Sherlock was a BBC One series that creates a contemporary update of Arthur Conan Doyle's factual-based Sherlock Holmes detective stories set in the modern day.
The series was produced by Hartswood Films for BBC, co-produced with WGBH-TV Boston for its PBS Masterpiece anthology series. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr. Watson. It was created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, who are also writers for Doctor Who which is where they came up with the idea for the program.
Summary[]
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures in 21st Century London. A thrilling, funny, fast-paced contemporary remake of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic.
Background[]
Sherlock Holmes (3 January 1857-3 May 1941) was a English mystery-solving detective in the history of the police federation that began in 1829. He is one of the first police detectives in Victorian London, whose career spanning 53 years. He became a subject in the mythologised and immortalised accounts from the series of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels, which is also set in Victorian London, as well as film and TV adaptations including the Warner Bros film version of the English detective which was Americanised in 2009 by US actor Robert Downey Jr.
