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I've spent the first part of the year digging away at his life to write the new biography Benedict Cumberbatch: Behind the Scenes. I found someone who's got a class-defying desire to succeed. A man whose job very nearly got himself killed in a South African car-jacking. And a man who's professional life hides a very real sadness at home.
Rarely has the comedy and drama output of UK television been in such rude health, and I speak as someone who helped whittle down the longlists of 30 or so programmes in each category to a shortlist on which our members (made up of people who write about TV and radio) could vote.
Classics: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Heirloom Collection) Prompted by my appreciation of the excellent trio of Benedict C...
The Town might not garner worldwide attention like Sherlock. But let's hope that TV, theatre and film producers keep calling on Scott. He richly deserves the same accolades and opportunities as his mega-star Sherlock cast mates.
For years outraged adults have rallied in the cry against sex and violence on TV, lambasting that the corruption of youth runs solely from the all-enc...
Many, many people will have seen the finale of series two of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's gripping Sherlock. However, and this isn't to say I didn't absolutely love it, I gradually noticed more and more story similarities between Sherlock, specifically in their Hounds of Baskerville episode and then more so in The Reichenbach Fall, and Christopher Nolan's Batman films. And here's why...
Stephen Moffat has a gift for taking well-known characters I personally couldn't be arsed about and making them incredibly engaging. Prior to him and Russell T Davies taking over, The Doctor was just a time travelling showband singer to me, and Sherlock a tweed-wearing wielder of a cartoonishly large magnifying glass. Now I wouldn't miss either show for the world.
