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Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman commissioned Sherlock series 4 themselves says Steven Moffat". Several candidates took a comedic tack in their auditions, but the creative team preferred the gravitas that Graves brought to the role. Production was also co-produced by PBS, a network of public-service broadcasters in the United States, for WGBH-TV's Masterpiece Mystery!

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The Final Solution, a 2004 novella by Michael Chabon, concerns an unnamed but long-retired detective interested in beekeeping who tackles the case of a missing parrot belonging to a Jewish refugee boy. Holmes and Watson try to get Magnussen arrested, but their attempt fails, and Holmes shoots Magnussen to stop him from blackmailing Mary Watson. The detective goes without food at times of intense intellectual activity, believing that "the faculties become refined when you starve them.Its opening episode, "A Scandal in Belgravia", attracted controversy from the tabloid newspaper Daily Mail, which reported that Irene Adler's nude scene early in the episode had been met with disapproval from some viewers who were concerned that it had been shown before the 9:00pm watershed hour, before which adult-orientated content is not supposed to air.

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Another common pastiche approach is to create a new story fully detailing an otherwise-passing canonical reference (such as an aside by Conan Doyle mentioning the " giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared" in " The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"). The Empty Hearse", written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Jeremy Lovering, is the first episode of Series 3 and was first broadcast on 1 January 2014.

He sometimes used morphine and sometimes cocaine, the latter of which he injects in a seven-per cent solution; both drugs were legal in 19th-century England. A Study in Pink" and "A Scandal in Belgravia" were nominated for Emmy Awards in a variety of categories. Holmes influenced the creation of other "eccentric gentleman detective" characters, like Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot, introduced in 1920.

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Lauren Raheja, writing in the Marxist journal Nature, Society, and Thought, claims that Doyle used these characteristics to paint eastern colonies in a negative light, through their continually being the source of threats. In several stories (" The Sign of Four", " The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton", " The Man with the Twisted Lip", " The Adventure of the Empty House" and " A Scandal in Bohemia"), to gather evidence undercover, he uses disguises so convincing that Watson fails to recognise him. In " The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans", Watson says that "Holmes lost himself in a monograph which he had undertaken upon the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus", considered "the last word" on the subject—which must have been the result of an intensive and very specialized musicological study which could have had no possible application to the solution of criminal mysteries. G. Wodehouse in his novel Psmith, Journalist, which was first serialised in The Captain magazine between October 1909 and February 1910; the phrase occurred in the January 1910 instalment. Between this play and Conan Doyle's own stage adaptation of " The Adventure of the Speckled Band", Saintsbury portrayed Holmes over 1,000 times.We had to do a version of the scene in ' The Final Problem' in which the two archenemies meet each other.

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While the Fox films were period pieces, the Universal films abandoned Victorian Britain and moved to a then-contemporary setting in which Holmes occasionally battled Nazis. I also went for slim-cut shirts and a sweeping coat for all the action scenes—it looks great against the London skyline.

Although Holmes is not the original fictional detective, his name has become synonymous with the role. In 1934, the Sherlock Holmes Society (in London) and the Baker Street Irregulars (in New York) were founded. The first series holds a 93% rating at critical aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, the second holds a 94% rating, and the third series has a 91% approval rating. However, the script was revised numerous times over the course of some three decades of revivals and publications, and the phrase is present in some versions of the script, but not others. The "MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories" series of pastiches, edited by David Marcum and published by MX Publishing, has reached over thirty volumes and features hundreds of stories echoing the original canon which were compiled for the restoration of Undershaw and the support of Stepping Stones School, now housed in it.