• CBS' Elementary looking more and more like BBC's 'Sherlock' for season 2

    CBS' Elementary looking more and more like BBC's 'Sherlock' for season 2

    I know I need to get past this but hearing of the series 2 plans for CBS’ Elementary and now seeing images, it really is becoming more and more like a U.S. version of their BBC counterpart than the law allows. First, it was envisioned as a 21st century adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. Hmmm…wonder where […]

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  • Q&A with Essie Davis, star of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

    Q&A with Essie Davis, star of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

    Look out, United States, the Honourable Miss Phryne (pronounced Fry-nee) Fisher is coming to America. While Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries may not make you immediately abdicate your allegiance to Sherlock, it is, without a doubt, worth checking out in the coming months on public television. Definitely not your parents’ Miss Marple, Phryne Fisher is a […]

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  • As Inspector Lewis comes to an end, Endeavour Morse begins….

    As Inspector Lewis comes to an end, Endeavour Morse begins….

    While audiences in the States are still reeling over last nights Masterpiece Mystery broadcast on PBS of “Inspector Lewis” and the knowledge that it was the final time that Robbie Lewis would attempt to make Oxford safe, it’s time buck-up little camper and get your DVR ready for a bit of Detective Constable Endeavour Morse, […]

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  • CBS' Elementary to add Mycroft to the mix for season two

    CBS' Elementary to add Mycroft to the mix for season two

    In the case of CBS’ Elementary series, starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, I’m really going to have to get past my BBC/PBS Sherlock blinders and give it another chance this Fall when season 2 premieres on 26 September with a SkyLiving premiere approximately two weeks later. When all is said and done, it […]

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  • Q&A with Babou Ceesay; DC Alex Gray in 'Inspector Lewis' on PBS

    Q&A with Babou Ceesay; DC Alex Gray in 'Inspector Lewis' on PBS

    British born actor, Babou Ceesay, is more than ready to take his seat in the Oxfordshire police car alongside Inspector Lewis, played by Kevin Whately. As DC Alex Gray, Ceesay picks up his police notebook beginning tonight in the second installment of the 6th series of Lewis.     Ceesay, who grew up in Gambia, […]

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  • Inspector Lewis set for final run at making Oxford safe

    Inspector Lewis set for final run at making Oxford safe

    Robert ‘Robbie’ Lewis was first introduced in 1987 as Detective Inspector Endeavour Morse’s sergeant during the iconic Inspector Morse series. Inspector Lewis, the spin-off series starring Kevin Whatley reprising his role, which premiered in 2006, had Lewis promoted to Detective Inspector Morse and paired with DS Hathaway.   Unfortunately, today is the day we all […]

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  • Endeavour back for four more in 2014

    Endeavour back for four more in 2014

    The iconic Inspector Morse series that starred John Thaw not only drew large audiences when it premiered in 1987 on ITV and on PBS as part of the Mystery! series, it was hailed by critics as the definition of intelligent television. In 2006, Inspector Lewis came on the scene in a spin-off series with Kevin […]

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  • Hercule Poirot returns Sunday on ITV! Need we say more?

    Hercule Poirot returns Sunday on ITV! Need we say more?

    Last Fall, when ITV announced the go-ahead on production of the final five small screen adaptations of the Hercule Poirot stories written by the late Agatha Christie, it was not only met with mixed feelings by Poirot fans worldwide, but also from the actor who has invested 24+ years of his career playing the infamous […]

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  • The merging of Sherlock and Star Trek

    The merging of Sherlock and Star Trek

    A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Whether it was 1911, when the expression “Use a picture. It’s worth a thousand words” appeared in a newspaper article quoting newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane discussing journalism and publicity, a similar phrase in 1913 “One Look Is Worth A Thousand Words” that appeared in a newspaper advertisement for […]

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  • Benedict Cumberbatch talks Sherlock – the early days.

    Benedict Cumberbatch talks Sherlock – the early days.

    In what seems like a lifetime ago, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, both of Doctor Who fame, discussed plans for a Sherlock Holmes adaptation during numerous train journeys to Cardiff where Doctor Who production was taking place. Huge Arthur Conan Doyle fanboys, both Moffat and Gatiss were encouraged to develop the idea of introducing a […]

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