US Version Of Modern Day Sherlock Holmes Gets The Green Light

[Brendon Connelly]

Without any involvement from Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss or the makers of the BBC's Sherlock, a show built on essentially the same principles is in the works for US TV. I reported on it before, saying:

Sherlock has proven to be a considerable hit ? or at least, a smash within its reach. In the US, the show was aired on BBC America, a channel that simply can?t compete with the big networks.

So there?s definitely room for one of these same big networks to muscle in on the game and launch their own modern take on Holmes.

Which is exactly what CBS are planning.

And their plans are progressing, with Deadline revealing that the network have given the green light for a pilot to be shot.

There's more info too. The show, which is being written by Medium alum Robert Doherty, sees Sherlock relocated to modern New York. Instead of calling it Holmes, which is what I was personally expecting, they've gone for Elementary.

Way back in 2000, Touchstone TV at ABC tried to pilot a modern day Holmes, also called Elementary. That time the writer was Josh Friedman, and the location was San Francisco, but the idea was more or less the same. So we can't, really, say that the BBC got there first. And until we see Doherty's show, we can't say who got there best.

But, honestly, the last thing I think I need right now is more Sherlock Holmes.

[KrampusKringle]

In the States, Sherlock aired on PBS's Masterpiece Mystery, not BBCA.

[Joe Kalicki]

They've been updating Sherlock to modern times since at least the 40s, so I don't know why you're really pushing this issue.

[Scavenger]

eh, 1) BBC Sherlock is highly overrated, so there's that. 2) BBC Sherlock isn't original, so there's that. 3) this isn't a us version of that, but just a us modern sherlock, which we've already had for 7 years on fox

[zetomenon]

the Moffat show revealed to me how much the Holmes concept has defined the genre as a whole.
Now we're in the age of super-forensic cops (a concept originated in UK with the original Silent Witness and Wire In The Blood - concepts copied with CSI and Criminal Intent/Minds) a modern day American Holmes was going to happen. But my point about genre is that it already has, so i'm not sure what they have to sell.
The problem for the producers is that The Mentalist is already there doing the basics of it - super intelligent/knowledgeable consultant to police hunting his own Moriarty in Red John - and that's already on CBS

[ampersand]

We have House MD. It's the American Sherlock... Played by a Brit...

[ahlhelm]

And of course, we had Law & Order: Criminal Intent for how many years? Modern Sherlock as a cop with a female Watson.

Also, Elementary as a title will confuse tons of people.

[Joe Kalicki]

And of course, we had Law & Order: Criminal Intent for how many years? Modern Sherlock as a cop with a female Watson.

Also, Elementary as a title will confuse tons of people.

It does seem like something on PBS that kids would be bored by.

. . . I miss 3-2-1 Contact.

[Meyeraustin]

"Set in New York City"

wow. You know there are other cities besides New York and LA.

[Dawnelldo]

"Set in New York City"

wow. You know there are other cities besides New York and LA.

Yeah, like Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Detroit..etc.