26 March,2011 07:28 AM IST | | The Hitlist Team
A contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories, and co-created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the new Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as his loyal friend, Doctor John Watson. Rupert Graves plays Inspector Lestrade.
The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain - they live at the same address of 221B Baker Street, have the same names and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them.
Steven Moffat says: "Conan Doyle's stories were never about frock coats and gas light; they're about brilliant detection, dreadful villains and blood-curdling crimes. Other detectives have cases, Sherlock Holmes has adventures, and that's what matters."
The first episode: A study in pink
The police investigate the deaths of a series of people who all appear to have committed suicide by taking a poisonous pill. They turn to their unofficial consultant, Sherlock Holmes, who deduces various elements pointing to a serial killer. Meanwhile, Holmes is introduced to John Watson, and the pair immediately move into a flat in Baker Street. After a series of incidents, the person responsible for the deaths, a taxicab driver, reveals that his victims took their own lives by playing a game of Russian roulette with two pills: one fatally poisonous, the other safe. Watson shoots the "cabbie", who reveals as he dies that Moriarty masterminded the entire plan.
Sherlock airs
Saturdays 8 PM
On: BBC entertainment
