Sherlock - BBC1

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Halb

53,012 posts

183 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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Because it's very cuppa tea, amenable, bland telly, it's not cutting edge with texts and video tape!!

57 Chevy

5,410 posts

235 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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So that's Dr Who and Sherlock, wonder what Steven Moffat will ruin next?

Edited by 57 Chevy on Friday 20th January 14:59

Balmoral

40,891 posts

248 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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Give him a shot at BBC News.

Morningside

24,110 posts

229 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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Balmoral said:
Give him a shot at BBC News.
His version would look like The Day Today.

K12beano

20,854 posts

275 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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Morningside said:
Balmoral said:
Give him a shot at BBC News.
His version would look like The Day Today with all the funny bits taken out.
...just to be clear

SHutchinson

2,040 posts

184 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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On reflection, I still find the ending really cringeworthy. The monologue from Johns wife about "my Baker street boys..." with them jumping through a fancy doorway. What was it even all about. I guess they'd just ran out of script or something so just winged it.

Six Fiend

6,067 posts

215 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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Morningside said:
kowalski655 said:
bingybongy said:
Riley Blue said:
Father Brown is on BBC1 at 1:45 week days and is far better than Sherlock.
Why it's hidden away when it would make perfect early Sat evening or Sunday afternoon viewing is a mystery Sherlock would be unable to solve.
Thanks Riley
And I agree it would be ideal evening programming
It really is a brilliant Sunday night viewing option. I have no idea what the BBC thinks sometimes. Maybe it doesn't fit in with the cooking/singing st that seems to dominate these days.
Father Brown, Dr Blake, The Coroner (a bit like Midsomer-on-Sea being in Cornwall) - all decent afternoon viewing which would be plenty good enough to chill out with on a Sunday evening.

ITV have it right with Endeavour and the lovely WPC Trewlove (Dakota Blue Richards).

p1stonhead

25,541 posts

167 months

Friday 20th January 2017
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I dug out the first series and watched a couple over the last week to see if I did dislike series 4 so much due to some plain old nostalgia for something amazing that wasn't there.

Nope. They early episodes are just great! Captivating and just plain brilliant.

It's even more of a shame it's gone this way after seeing these again.

NBTBRV8

2,062 posts

208 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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I watched it last night and thought it was very poor. Overall a disappointing series for me.

gregs656

10,876 posts

181 months

Tuesday 24th January 2017
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I caught up with this last night.

Absolute rubbish. No idea what forces Moffat to take straight forward but interesting ideas and turn them into convoluted rubbish. Shame.

anonymous-user

54 months

Saturday 7th April 2018
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Has Martin Freeman joined the cast of East Enders ?
Looks to have been filmed on the set


Disastrous

10,081 posts

217 months

Saturday 7th April 2018
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I don’t think so.

NBTBRV8

2,062 posts

208 months

Sunday 8th April 2018
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No news on another series?

Beefmeister

16,482 posts

230 months

Sunday 8th April 2018
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With them both firmly entrenched in the Marvel Cinematic Universe it’s looking highly unlikely. I believe they’re both in Avengers 4 as well, plus other filming projects.

I doubt the BBC could afford them now.

RichB

51,566 posts

284 months

Sunday 8th April 2018
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To be honest I think Sherlock had run it's course. The last few episodes were very poor compared to the first series.

chris watton

22,477 posts

260 months

Sunday 8th April 2018
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RichB said:
To be honest I think Sherlock had run it's course. The last few episodes were very poor compared to the first series.
Yes, I have the first three series on DVD, but have only watched the last series when it was aired, it was awful and seemed to disappear up its own back passage.

Countdown

39,864 posts

196 months

Sunday 8th April 2018
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chris watton said:
RichB said:
To be honest I think Sherlock had run it's course. The last few episodes were very poor compared to the first series.
Yes, I have the first three series on DVD, but have only watched the last series when it was aired, it was awful and seemed to disappear up its own back passage.
Like somebody else said, they have just made it way more complicated than it needs to be. The original stories stand the test of time pretty well, and by all means give them a modern tweak to bring them up to date, but things like making Dr wWatson's wife a stone-cold ninja killer push the programme beyond the realms of plausibility.

Halb

53,012 posts

183 months

Sunday 8th April 2018
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It was generally a decent programme, I always had issues with some of it, but at the start, it was more 90/10, that slid slowly until we got to that very silly last ep, where it was more 20/80



Sherlock is done so much...but I don't tire of him, I would like something new though. I utterly enjoyed the Ian McKellen film, but not sure if that could be a serial. I'd hate to see the RDJ version as a weekly thing (similar to those crappy ones on Alibi). I'd like a version of SH that showed all aspects of his life/personality, that's what the BBC one got right. Like Sopranos/Wire, with an arc over 10 episodes. I suppose only HBO/Netflix has the cash for that, and writers too it seems.

K12beano

20,854 posts

275 months

Sunday 8th April 2018
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Have to agree with the majority here. Dead horses best not be flogged.

So where was Freeman photo’d and what for????

anonymous-user

54 months

Sunday 8th April 2018
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K12beano said:
Have to agree with the majority here. Dead horses best not be flogged.

So where was Freeman photo’d and what for????
I'm going to be honest I just posted it for a bit of a late April fool. I saw it in an article with his ex partner and thought looks like EastEnders I was going to suggest he and "Claire from STEPS" were both joining EastEnders cast. Then thought that would be too obvious.
It was just a bit of fun no offence intended.
The articles here with the picture I nicked:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/celebrity/...

Which is taken from the original here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5586895/Sh...

My wife thought this line particularly unfortunate "Amanda began by spreading herself out around the house she and Martin used to share,"
My wife also did used to genuinely confuse her with Claire from STEPS when the show was on TV

Anyway its brought some debate back about Sherlock if nothing else. I still think the Brett Sherlock is the best ever myself.