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Short stories are, indeed, the norm for Conan Doyle’s wonderful original Holmes tales but, I wonder, has anyone else read any of the Sherlock Holmes novels by Bonnie MacBird? I read her first (Art in the Blood) and was delighted to find a really rich and well written story. I’ll definitely be checking out more of these.
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Oh yes, I love all of these- there are a lot of Sherlock Holmes pastiches out there but these are probably my favourite (the hardbacks also all very pretty together on a shelf)
I’d definitely recommend the rest
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I haven’t read that one but I have read a few other non-Doyle stories. I enjoyed both of Anthony Horowitz’s Sherlock novels. There have been quite of few newer adventures over the years. Some take the character off into very different directions such as The Last Sherlock Holmes Story which, like a few other movies & novels have done sees Holmes investigate the Jack the Ripper murders (the wiki page is not one to look at if you don’t want plot spoilers). We’ve even see him go up against Dracula & Mr Hyde.
The American screenwriter & director Nicholas Meyer has written a few one of which, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, was adapted into a movie also by Meyer. I’d recommend both.
Michael Chabon’s novella The Final Solution is also worth reading. Set in the 1940s the eldery retired detective is never named as Holmes. But it’s Holmes.
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Me too. Great fun!
I loved Art in the Blood and it sounds like the others are just as good.
I’ve meant to get hold of The Seven Percent Solution for quite some time. Thanks for the recommendations. 
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Many thanks, @LucyBA. Not chatted with you before but you seem like a person with consummate taste and refinement. Always good to find another admirer of the estimable great detective AND a Doctor Who fan to boot. Pleased to make your acquaintance.
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