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Sherlock
A view of the London skyline, with the word "Sherlock" in black letters.
GenreCrime drama
Created by
Starring
Composers
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes3 + 1 unaired pilot (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Mark Gatiss
  • Steven Moffat
  • Beryl Vertue
  • Rebecca Eaton Masterpiece
  • Bethan Jones BBC
ProducerSue Vertue
CinematographySteve Lawes
Editors
  • Mali Evans
  • Charlie Phillips
Camera setupSingle camera
Running time90 mins
Production companies
Original release
Network
ReleaseJuly 25, 2010 (2010-07-25) –
present

Sherlock is a British television series produced by Hartswood Films for BBC Wales, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series. It was created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, who wrote one episode each. Paul McGuigan directed the first and third episodes; Euros Lyn directed the second, which was written by Stephen Thompson.

It is a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr. Watson. Una Stubbs appears as their landlady Mrs. Hudson, Zoe Telford as Watson's girlfriend Sarah, and Rupert Graves as DI Lestrade.

Filming took place at various locations, including London and Cardiff. The three-part series was transmitted on BBC One and BBC HD, in July and August 2010. Critical reception has been mostly positive. These episodes, along with the unaired pilot, were released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on 30 August 2010. A second series of three 90-minute episodes is scheduled to be broadcast in Autumn 2011.

Edited versions of the BBC programmes were shown in the US on PBS stations starting on 24 October 2010 and are available for on-demand viewing from 25 October to 27 December on the PBS video portal. The DVD of the BBC series with extra materials, including an audio commentary by the creators, was released in the US in November.

Production

Development

The project is a collaboration between Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, who both had experience adapting or using Victorian literature for television.[1] Moffat had previously adapted the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the 2007 series Jekyll,[2] while Gatiss had written the Dickensian Doctor Who episode "The Unquiet Dead".[3] Moffat and Gatiss, both Doctor Who writers, discussed plans for a Holmes adaptation during their numerous train journeys to Cardiff where Doctor Who production is based.[4] The two writers are both big Sherlock Holmes fans;[5] Gatiss considers Conan Doyle to be a "genius writer", saying of the Holmes stories that "Whenever I meet someone who hasn't read them, I always think they have got so much fun to come".[5] The writers realised that someone else would have the same idea to produce a modern day version.[6] Then, while they were in Monte Carlo for an awards ceremony, producer Sue Vertue, Moffat's wife, sat them down and they started to work out how they might do it themselves.[6]

Talking about developing the show with Moffat, Gatiss says "What appealed to us about the idea of doing Sherlock in the present day is that the characters have become almost literally lost in the fog ... And while I am second to no one in my enjoyment of that sort of Victoriana, we wanted to get back to the characters and to why they became the most wonderful partnership in literature".[5] Steven Moffat also talks about returning to the core of the original stories, saying, "Conan Doyle's stories were never about frock coats and gas light; they're about brilliant detection, dreadful villains and blood-curdling crimes — and frankly, to hell with the crinoline. Other detectives have cases, Sherlock Holmes has adventures, and that's what matters".[7] Gatiss criticises recent television adaptations of the Conan Doyle stories as "too reverential and too slow", aiming to be as irreverent to the canon as the 1930s and '40s films starring Basil Rathbone.[5] In the DVD audio commentary, Moffat and Gatiss say they decided that everything that had previously been done about Sherlock Holmes was canonical: not just the Conan Doyle stories but the Rathbone and Granada Television versions.[6] Cumberbatch's Sherlock uses modern technology, such as texting, internet and GPS, to solve the crimes.[5] Paul McGuigan, who directed two episodes of Sherlock, says that this is in keeping with Conan Doyle's character, pointing out "in the books he would use any device possible and he was always in the lab doing experiments ... It’s just a modern-day version of it. He will use the tools that are available to him today in order to find things out".[8] Cumberbatch adds, "I doubt he [Holmes] uses Wikipedia much — but he uses technology as a resource".[9] This emphasis on technology is highlighted by the transformation of Holmes' original horsedrawn-carriage era catchphrase of "the game is afoot" to the more modern wording of "the game is on".

The update maintains some traditional elements of the stories, such as the Baker Street address and the evil Moriarty.[10] Although the events of the books are transferred to the present day, existing elements are incorporated into the new characters to "ground the forthcoming tales in reality, and appease ardent fans of the classic tales"; for example, Martin Freeman's Watson has returned from military service in Afghanistan.[11] When speaking to The Sherlock Holmes Society of London and discussing the fact that the original Watson was invalided home after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880), Gatiss realised that "It is the same war now, I thought. The same unwinnable war".[5]

Sherlock was announced as a single 60-minute drama production at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in August 2008,[1] to be broadcast in Autumn 2009, with the intention of producing a full series should the pilot be successful.[10] There were rumours within the BBC and wider media that Sherlock was a potential disaster.[12] However, on the DVD audio commentary, the creative team say that the BBC were "very happy" with the pilot, but asked them to change the format.[6] The BBC decided not to transmit the pilot, as is common industry practice, but commissioned three 90-minute episodes.[13] The pilot, says journalist Mark Lawson, was "substantially expanded and rewritten, and completely reimagined in look, pace and sound."[12] On 10 August 2010, it was confirmed that Sherlock had been renewed for a second series, which is scheduled for broadcast in Autumn 2011.[14]

Casting

A drawing of Sherlock Holmes smoking a cigar
Sherlock Holmes in a 1904 illustration by Sidney Paget

Benedict Cumberbatch was cast to play Sherlock Holmes. "Cumberbatch", says The Guardian, "has a reputation for playing odd, brilliant men very well, and his Holmes is cold, techie, slightly Aspergerish".[15] Cumberbatch says "There's a great charge you get from playing him, because of the volume of words in your head and the speed of thought – you really have to make your connections incredibly fast. He is one step ahead of the audience, and of anyone around him with normal intellect. They can't quite fathom where his leaps are taking him".[15] For the role, he learned some violin-playing techniques, such as how to hold the bow.[15] The role of the detective inspired Cumberbatch to analyse people's characteristics and behaviour: "You can't help but cast an eye round you and think about people and the explanation that might lie behind the exterior show ... you can't help it. That indentation where a wedding ring should be, the dynamics of families. People in a moment of isolation, certain things do stick out. It's an achievable superpower"[15] Piers Wenger, Head of Drama at BBC Wales, describes the eponymous character as "a dynamic superhero in a modern world, an arrogant, genius sleuth driven by a desire to prove himself cleverer than the perpetrator and the police — everyone in fact".[10] Addressing changing social attitudes and broadcasting regulations, Cumberbatch's Holmes has replaced the pipe with multiple nicotine patches.[8]

In an interview with The Observer, co-creator Mark Gatiss says that they experienced more difficulty finding the right actor to play Dr. John Watson than they had for the title character.[5] Producer Sue Vertue says, "Benedict was the only person we actually saw for [the part of] Sherlock ... Once Benedict was there it was really just making sure we got the chemistry for John [Watson] – and I think you get it as soon as they come into the room, you can see that they work together".[14] Steven Moffat recalls that Matt Smith was the first person to unsuccessfully audition for the role of Watson. Smith's characterisation in the audition was too "barmy", more appropriate for Holmes, and the producers required someone "straighter" for Watson.[16] Shortly after rejecting Smith for Dr. Watson, Moffat, who had then recently assumed the role of executive producer and head writer of Doctor Who, cast him as the Eleventh Doctor.[16] Several actors auditioned for the part of John Watson,[6] with Martin Freeman eventually cast in the role. The writers say that Freeman's casting developed the way in which Cumberbatch played Holmes.[6] Journalist Victoria Thorpe says "Freeman's dependable, capable Watson unlocks this modern Holmes, a man who now describes himself as "a high-functioning sociopath".[5] Gatiss asserts the importance of achieving the correct tone for the character. "It's important that Watson is not an idiot, although it's true that Conan Doyle always took the piss out of him," said Gatiss. "But only an idiot would surround himself with idiots".[5] Another commentator, from The Herald, points out that Freeman's incarnation of Watson seems brighter than the version portrayed by Nigel Bruce in the 1940s.[8] Moffat says that Freeman is:

the sort of opposite of Benedict in everything except the amount of talent. Benedict is a magnificent exotic animal as an actor ... He doesn’t look like a normal person; he rarely plays normal people. He plays exceptional people. But Martin finds a sort of poetry in the ordinary man. I love the fastidious realism of everything he does. I believe everything he does. It’s brand new on every take.[6]

Some dialogue in the first episode suggested that in this version the character Sherlock Holmes is homosexual. For instance, Holmes responds to Watson's query about his relationship status with "Girlfriend? No, not really my area". Their landlady apparently believes they are a couple, informing them "There’s another bedroom upstairs … that is if you’ll be needing one".[17] Steven Moffat denied any sexual relationship is implied between the two,[18] while Cumberbatch says that they "do allude to the idea that there may be a 'misunderstanding' from other people who think we're a couple".[17] Moffat continued, "It's just that thing of two blokes hanging around together living together — in this nice modern world it leads to people saying, 'Oh, are they a couple?' And that's nice. I thought how the world has changed, there is no disapproval. How much more civilised the world has become".[19]

Rupert Graves was cast as DI Lestrade. The writers referred to the character as "Inspector Lestrade" during development until Gatiss suddenly realised that in the modern world the character would have the title "Detective Inspector". Moffat and Gatiss point out that Lestrade does not appear all that often in the novels and is quite inconsistent in them. They decided to go with the version who appeared in The Six Napoleons: he’s a man who is frustrated by Holmes but admires him, and who Holmes considers as the best person at Scotland Yard.[6] Several actors auditioned for the role in a comedic manner, but the creative team appreciated the gravitas that Graves brought to the role.[6]

Andrew Scott made his first appearance as Jim Moriarty in "The Great Game". Moffat says, "We knew what we wanted to do with Moriarty from the very beginning. Moriarty is usually a rather dull, rather posh villain so we thought someone who was genuinely properly frightening. Someone who's an absolute psycho".[14] Moffat and Gatiss were originally not going to put a confrontation into these three episodes between Moriarty and Sherlock, but realised that they "just had to do a confrontation scene. We had to do a version of the scene in The Final Problem in which the two arch-enemies meet each other".[20] The remainder of the regular cast include Una Stubbs as Mrs. Hudson, Louise Brealey as Molly Hooper, Vinette Robinson as Sgt Sally Donovan, Zoe Telford as Sarah, and co-creator Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes.[21] Guest appearances include Phil Davis as Jeff,[22] Paul Chequer as DI Dimmock,[23] Gemma Chan as Soo Lin Yao,[23] John Sessions as Kenny Prince,[24] Haydn Gwynne as Miss Wenceslas,[24] and Peter Davison as the voice-over in the planetarium.[20]

Recording

A low-angle photograph of the corner of a street with the "Baker Street" sign
Some scenes in the pilot were filmed at Baker Street in central London,[25] although North Gower Street was mainly used for the location of Holmes' residence.[26]

The show is produced by Hartswood Films for BBC Wales.[1] BBC Worldwide has also provided co-production funding.[27] PBS-funded company Masterpiece co-produced the series.[28][29] The pilot was filmed in 2009.[6] Filming on the pilot began in January 2009 on location in London and Cardiff. The single production acted as a pilot for a potential full series. It was written by Moffat and directed by Coky Giedroyc.[30] A seven-hour night shoot took place on 20/21 January at the No Sign bar in Wind Street, Swansea. The bar had been redesigned as an Italian restaurant for the shoot, where Holmes and Watson ate.[25] Location managers selected the bar as the venue for the scene because they needed a building that could conceivably double as an Italian restaurant that was close to an alley.[31] Cumberbatch also shot a scene outside the bar with Phil Davis playing a taxi driver, with whom Holmes has an altercation. On 21 January, scenes were shot in Newport Road, Cardiff. Location shooting concluded on 23 January with scenes filmed in Baker Street, London.[25] During that week, filming was also done on location in Merthyr Tydfil.[32] For the series, the location shots for 221B Baker Street were filmed at 185 North Gower Street.[26] A BBC spokesperson said they wanted to film on Baker Street but were thwarted by heavy traffic,[33] and the number of things with "Sherlock Holmes" on them they would have had to have disguised.[20]

In July 2009, the BBC drama department announced plans for a further three 90-minute episodes, to be broadcast in 2010.[34] Moffat had previously announced that if a series of Sherlock was commissioned, Gatiss would take over the duties of executive producer so that he could concentrate on producing Doctor Who.[1] One episode being developed by Gatiss is set entirely in a disused sewage works.[35] Production is based at Hartswood Films' Cardiff production unit, Hartswood Films West, which was opened in late 2009 to take advantage of the BBC's planned Cardiff Bay "drama village". Some filming took place at Upper Boat Studios, where Doctor Who has been filmed.[36] Filming on the series commenced in January 2010. Paul McGuigan directed the first and third episodes and Euros Lyn directed the second one.[37][38] The three episodes were filmed in the reverse order than in which they were broadcast.[20]

Costumes for the pilot were designed by BAFTA Cymru-award winning costume designer Ray Holman.[39] Cumberbatch wore a £1,000 Belstaff coat in the series.[40] Sarah Arthur, the series' costume designer, explained how she achieved the detective's look. "Holmes wouldn't have any interest in fashion so I went for classic suits with a modern twist: narrow-leg trousers and a two-button, slim-cut jacket. I also went for slim-cut shirts and a sweeping coat for all the action scenes – it looks great against the London skyline".[40]

The productions suffered various problems. Filming took place during one of the coldest winters in Britain for 30 years, causing discomfort to the cast.[20] Freeman recalls: "It was so cold, my mind started to freeze - and this is a dialogue-heavy show with lots of lines to remember. I was struggling to say my words".[41] Freeman hurt his wrist on his third day on set, after slipping on the steps of the location caravan, and Cumberbatch contracted "potentially fatal" pneumonia halfway through filming.[41]

The writers say that they didn’t want to force the modernity of the world onto the story.[6] There were some creative challenges, such as the decision to include the sign "221B" on Holmes' front door. Gatiss and Moffat reflect that in the modern world the door would only display the number of the house, and there would be doorbells for each flat. However, the full house number is so iconic that they felt that they could not change it.[6] The writers also decided that the lead characters would address each other by their first names, rather than the traditional Holmes and Watson.[6] Director Paul McGuigan came up with the idea of putting text messages on the screen instead of having cut-away shots of a hand holding the phone.[6]

Episodes

Series 1 (2010)

# Title Directed by Written by UK viewers
(million) 		Share
(%) 		Original air date
1"A Study in Pink"Paul McGuiganSteven Moffat9.23[42]28.5[43]25 July 2010 (2010-07-25)
The police investigate the deaths of a series of people who all appear to have committed suicide by taking a poisonous pill. They turn to their unofficial consultant, Sherlock Holmes, who deduces various elements pointing to a serial killer. Meanwhile, Holmes is introduced to John Watson, and the pair immediately move into a flat in Baker Street. After a series of incidents, the person responsible for the deaths, a taxicab driver, reveals that his victims took their own lives by playing a game of Russian roulette with two pills: one fatally poisonous, the other safe. Watson shoots the "cabbie", who reveals as he dies that Moriarty masterminded the entire plan. This episode closely parallels the first full Sherlock Holmes story A Study in Scarlet.[41]
2"The Blind Banker"Euros LynStephen Thompson8.07[42]25.5[45]1 August 2010 (2010-08-01)
Sherlock is hired by an old friend to investigate a mysterious break-in at a bank in the City. He discovers that symbols spray-painted onto an office wall are a coded message intended for an employee of the bank, who is later discovered dead in his flat. The next day, a journalist is killed and the same symbols are found nearby. Holmes and Watson follow a trail of clues that link the two dead men to a Chinese smuggling ring, who are trying to retrieve a valuable item that one of them stole. Holmes eventually cracks the coded message based on Suzhou numerals and a book cipher, but not before Watson and a female friend are kidnapped by the criminals. Holmes rescues Watson's friend but the leader of the gang escapes. After escaping, the leader of gang is in communication with her superior, who is identified by the initial "M". She is then shot by a sniper. This episode is a loose adaptation of The Dancing Men and The Sign of Four.[44]
3"The Great Game"Paul McGuiganMark Gatiss9.18[42][14]31.3[47]8 August 2010 (2010-08-08)
Sherlock is commissioned by his brother Mycroft to investigate the suspicious death of a government employee who was working on a top-secret defence project: the Bruce-Partington Project.[46] After apparently rejecting the case, Sherlock begins to be taunted by a sinister criminal who puts his victims into explosive vests and sets Sherlock deadlines to solve apparently unrelated cases, including the disappearance of a businessman, the death of a TV personality and the death of a guard of an art gallery. An assassin, the Golem, is featured in the plot. As Sherlock solves the cases, he realises that they are all linked. After clearing up the case of the civil servant that Mycroft offered him, Sherlock tries to force his unseen adversary to reveal himself. The show ends with a tense stand-off between Sherlock and his nemesis Moriarty, who reveals himself as the consulting criminal who arranged the crimes that Sherlock has had to solve. In the stand-off Sherlock has a gun pointed at Moriarty but in the final seconds of the episode Sherlock turns the aim of the gun to the bomb on the floor.

Series 2 (2011)

The BBC has confirmed series 2 will air in Autumn 2011. The second series, like the first, will consist of three 90 minute episodes[48][49]

Broadcast and reception

In May 2010, The Sun tabloid newspaper reported that the pilot episode, reported to have cost £800,000 to make, will not be shown on British television. It quoted an unnamed BBC source as saying, "The stories [in the series] are now more intricate and detailed, so they basically had to start again".[13] A BBC spokesperson stated that making pilot episodes that are not for broadcast is normal practice in the television industry.[50] However, it was included as a special feature on the DVD release of the series.[12]

The first episode, "A Study in Pink", was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on 25 July 2010 simultaneously on BBC One and BBC HD.[51] The remaining episodes were broadcast on the following two Sundays. In the United States, PBS stations broadcast the series under the Masterpiece banner, after BBC Worldwide signed a co-production deal with WGBH Boston.[28] The episodes were broadcast on PBS from 24 October 2010.[52] Sherlock was broadcast on October 18, 2010, by the Nine Network in Australia,[53][54] SVT in Sweden, NPO in the Netherlands, NRK in Norway, VRT in Belgium and DR in Denmark. The latter four sales were made by BBC Worldwide at the 2010 MIPTV Media Market.[55] On 18th September, "Sherlock" premiered on Channel One in Russia (however, the series' title was renamed to "Sherlock Holmes")[56].

The show opened to critical acclaim, with excellent reviews from many respected analysts. The first episode rated highly on the Appreciation Index, meaning that viewers thought very highly of the programme.[57][58] The Observer said that the show resembled "a cross between Withnail and I and The Bourne Ultimatum, there is also a hint of Doctor Who about the drama; hardly surprising, since it has been written and created by Doctor Who writers Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat".[5] The Guardian's Dan Martin said, "It's early days, but the first of three 90-minute movies, "A Study In Pink", is brilliantly promising. It has the finesse of Spooks but is indisputably Sherlock Holmes. The deduction sequences are ingenious, and the plot is classic Moffat intricacy. Purists will take umbrage, as purists always do. But Sherlock has already done something quite remarkable; it's taken television's Sunday night and made it sexy".[59] However, Sam Wollaston, also for The Guardian, was concerned that some elements of the story were unexplained.[60] Tom Sutcliffe for The Independent also suggests that Holmes was "a bit slow" to solve the case, but his review is otherwise positive. He wrote, "Sherlock is a triumph, witty and knowing, without ever undercutting the flair and dazzle of the original. It understands that Holmes isn't really about plot but about charisma ... Flagrantly unfaithful to the original in some respects, Sherlock is wonderfully loyal to it in every way that matters".[61]

BBC Online published several tie-in websites relating to the fictional world of Sherlock. These were written by Joseph Lidster, who had also contributed to the Doctor Who tie-in websites.[62]

After the high ratings for "A Study in Pink", the BBC were reportedly eager to produce a longer series of Sherlock.[63] Cumberbatch reported that BBC executives "really want to do more, so the question is not really if, but how and when we can do them".[64] On 10 August 2010, Sue Vertue confirmed that "there will be more [episodes]. We're having a meeting, just to sort of talk about how many and when really. Steven and Mark [Gatiss] are both busy ... Obviously Steven is doing Doctor Who as well so it's just when we are going to do them."[14] The second series of three 90-minute episodes is scheduled to be first broadcast in the UK in Autumn 2011.[65]

The show's popularity led retailer Debenhams to report a surge in enquiries for coats similar to Sherlock's. Garment manufacturer Belstaff was forced to put the wool trench coat worn by Benedict Cumberbatch back into production before the series had ended.[66] The Independent newspaper reported that "designer Paul Costelloe moved to meet the demand, offering tailored coats and scarves based on the series, while Savile Row bespoke tailor John Pearse said many of his clients were inquiring about the actors' clothes".[40] Journalist Alexis Petridis comments, "you can see why men wanted to get the look. Perhaps they noted the effect Cumberbatch, by no means your standard telly hunk, had on lady viewers ... and decided it must have something to do with the clobber. So it is that Britain's latest men's style icon is a fictional asexual sociopath first seen onscreen hitting a corpse with a stick. Surely not even the great detective himself could have deduced that was going to happen."[66] Publishers and retailers reported a 180% rise in sales of Sherlock Holmes books during the first series' broadcast.[67] Speedy’s, the sandwich shop on North Gower Street below the flat used as Holmes' residence, reported a sharp rise in new customers who recognised it from the show.[33]

Home release

A DVD (region 2) and Blu-ray Disc (region B) was released by 2entertain in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2010. It is scheduled to be released in Australia on 4 November [68] and the United States on 9 November 2010. The release includes the three episodes and several special features. "A Study in Pink" features audio commentaries by Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue, while Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and Mark Gatiss comment on "The Great Game". The release includes the unaired pilot episode, a 60-minute version of "A Study in Pink" directed by Coky Giedroyc.[69][70] Critic Mark Lawson calls the decision to include the pilot "commendable and brave".[12] The BBFC has rated the pilot and the three episodes as a 12 certificate for video and online exhibition.[71][72][73][74] The release also contains a 32-minute documentary about the production of the series, called "Unlocking Sherlock".[75]

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