Preview Saturday's "Green Seas" episode with an octopus as clever as Sherlock, a spider crab as heroic as Jon Snow, and rafting sea otters.
We’ve just passed the halfway point of the year and already there have been a host of gasp-inducing, scream worthy, and jump-out-of-your-chair-and-fling-your-remote-at-the-screen scenes that remind us we’re in the second Golden Age of Television. So many, in fact, that we can’t wait for December to round them all up, so here are our 10 favorite firework moments of 2017 so far.WARNING: It’s all spoilers from here on out!
While the Dracula project has yet to be cast, we put together a list of our top five actors we'd love to see play Dracula.
British thespian and otter doppelgänger Benedict Cumberbatch will executive produce and star in an adaptation of The Patrick Melrose Novels, a five-book series of semi-autobiographical tales about author Edward St. Aubyn’s traumatic childhood, heroin abuse and recovery as an adult. Melrose, the five-part limited series, will air on Showtime with Far From The Madding Crowd writer David Nicholls adapting and directing. In 2013, Cumberbatch did a Reddit AMA in which he was asked, “if you could choose to be any other literary character in an upcoming role who would it be and why?” He responded, “Patrick Melrose” but never answered the why, leaving Reddit user dayofthedead204 to twist in the wind.
On Sunday’s Season 4 finale of Sherlock, Sherlock found out more about his forgotten sister, Eurus. After discovering she was locked away in a prison fortress on a remote island, Sherlock, Mycroft, and Watson broke into the facility to find out how she’d previously escaped. Soon Sherlock, Watson, and Mycroft learned that due to her superior intellect and a brief meeting with Moriarty five years ago, Eurus had complete control over the prison.
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Sherlock Season Four premiered on New Year’s Day and despite prime Cumberbatch, the first episode was met with middling reviews, especially when you compare it to the nearly untouchable, previous three seasons. British newspaper The Guardian panned the show for “starting to feel worryingly like we are watching villains be taken to task by a mutation named Sherlock Bond.” Critic Ralph Jones lambastes the writers for sacrificing the “brainy” aspects of Holmes in favor of more and more action.
<strong>SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of last night's premiere episode of <em>Sherlock</em> Season 4.</strong> BBC One/Masterpiece's <em>Sherlock</em> made a long-awaited return to UK and U.S. television on Sunday night. In Britain, 8.1M viewers tuned in to see Benedict Cumberbatch's high-functioning sociopath sleuth reteamed with Martin Freeman's Dr John Watson after last January's one-off Victorian-age episode, "The Abominable Bride," and the Season 3 finale, "His Last Vow," three years…
Three years after the hit BBC serial’s third season — and a year removed from the one-off special “The Abominable Bride” — the dynamic duo of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are back on the case as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. A new season of three feature-length episodes commences Jan. 1 on Masterpiece on PBS, and co-creator Mark Gatiss (who also plays Holmes’s older brother, Mycroft) can’t wait for fans to start piecing together the clues following the revelation that Moriarty is dead for real … we think.
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Sherlock and Watson are looking quite dapper in this just released portrait for Sherlock Season 4.
As the dust settles from Comic-Con 2016, there is way too much news to wrap your head around. We’ve highlighted the four biggest TV stories of the event.
“Something’s coming. Maybe it's Moriarty, maybe it’s not. But something’s coming.”
Though Season 4 of the PBS drama won’t debut until 2017, a sneak peek of the new episodes was offered up during the show‘s panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Sunday.
In the meantime, fans are engaging in a little artful speculation — specifically zeroing in on the reference to a bloodhound in Arthur Conan Doyle’s story "The Adventure of the Creeping Man."
Magician and escape-artist Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle did, apparently, know each other in real life, but it seems unlikely that they solved mysteries together for however long the new Houdini and Doyle manages to stay on the air. The new hour, premiering Monday on Fox, positions Houdini (Michael Weston) as the smart-alecky American skeptic, and Doyle (Episodes’ Stephen Mangan) as a gullible believer in the supernatural: They’re opposites attracting, paired up to investigate crimes that stump the police. To demonstrate this, the duo is assigned a British police officer (Rebecca Liddiard) to keep them in line—because you just know the Brits were hiring a lot of young women in key capacities at the turn of the 20th century.
The game is on! Sherlock season four has begun filming in Merry Old England with Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular detective and Martin Freeman as his skeptical sidekick, Dr. John Watson.
Fresh off of filming their respective debuts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Benedict “Dr. Strange” Cumberbatch and Martin “Everett Ross” Freeman are officially back in action as O.G. dynamic duo Sherlock and Watson. And this time, they’re leaving the period garb at home. Steven Moffat announced today that filming has finally commenced on Sherlock’s overdue fourth season.
Jan. 21 is National Hug Day, according to Twitter, and that’s fine by us: It gives us an excuse to remember all the hugs that have moved us on TV shows over the years. After his father leaves him a second time, Will asks Uncle Phil why his dad doesn’t love him. Uncle Phil just gives him a giant hug — and tosses Will’s hat aside so he can get even closer.
We’re mere hours into the new year and the quality-TV benchmark has already been set (spoiler alert: it’s high).
After three seasons of modern-day sleuthing, why are Sherlock producers sending their famous detective back in time to Victorian-era England? “Just because we can, really.”
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With 'Sherlock: The Abominable Bride' airing Jan. 1 on Masterpiece on PBS, we rank all 9 episodes of the beloved Benedict Cumberbatch-Martin Freeman detective series, from worst to best.
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, a 90-minute special, will premiere on Friday, January 1, 2016 at 9 p.m. on Masterpiece on PBS. The special finds finds Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Dr. Watson (Martin Freeman) in 1890s London. The Abominable Bride is a one-off special; Season 4 of Sherlock will go into production in Spring 2016, though no airdate has been set.Sherlock: The Abominable Bride airs January 1, 2016 at 9 p.m. on Masterpiece on PBS.