Showing posts with label SHERLOCK HOLMES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SHERLOCK HOLMES. Show all posts

Saturday, April 5, 2025

TRAILER AND AIR DATE FOR SHERLOCK AND DAUGHTER PERIOD SET TV SERIES WITH DAVID THEWLIS AND DOUGRAY SCOTT

 SHERLOCK & DAUGHTER SERIES 
TRAILER WITH DAVID THEWLIS AND AIR DATE
 I announced last winter that CW has ordered an eight part mini series SHERLOCK & DAUGHTER and the latest news is that it will premiere April 16th. It will also air on Discovery +
New series will air on CW over in USA
in UK as their first ever drama series. It has also been sold to Scandinavia and to SBS in Australia.  Check out the trailer below.
 
  THE STORY
David Thewlis stars as Sherlock Holmes who is put out of his comfort zone, mysteriously unable to investigate a sinister case without risking the lives of his closest friends. Enter: young American Amelia (Blu Hunt). After her mother’s mysterious murder, she learns her missing father may be the legendary detective. Despite wildly different backgrounds and attitudes, the pair must work together to solve a global conspiracy, crack her mother’s murder, and find out for sure if she really is Sherlock’s daughter. Dougray Scott stars as Holmes’ nemesis, Moriarty. It will be a light crime series not overly dark so that it can air in prime time around the world.
 

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES SERIES TRUE SHERLOCK TO BE TOPLINED BY OLI HIGGINSON AND WILL KEMP

     TRUE SHERLOCK   
NEW TV SERIES HAS CAST ANNOUNCED
We are getting yet another TV series based on Arthur Connan Doyle's famous detective hero Sherlock Holmes. Harry King Television will start production on TRUE SHERLOCK next January with Oli Higginson already cast as Sherlock and Will Kemp as Moriarty. Based on Nicholas Sercombe’s book series The Unexpurgated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes this new series will depict the origins of Holmes, Watson, Mrs Hudson, and Professor Moriarty. Sercombe will also be the showrunner!

Friday, December 13, 2024

SEE FIRST POSTER FOR SHERLOCK AND DAUGHTER PERIOD SET TV SERIES WITH DAVID THEWLIS AND DOUGRAY SCOTT

 SHERLOCK & DAUGHTER SERIES 
FIRST POSTER WITH DAVID THEWLIS
 I announced last winter that CW has ordered an eight part mini series SHERLOCK & DAUGHTER and the word around the town is that it will premiere this January. It will also air on Discovery +
New series will air on CW over in USA
in UK as their first ever drama series. It has also been sold to Scandinavia and to SBS in Australia. 
 
  THE STORY
David Thewlis stars as Sherlock Holmes who is put out of his comfort zone, mysteriously unable to investigate a sinister case without risking the lives of his closest friends. Enter: young American Amelia (Blu Hunt). After her mother’s mysterious murder, she learns her missing father may be the legendary detective. Despite wildly different backgrounds and attitudes, the pair must work together to solve a global conspiracy, crack her mother’s murder, and find out for sure if she really is Sherlock’s daughter. Dougray Scott stars as Holmes’ nemesis, Moriarty. It will be a light crime series not overly dark so that it can air in prime time around the world.
 

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

HERO FIENNES TIFFIN TO LEAD GUY RITCHIE'S YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES TV SERIES FOR AMAZON'S PRIME VIDEO

  HERO FIENNES TIFFIN  
TO LEAD YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES SERIES
As Variety reports, Amazon's Prime Video has ordered an eight episode series on YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES with Hero Fiennes Tiffin in the title
Hero Fiennes Tiffin will take the lead
role. Guy Ritchie is set to adapt and direct the series based on Andy Lane's popular long series of novels. This action-packed origin story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective will be an explosive re-imagining of this iconic character. At age 19, Sherlock Holmes is disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed, when he finds himself caught up in a murder mystery at Oxford University which threatens his freedom. Diving into his first-ever case with a wild lack of discipline, Sherlock manages to unravel a globe-trotting conspiracy that will change his life forever.

Thursday, February 15, 2024

DAVID THEWLIS AND DOUGRAY SCOTT TO LEAD SHERLOCK & DAUGHTER PERIOD SET TV SERIES ORDERED AT CW

 SHERLOCK & DAUGHTER SERIES 
WITH DAVID THEWLIS AND DOUGRAY SCOTT
CW has ordered an eight part mini series SHERLOCK & DAUGHTER in which David Thewlis is Sherlock Holmes who is put out of his comfort zone, mysteriously unable to investigate a sinister case without risking the lives of his closest friends. Enter: young American Amelia (Blu Hunt). After her mother’s mysterious murder, she learns her missing father may be the legendary detective. Despite wildly different backgrounds and attitudes, the pair must work together to solve a global conspiracy, crack her mother’s murder, and find out for sure if she really is Sherlock’s daughter. Dougray Scott stars as Holmes’ nemesis, Moriarty.

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

BAKER STREET IS USING UNDERAGED GANGS TO HELP SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE FIRST TEASER FOR NETFLIX PERIOD SET SERIES THE IRREGULARS! STREAMING DATE AND PHOTOS

   THE IRREGULARS TEASER  
NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES SERIES
Irregulars are out this March at Netflix
Here to launch your new week is the first and rather cheap and unimaginative teaser for eight episode period set series THE IRREGULARS which will stream on Netflix from March 26th as a creepy (the original poster is actually so bizarre and sick that I decided not to promote it here at the spy's so I'm giving you the second one which isn't much better but at least it is not scandalous and evil) new version of Sherlock Holmes whom we don't see in the teaser, but we do have first photos showing the rest of the cast, namely a gang of Victorian street teens who are manipulated into solving a series of crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson
Harrison Osterfield is the leader of the Irregulars Leopold
(who is now, of course, blackwashed and played by Royce Pierreson) and his mysterious business partner, Sherlock Holmes (Henry Lloyd Hughes). 

THE IRREGULARS ARE SET IN
Victorian London, and they follow a gang of troubled street teens who are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his
Royce Pierreson is the blackwashed and suitably woke Watson
mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes. As the crimes take on a horrifying supernatural edge and a dark power emerges, it'll be up to the Irregulars to come together to save not only London but the entire world.

WHO IS IN THE GANG?
The cast also includes Thaddea Graham as Bea, Darci Shaw as Jessie, Jojo Marcari as Billy,  Mckell David as Spike and  Harrison Osterfield in the
The series was created by Tom Bidwell who is also executive producing
lead role of Leopold the leader of the Irregulars, with Clarke Peters as The Linen Man. Aidan McArdle is famous Arthur Conan Doyle's character, Inspector Lestrade.

Monday, October 5, 2020

SPOTLIGHT ON LAVISH NEW PERIOD SET RUSSIAN DETECTIVE SERIES SHERLOCK: THE RUSSIAN CHRONICLES AND FERRARI LEGEND

 NEW SHERLOCK TV SERIES
 THE RUSSIAN CHRONICLES
Two TV delights coming from Mother Russia for you this weekend, starting with SHERLOCK THE RUSSIAN CHRONICLES (Шерлок в России)
Sherlock in Russia streams from October 22nd
which hits Russian streamer Start.ru from October 22nd!  The eight episode series will see Maksim Matveyev playing famous detective Sherlock Holmes who is chasing a killer over in 1880's Saint Petersburgh. The high end series is directed by Nurbek Egen
 
SHERLOCK: THE RUSSIAN CHRONICLES sees Sherlock Holmes travelling to Russia alone, without his close friend Watson, in order to catch Jack the Ripper, whom Sherlock has been chasing from the U.K. Watson can’t travel with Holmes, since the good doctor was wounded by Jack the Ripper a few days prior to his escape. Sherlock writes to Doctor Watson from Russia
The eight episode series was shot last year
every day. In these letters he tells his friend about his experience in Russia and his impressions of the country. Things don’t go according to plan, of course… In Russia, he meets Doctor Kartsev (Vladimir Mishukov), from whom he
Maksim Matveyev takes the lead role of Sherlock in the new series
rents a room. Dr. Kartsev starts helping him solve very strange, confusing, and complicated crimes, and Holmes is once again forced to convince law enforcement authorities of the correctness of his deductive methods of investigation. Irina Starshenbaum plays Sofia who helps them in their work.

FERRARI LEGEND
PERIOD SET RUSSIAN SERIES
Legend Ferrari aired in January in Russia
Another Russian detective series that I have for you today already aired on their NTV earlier in January. 12 episode saga FERRARI LEGEND (Легенда Феррари) has a plot which is pure fantasy, set in Crimea, summer 1920. After the unsuccessful attempt on the life of Baron Wrangel (Alexandar Buharov) and the death of the agents of the intelligence department of the Red Army, the Bolsheviks need a new cunning plan to implement the "Crimean Mission". The best agent is appointed to this case - Elena Golubovskaya (Olga Pogodina), who is fluent in five languages. In Crimea,
Olga Pogodina plays the lead role in the series
Golubovskaya appears already as El Ferrari - a gifted Italian poet, born in St. Petersburg. Her task is not only to physically eliminate Wrangel in order to demoralize the White Army, but also to lead the operation to steal the gold
The series was shot in Krimean capitol Sevastopol
treasury of the White Guards. All plans are unexpectedly hampered by the German Maximilian Ermler (Pavel Delong), a journalist for one of the local newspapers, who turned out to be an agent of British intelligence.

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

HENRY CAVILL, SAM CLAFLIN AND HELENA BONHAM CARTER REVEALED IN THE FIRST TEASER FOR ENOLA HOLMES! PLUS THE STREAMING DATE

     FIRST TEASER FOR
HENRY CAVILL'S ENOLA HOLMES
Netflix has released first teaser with Millie Bobby Brown as ENOLA HOMLES alongside her big brothers Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, played by Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin, in a film which follows Sherlock Holmes'
Enola Holmes will stream on Netflix from September 23rd
younger sister Enola who, when her mother disappears, decides to become a super-sleuth in her own right. Running away to London where she establishes
Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin lead the male part of the cast
a clandestine private detective career specializing in missing persons investigations, Enola must also keep ahead of her brothers who are determined to capture and force her to conform to their expectations. 
  September Airing Date on Netflix
 Helena Bonham Carter also stars as Eudoria Holmes, Enola's, Sherlock's, and Mycroft's mother. The film will stream on Netflix from September 23rd!
The movie is currently being sued by Arthur Connan Doyle's estate
As you've probably heard the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle is suing the production because they've changed the essence of Holmes turning him into a kind man instead of a brash and arrogant detective that he always was.

Friday, June 19, 2020

HENRY LLOYD HUGHES & ROYCE PIERRESON ARE EVIL SHERLOCK AND WATSON IN NETFLIX PERIOD SET SERIES THE IRREGULARS!

'THE IRREGULARS'
TURNS SHERLOCK UPSIDE DOWN
I'm not sure how this one escaped my attention before, but I'm guessing it is better late than never and it is, admittedly, still in production: new TV series THE IRREGULARS will pair up Henry Lloyd Hughes and Olivia
Henry Lloyd Hughes will be Sherlock Holmes
Grant again after they played a married couple in Indian Summers. Nine episode Netflix crime mystery period set series will be based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the Baker Street Irregulars (boys who worked as intelligence agents) working for Dr Watson saving London from supernatural elements.

The Plot
The series will be written by Oscar nominated writer Tom Bidwell (Netflix and BBC One's Watership Down) and will focus on the Baker Street Irregulars, a gang of street children who in canon helped Sherlock Holmes gather evidence for his cases. However, it will turn this
Royce Pierreson will be Doctor Watson
traditional relationship upside down, portraying the Irregulars as a "gang of troubled delinquent teens who are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner", while Holmes takes credit for their success. The series will also feature supernatural elements, as the Irregulars realize they are up against a dark forces that threatens not only London but "potentially the entire world. With Henry Lloyd Hughes as Sherlock Holmes and Witcher's Royce Pierreson as Dr John Watson,it will have  Clarke Peters, Thaddea Graham, Darci Shaw, Jojo Macari, McKell David and Harrison Osterfield also in the cast of the series which started shooting in September and was supposed to work till May but had its production stopped with only two more weeks left to shoot.

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

SAM CLAFLIN JOINS HENRY CAVILL AND HELENA BONHAM CARTER IN ENOLA HOLMES MOVIE ABOUT SHERLOCK'S SISTER!

SAM CLAFLIN JOINS
Whom do you think will Sam Claflin play?
HENRY CAVILL IN ENOLA HOLMES
You already know that, beside the leading role in the epic fantasy series The Witcher for which we've released first photos yesterday, our dearest Henry Cavill is also set to play Sherlock Holmes in ENOLA HOLMES and now he is being joined in it by another of our absolute British faves Sam Claflin! While Henry Cavill is taking on the role of the iconic detective in the big screen adaptation of Nancy Springer’s series of mystery novels about Sherlock's sister Enola, Helena Bonham Carter is set to play Enola’s mother. The series, which includes six novels, revolves around mysteries investigated by Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes’
Henry Cavill will lead the cast as Sherlock Holmes!
much younger sister Enola, who proves to be a highly capable detective in her own right. Adeel Akhtar, Fiona Shaw and Susan Wokoma are also starring. It isn't known yet whom Sam will play.