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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.
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Auditions for Under The Dome: just look up
TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 20th August 2013
"Yes, that's good. Now can you say, 'What the fuck is that, some sort of fucking dome?' ... Yes, but more incredulous ... Fine, fine, we'll call you."
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Rhys Ifans announces Elementary role to world's press
TV News | Ed Williamson | 27th June 2013
After rumours circulated that he had been cast as Sherlock's brother Mycroft Holmes for season two of Elementary, Rhys Ifans this morning confirmed the story to members of the press outside the house in West London he shares with Hugh Grant.
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17 pictures in which The Mentalist looks like a mentalist
TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 29th April 2013
I initially thought it was terribly politically incorrect to make a TV show about a guy who was a total mentalist. Then someone told me it wasn't about that. But this seems irrefutable evidence to the contrary.
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Why doesn't Finch build a front end for The Machine?
TV Video | Ed Williamson | 12th April 2013
This is why the government didn't want it, you mug. Like you expect everyone at the NSA to deal with some cumbersome command-line interface every time they want to run a query. Stick a GUI on it with a few buttons and dropdowns if you're such a bloody genius and maybe we'll talk. -
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Beverly Hills Cop Junior to be someone other than Donald Glover
TV News | Ed Williamson | 28th January 2013
This is Brandon T Jackson, who is not Donald Glover, but has been confirmed as the non-Donald-Glover-being star of CBS's forthcoming Glover-free Beverly Hills Cop TV series. Eddie Murphy will executive-produce in a Glover vacuum and occasionally reprise his role as Axel Foley, but will not play Donald Glover's father, by virtue of Donald Glover not being in it. Donald Glover was not available for comment, but Brandon T Jackson said some shit or other.
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Christ, I'm pretty sure Vinnie Jones is playing Moriarty
TV Video | Ed Williamson | 7th January 2013
Professor James Moriarty: criminal mastermind and Sherlock Holmes's greatest opponent. Notable past interpretations have included those of Orson Welles, John Huston and Laurence Olivier. And now Vinnie Jones. -
Elementary guest star on familiar ground
TV Video | Ed Williamson | 29th November 2012
"No, Sherlock, Princeton Plainsboro will not allow you to surgically remove a man's eyes in order to cure his athlete's foot. It's—"
"CUT!"
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Person of Interest: season one – first half
TV Review | Ed Williamson | 6th November 2012
Here's a show that's been on for weeks and we haven't mentioned. Now it's off again till January. Ideal time for a review, I'd have thought. PRs take note: send me a DVD and I'll review it some time around it hitting the shelves in Oxfam.
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Elementary: season one premiere
TV Review | Ed Williamson | 23rd October 2012
Comparisons between Sherlock and this new American take on the great detective are inevitable, but it's more instructive to compare how the two shows represent their respective countries' TV-making models. Oh, and I might say whether the first episode's good or bad when I'm done trying to look clever.
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