Sherlock

British television program

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  • comparison to source material
    • Arthur Conan Doyle
      In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

      …such as the BBC series Sherlock (2010–2017), Adler is both a femme fatale and a decided love interest of the great detective’s. Other highlights in the collection are the eerie “The Red-Headed League,” where criminals offer a red-headed man employment copying entries from Encyclopaedia Britannica as a ruse to keep…

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role of

    • Cumberbatch
      • Benedict Cumberbatch
        In Benedict Cumberbatch: Breakthrough as Sherlock Holmes

        …in the BBC television series Sherlock, based on the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The adaptation placed the characters of the classic Victorian-era tales in 21st-century London and captured viewers’ imaginations with its contemporary Holmes, who used nicotine patches (a nod to Conan Doyle’s pipe-smoking Holmes) and was a…

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    • Scott
      • Andrew Scott
        In Andrew Scott: Sherlock and other roles from 2010

        …appeared in an episode of Sherlock, the BBC series that brought the iconic character Sherlock Holmes (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) into the 21st century. Scott played the criminal mastermind Jim Moriarty, who was based on Holmes’s traditional antagonist, Professor James Moriarty. Unlike actors who had previously portrayed the classic villain,…

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