“What do you make of this Watson?” New Scotland Yard for sale Forced to save a heap of money – its budget has been slashed – the Metropolitan Police has put New Scotland Yard up for sale. It’s not the building Holmes would have been familiar with. You can read the BBC News story here. …
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News Bulletin 100
“Have there been any fresh developments?” asked Holmes Elementary Countdown! Only one more day to go until Elementary reaches our screens (Sky Living on Tuesday 23October 2012 at 9pm). To help while away the time, here’s a short preview video. Sky Living is also repeating the show at 8pm the following day (24th). There’s a …
News Bulletin 99
“Ah! I expected it. Look here!” Elementary, my dear Joan The scene is set in New York, not Baker Street. Dr. Joan Watson, played by Lucy Liu, has been hired by Sherlock Holmes’ British tycoon father to act as his son’s 24-hour sober-living companion. Watson has some baggage herself, she’s a disgraced former surgeon. In …
News Bulletin 98
“Quick, quick, or it’ll be too late!” NTV AWARDS – VOTE NOW! Here’s your chance to vote for the BBC series Sherlock and its two lead stars in the 2013 National Television Awards (NTV) for the UK. You can cast your vote for Sherlock for Best Drama and for either Benedict Cumberbatch or Martin Freeman …
News Bulletin 97
“Let me have the date” The pilot episode of the US produced series Elementary will premiere in the UK on Tuesday 23 October 2012 at 9pm on Sky Living. On BBC Radio4’s daily arts programme Front Row on Friday 28 September Boyd Hilton discussed Elementary, which stars Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy …
News Bulletin 96
“-and behold the result!”* Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle, edited by Jon Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower, was published on Tuesday 25 September 2012 by the British Library (Hardback, 368 pages, £25). In February 1880, when Arthur Conan Doyle was only twenty years old, he embarked upon ‘the first …
News Bulletin 95
“It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter” Sherlock fails to deliver Despite being nominated for thirteen awards at this year’s Emmys , the BBC’s Sherlock has come away empty handed. It failed to collect anything at the Craft Awards on Saturday evening, and the luck was still out …
News Bulletin 94
“Anything else?” asked Holmes, yawning. “Oh, yes, plenty.” Mayday Mayday is changing! Our newsletter Mayday Mayday is switching from a monthly to a bi-monthly publication, with effect from the current issue (no. 120, September 2012). This means that in future there will be five issues per year, instead of ten as heretofore. Issues will now …
News Bulletin 93
“Texas, I Think” Dallas is returning to our TV screens this evening (Channel5 at 9pm, Wednesday 5 September). This got us thinking about some of the things Larry Hagman got up to in the days before he struck oil playing JR Ewing. It was in 1976 when he played the role of an incompetent police …
News Bulletin 92
“An extraordinary assortment!” Man on the moon Sad to hear the news today that Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon has died (25 August 2012), aged 82. Holmes maintained that if the earth travelled round the sun or the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to him …