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Sherlock sits like this because Sherlock is clever
TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 9th July 2015
This method of sitting and style of leather armchair is in the public domain and thus no iteration of Sherlock Holmes can claim it as its sole intellectual property. They only didn't use it in Mr Holmes because Ian McKellen is like ninety and he couldn't manage it without his knees cracking.
(NB no, Google Images doesn't have any pictures of Robert Downey Jr's Holmes sitting like this. My point still stands.)
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Sherlock: The Sign of Three
TV Review | Ed Williamson | 5th January 2014
The marked increase in comic touches in the New Year's Day episode pointed the way and tonight we got it: a flat-out Sherlock comedy. A wedding comedy, no less, with a bungling best man to boot. I enjoyed it a lot, but I couldn't help thinking it's hard to get away with this sort of thing when you're only doing three episodes every two years.
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Christmas TV shows and their Christmas present equivalents
TV Feature | Rob Young | 23rd December 2013
A while back I said to Ed we should do something about Christmas telly, like a rundown of what's on over the festive period. And he said, in a J. Jonah Jameson kind of way: "We need a gag, you fool; a reason for it to exist!" I imagine he was smoking a cigar at that point. So here is that reason. I've scoured the pages of the Sunday Times' two-week Christmas Culture magazine to find the best/funniest/stupidest things on television. And I'm going to compare them with Christmas presents. Stay with me: this is definitely a thing.
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What we've learnt from these Sherlock series three pictures
TV Feature | Rob Young | 6th December 2013
Sherlock and his scarf return to our screens on January 1st. And it's been a long time coming. Seriously, it was bloody ages ago when we all watched him lob himself off that building. Ahead of his return the BBC have teased and tantalised us with a whole host of pictures. But what do they mean?
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Sherlock Holmes in The Case of the Dull Episode Titles
TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 15th January 2013
Before Elementary, American TV had only one Sherlock Holmes series, back in the 1950s. Its episode titles suggest a Holmes less preoccupied by heroin, iPhones and Vinnie Jones.
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Top 20 TV shows of 2012
TV Feature | Ed Williamson, Matt Looker, Luke Whiston, Rob Young | 2nd January 2013
We spent 2012 doing what we do best: watching TV and putting off writing about it. And my stars, the things we've seen. If only there were some way to convey our preferences of one thing over another through hierarchical structuring. Wait a minute ...
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Whatever you do, don't Google image-search 'Sherlock manga'
TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 15th September 2012
I heard someone had made a Sherlock manga, so I went looking for it. Now I can never unsee this. -
Comic-Con round-up: The Man Who Wasn't There
TV News | Ed Williamson | 16th July 2012
San Diego Comic-Con 2012 happened this weekend, and all sorts of new trailers and announcements were unveiled. I couldn't go, as the State of California requires me to be more than 200 yards away from Emily Blunt at all times. It was all a big misunderstanding: I wasn't hiding under her car; I was just looking under it for my contact lens.
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DVD weekly: faked deaths, wizards and trains
TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 24th January 2012
Now Megaupload's been taken offline, it's time to stumble bleary-eyed into HMV again and wander up and down the DVD aisle, thinking, "Shit, I used to pay for these, didn't I? How does that work again?" [insert legal disclaimer here]
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Is everyman Martin Freeman actually EVERY man?
TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 4th January 2012
Martin Freeman, we are told in every review of everything he's ever been in, from the BBC's Sherlock to his local Mecca Bingo, is an everyman. But is he ...? (*tension music*)
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