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The BBC is to broadcast “Sherlock”, a contemporary take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s nineteenth-century novels about detective Sherlock Holmes.
The drama will retain the same iconic details from Conan Doyle’s novels, such as the Baker Street address, but will be set in London of 2009. It will be a joint project between BBC Wales, BBC1 and Hartswood Films, written by Steven Moffat (“Doctor Who”) and produced by Sue Vertue (“Coupling”). Vertue, Moffat and Mark Gatiss, who has written and starred in episodes of “Doctor Who”, will executive produce.
Benedict Cumberbatch (“Starter for Ten”) will play Holmes, and “The Office” star Martin Freeman will play Dr Watson.
Moffat said: "Everything that matters about Holmes and Watson is the same, Conan Doyle’s original stories were never about frock coats and gas light; they're about brilliant detection, dreadful villains and blood-curdling crimes.”
The hour-long drama will begin shooting in January. Other Holmes projects in the works include the Warner Brothers’ film, directed by Guy Ritchie and scheduled for UK release on 20th November. Columbia Pictures plans a comedy interpretetion of the novels set to star Sasha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell.