Elementary is a fantastic Sherlock Holmes adaptation, as is the BBC's Sherlock, but the CBS series' depiction of the villainous Moriarty is better.

The BBC's Sherlock was great, but two years after it premiered, the better modern version of the Great Detective was released ...

prior to watching “Elementary” on CBS. A show in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic British detective, Sherlock Holmes — the one we all know and love — never existed? Please.

The game may be afoot for more than one Sherlock Holmes, but that’s not a problem, says Allen Barra, who compares CBS’s Super Bowl-bound Elementary to PBS’s smash hit Sherlock.

But in the past 15 years, three TV shows have taken a swipe at modernizing Holmes: Fox’s “House,” BBC’s “Sherlock” and CBS’ “Elementary.” With the finale of “Sherlock’s ...

The more modern adaptations of Holmes stories (the Guy Ritchie movies, House, and Sherlock) have been much better at painting Watson as a character with a personality. However, Elementary goes a ...

But Holmes doesn't seem to care ... And fear not, there are tidings of comfort and joy. It's elementary, my dear reader. Tickets for "A Sherlock Carol," playing through Jan. 1, 2023, at New ...

And then there are contemporary TV actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, star of the BBC series “Sherlock,” and Jonny Lee Miller of the CBS TV series “Elementary.” The Holmes character ...

27, “Elementary” is a deceptively bold experiment ... hope to distinguish their show from all that came before. “Sherlock Holmes has been done what seems like a thousand times,” Doherty ...

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One of the most well-known examples of all falls into this latter category: "Elementary, my dear Watson," the signature phrase indelibly associated with Sherlock Holmes, the fictional detective ...