Year: 2010

Thursday’s “plainer sight” news

29 July 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Thursday’s “plainer sight” news

29 July 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Theatre

British TV

US TV

Question of the week: who’s your favourite Sherlock Holmes?

28 July 2010 Rob Buckley 13 Comments

Quite an easy one this week, but with so many possible interpretations of the character, it would be interesting to see if there’s much of a spread or if everyone’s going to say ‘Jeremy Brett’:

Whose portrayal of Sherlock Holmes is your favourite?

You can have any portrayal on stage or screen (or any other medium you care to think of, of course) in any story, original or otherwise. You can even have guest appearances on other shows (such as on the holodeck on ST:TNG). As an aide memoire, IMDB has a full list of portrayals – there’s 231 listed, but that doesn’t include the likes of House, of course.

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog

UK TV

Review: Sherlock 1×1

28 July 2010 Rob Buckley 14 Comments

In the UK: Sundays, 9pm, BBC1/BBC1 HD

Sherlock Holmes is one of those classic characters who gets revived with incredible regularity. You can’t go for more than five years without yet another Sherlock Holmes remake. Sometimes, he gets revived in Victorian times (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes), sometimes he’s Victorian and gets transplanted to modern times (Sherlock Holmes Returns), sometimes you get a modern day version of him but in another genre (House) and sometimes you just get him in modern times.

Steven Moffat, showrunner of Doctor Who, has also given in to this latter temptation with Sherlock. This sees Benedict Cumberbatch as modern day consulting detective Sherlock Holmes meeting Afghanistan war hero Dr John Watson in 2010, and running around modern day London, solving crimes in his usual ways – but also texting a lot.

When asked what the difference between Sherlock and Doctor Who was, our Stevie said “Sherlock‘s on an hour later” – and that’s about right.

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