Mark Gatiss has confirmed that the upcoming Sherlock special will take place in 1895.
The one-off episode had already been confirmed to be set in the Victorian era, but fans had questioned in which exact year it would take place.
"I can correct something that has been misreported," Gatiss told BBC News. "The series is set in 1895, not 1885."
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman will return as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, but it will be a one-off episode set in the past and will not be connected to the usual BBC One series.
When asked whether the ten years between 1885 and 1895 makes a difference, Gatiss replied: "It does, you wait and see, all the difference."
1895 was the year in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle attempted to kill off Holmes in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, only to later resurrect the character after a public outcry.
The year also features in the poem 221B,...
The one-off episode had already been confirmed to be set in the Victorian era, but fans had questioned in which exact year it would take place.
"I can correct something that has been misreported," Gatiss told BBC News. "The series is set in 1895, not 1885."
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman will return as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, but it will be a one-off episode set in the past and will not be connected to the usual BBC One series.
When asked whether the ten years between 1885 and 1895 makes a difference, Gatiss replied: "It does, you wait and see, all the difference."
1895 was the year in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle attempted to kill off Holmes in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, only to later resurrect the character after a public outcry.
The year also features in the poem 221B,...
- 4/21/2015
- Digital Spy
'Sherlock Holmes' movie found at Cinémathèque Française (image: William Gillette in 'Sherlock Holmes') Sherlock Holmes, a long-thought-lost 1916 feature starring stage performer and playwright William Gillette in the title role, has been discovered in the vaults of the Cinémathèque Française. Directed by the all-but-forgotten Arthur Berthelet for the Chicago-based Essanay production company, the approximately 90-minute movie is supposed to be not only the sole record of William Gillette's celebrated performance as Arthur Conan Doyle's detective, but also the only surviving Gillette film.* In the late 19th century, William Gillette himself wrote the play Sherlock Holmes, which turned out to be a mash-up of various stories and novels featuring the detective, chiefly the short stories "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Final Problem." ("May I marry Holmes?" Gillette, while vying for the role, telegraphed Conan Doyle. The latter replied, "You may marry or murder or do What you like with him.
- 10/3/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Feature Anastasia Klimchynskaya 30 Jan 2014 - 07:00
The BBC's Sherlock has a legion of fans - but Sherlock Holmes has always been a cultural phenomenon...
After almost two years of waiting (which is almost as long as John Watson had to wait for the return of his supposedly dead best friend), the BBC chose to announce the series three premiere date for Sherlock... by driving a hearse around London during rush hour. Eschewing the traditional channels of interviews, Twitter, and the media, they chose to rely solely on the fans’ dedication to the show to find said car and spread the news.
It worked.
In fact, now that the third season of Sherlock has just passed, that’s probably old news, but it’s nevertheless telling of the hype that surrounds Sherlock. Fans turned up for the (albeit pre-announced) event, and the news went viral. For that kind of publicity, a...
The BBC's Sherlock has a legion of fans - but Sherlock Holmes has always been a cultural phenomenon...
After almost two years of waiting (which is almost as long as John Watson had to wait for the return of his supposedly dead best friend), the BBC chose to announce the series three premiere date for Sherlock... by driving a hearse around London during rush hour. Eschewing the traditional channels of interviews, Twitter, and the media, they chose to rely solely on the fans’ dedication to the show to find said car and spread the news.
It worked.
In fact, now that the third season of Sherlock has just passed, that’s probably old news, but it’s nevertheless telling of the hype that surrounds Sherlock. Fans turned up for the (albeit pre-announced) event, and the news went viral. For that kind of publicity, a...
- 1/28/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
A new record has been set for American literature sold at auction, and it belongs to none other than the master of mystery and the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe.
NPR reports that a worn and stained first-edition of Edgar Allan Poe's first book "Tamerlane and Other Poems" was sold at auction by Christie's for $662,500. The work is so rare that in some of the stories about the auction, a Christie's expert is quoted as referring to it as "the black tulip of U.S. literature." No more than 50 copies were printed in 1827; only 12 are thought to still exist. A copy of "Tamerlane" held the previous auction record for American literature, selling for $225,000 about 20 years ago.
Poe claimed to have written the work before he turned 14; it was published when he was 18 and the author was identified only as "A Bostonian."
Christie's website provided some background on the book as...
NPR reports that a worn and stained first-edition of Edgar Allan Poe's first book "Tamerlane and Other Poems" was sold at auction by Christie's for $662,500. The work is so rare that in some of the stories about the auction, a Christie's expert is quoted as referring to it as "the black tulip of U.S. literature." No more than 50 copies were printed in 1827; only 12 are thought to still exist. A copy of "Tamerlane" held the previous auction record for American literature, selling for $225,000 about 20 years ago.
Poe claimed to have written the work before he turned 14; it was published when he was 18 and the author was identified only as "A Bostonian."
Christie's website provided some background on the book as...
- 12/4/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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