Sherlock

[Nijholts Nuts]

I enjoyed this program a lot, I thought his relationship with the DCI was rather amusing.

[leefer]

Watched it...total pants in my view.

[Doore]

Watched it...total pants in my view.

No shi...

[leefer]

No shi...

t Sherlock.

[@MacPhlea]

The banning was done by a bloke....no offence intended if it is your brother in law or something, but he was a complete prat.

I doubt he had the balls to do it but either way your description of him is spot on

[jonny72]

I thought it was pretty good, a lot better than the film that came out last year. Quite likely the best interpretation I've seen, being set in the present helped but mostly it was the main characters coming across so well and them showing what makes them tic so clearly.

Only criticism is the same as most drama the BBC do, only 3 episodes is taking the piss. What is the point in coming up with great drama and then making fuck all episodes, whilst giving us over 100 hours of Casualty / Holby a year? It's fucking retarded.

[Doore]

I thought it was pretty good, a lot better than the film that came out last year. Quite likely the best interpretation I've seen, being set in the present helped but mostly it was the main characters coming across so well and them showing what makes them tic so clearly.

Only criticism is the same as most drama the BBC do, only 3 episodes is taking the piss. What is the point in coming up with great drama and then making fuck all episodes, whilst giving us over 100 hours of Casualty / Holby a year? It's fucking retarded.

I think its probably along the lines of the "having too much of a good thing" argument.  Alternatively, they may have made three episodes to see how it was rated.  If people liked it, they may make more.

Holby/casualty/Eastenders may be awful - indeed they are - but they do two important jobs.  They fill the airtime and they get the ratings.  This leads me to conclude that a lot of the nation's TV watchers are really rather stupid.

[Highland Robin]

I found it irritating...and the plot became subservient to establishing the strange array of characters, but maybe that will be better in subsequent episodes.  Problem is - for me anyway - Conan Doyle is very dated, and just modernising the stories does not really get round the problem.  I'll keep going with the series, though, and see....

[axs]

I quite enjoyed it but am hoping the next will be better now that the time has been spent introducing everyone.

[thedarkprince]

Alternatively, they may have made three episodes to see how it was rated.  If people liked it, they may make more.

Spot on.  The bloke who played Sherlock was on tv over the weekend and said that they had more episodes lined up.  Think they may just be one-offs. 

[jonny72]

I think its probably along the lines of the "having too much of a good thing" argument.  Alternatively, they may have made three episodes to see how it was rated.  If people liked it, they may make more.

Holby/casualty/Eastenders may be awful - indeed they are - but they do two important jobs.  They fill the airtime and they get the ratings.  This leads me to conclude that a lot of the nation's TV watchers are really rather stupid.

They did a one hour pilot, they must have thought it was good as they dropped the pilot and went with three longer episodes instead. I'd imagine they normally have a pretty good idea how well something will go down well before it actually airs.

What annoys me most about it is that the BBC are more than capable of producing drama that will sell around the world just as well as American shows do and to make shit loads of cash for them to re-invest (or lower the licence fee). They just don't have the balls to invest the required cash and take a calculated risk.

The net result is we get 100 episodes of Casualty / Holby done as soap's with limited appeal outside the UK, whilst in the US you get 50 episodes of Grey's Anatomy / Private Practice which sell around the world. The BBC can and should be doing better.

[Doore]

They did a one hour pilot, they must have thought it was good as they dropped the pilot and went with three longer episodes instead. I'd imagine they normally have a pretty good idea how well something will go down well before it actually airs.

What annoys me most about it is that the BBC are more than capable of producing drama that will sell around the world just as well as American shows do and to make shit loads of cash for them to re-invest (or lower the licence fee). They just don't have the balls to invest the required cash and take a calculated risk.

The net result is we get 100 episodes of Casualty / Holby done as soap's with limited appeal outside the UK, whilst in the US you get 50 episodes of Grey's Anatomy / Private Practice which sell around the world. The BBC can and should be doing better.

As much as I'd like to disagree (I can be a bit argumentative at times, but I hide it on here) there is not a single word of that I can disagree with.