Elementary

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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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Top 20 TV shows of 2013

TV Feature | Ed Williamson, Matt Looker, Rob Young, Luke Whiston, Iain Robertson, Neil Alcock | 31st December 2013

In years to come, we will remember 2013 as the year everything changed. Danny Dyer is now in Eastenders, and across the land all else has ceased to matter. But look upon the works of this medium, now so wholly transformed, and you will see more than this. And you might think it handy that some berk put it all in a list and bid you read it.

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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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My favourite arguments on Wikipedia TV show talk pages

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 16th April 2013

Wikipedia talk pages are a rare kind of douchebag magnet, in that they offer a platform of legitimacy for some of the very worst people on the internet.

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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.

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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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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'sâ€”"
"CUT!"
"Oh, sorry, force of habit."

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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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Holmes and Watson are basically just going to do it, then

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 27th September 2012

Just because you say it, doesn't mean it'll definitely happen, Jonny. Wait, what am I saying? I give it three episodes before they do.

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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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