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How many times have I said recently I'm avoiding spoilers for Sherlock series 2? (That's rhetorical. You needn't actually answer that.)
Well, this article made me feel all warm and happy, but there are spoilers ranging from the titles of the three episodes/movies in the new series to the creators' and leads' sense of how the character relationships play out. I find them vague enough not to be a problem for me, but you have been warned.
"Hands Up Who Wants to Know about Sherlock Season 2?" by Fraser McAlpine at BBCA. The writing in the article is better than the lack of punctuation in the title would indicate.
ETA: Also go to this entry by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nialla42 to get a couple more links. One is a tweet that the airdate for the first episode is 1 January in the UK.
Unanswered is why BBC America is even covering a show that will be aired on PBS in this country, not, as far as I know, on BBCA. I guess they know what we like and want to keep us up to date. Perhaps they are planning a coup against PBS, along the lines of winning Doctor Who from PBS's iron grip. If it will get me Sherlock within a week or less of the episodes airing in the UK, I'll enlist in their coup!
Ooh—Wikipedia informs me here that Masterpiece, a company at least partly funded by PBS, coproduced the series. That makes it a bit hard for BBCA to grab it. Why on earth would they coproduce it and then plan to air it five months after it will have aired in the UK? (WARNING: Wikipedia article contains mild SPOILERS for s2.) Seriously: do they want to make sure that 90–95% of their potential audience has already watched a download before it airs?
My favorite bit from the Wikipedia article (I didn't read it in full, but this caught my eye):
The show's popularity resulted in enquiries for coats similar to Sherlock's, reported retailer Debenhams. Garment manufacturer Belstaff put the wool trench coat worn by Benedict Cumberbatch back into production before the series had ended. The Independent newspaper reported that "designer Paul Costelloe moved to meet the demand, offering tailored coats and scarves based on the series, while Savile Row bespoke tailor John Pearse said many of his clients were inquiring about the actors' clothes". Journalist Alexis Petridis comments, "you can see why men wanted to get the look. Perhaps they noted the effect Cumberbatch, by no means your standard telly hunk, had on lady viewers ... and decided it must have something to do with the clobber. So it is that Britain's latest men's style icon is a fictional asexual sociopath first seen onscreen hitting a corpse with a stick. Surely not even the great detective himself could have deduced that was going to happen." Publishers and retailers reported a 180% rise in sales of Sherlock Holmes books during the first series' broadcast. Speedy's, the sandwich shop below the flat filmed as Holmes' residence, reported a sharp rise in new customers who recognised it from the show." (my emphasis)
What? No upsurge in sales of jumpers such as John wears? One of them does say "actors' clothes," plural, so maybe!
Well, this article made me feel all warm and happy, but there are spoilers ranging from the titles of the three episodes/movies in the new series to the creators' and leads' sense of how the character relationships play out. I find them vague enough not to be a problem for me, but you have been warned.
"Hands Up Who Wants to Know about Sherlock Season 2?" by Fraser McAlpine at BBCA. The writing in the article is better than the lack of punctuation in the title would indicate.
ETA: Also go to this entry by
nialla42 to get a couple more links. One is a tweet that the airdate for the first episode is 1 January in the UK.Unanswered is why BBC America is even covering a show that will be aired on PBS in this country, not, as far as I know, on BBCA. I guess they know what we like and want to keep us up to date. Perhaps they are planning a coup against PBS, along the lines of winning Doctor Who from PBS's iron grip. If it will get me Sherlock within a week or less of the episodes airing in the UK, I'll enlist in their coup!
Ooh—Wikipedia informs me here that Masterpiece, a company at least partly funded by PBS, coproduced the series. That makes it a bit hard for BBCA to grab it. Why on earth would they coproduce it and then plan to air it five months after it will have aired in the UK? (WARNING: Wikipedia article contains mild SPOILERS for s2.) Seriously: do they want to make sure that 90–95% of their potential audience has already watched a download before it airs?
My favorite bit from the Wikipedia article (I didn't read it in full, but this caught my eye):
The show's popularity resulted in enquiries for coats similar to Sherlock's, reported retailer Debenhams. Garment manufacturer Belstaff put the wool trench coat worn by Benedict Cumberbatch back into production before the series had ended. The Independent newspaper reported that "designer Paul Costelloe moved to meet the demand, offering tailored coats and scarves based on the series, while Savile Row bespoke tailor John Pearse said many of his clients were inquiring about the actors' clothes". Journalist Alexis Petridis comments, "you can see why men wanted to get the look. Perhaps they noted the effect Cumberbatch, by no means your standard telly hunk, had on lady viewers ... and decided it must have something to do with the clobber. So it is that Britain's latest men's style icon is a fictional asexual sociopath first seen onscreen hitting a corpse with a stick. Surely not even the great detective himself could have deduced that was going to happen." Publishers and retailers reported a 180% rise in sales of Sherlock Holmes books during the first series' broadcast. Speedy's, the sandwich shop below the flat filmed as Holmes' residence, reported a sharp rise in new customers who recognised it from the show." (my emphasis)
What? No upsurge in sales of jumpers such as John wears? One of them does say "actors' clothes," plural, so maybe!