Sherlock - Yes there's going to be another series...Hooray

Finally I remembered to check out the BBC iPlayer for news on “Sherlock”, which I’d heard had been commissioned for a further series. For anyone unfamiliar with Sherlock it’s was, originally, a one-off series of three TV programmes reworking the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson and setting them in modern day London.

The writing was extremely clever and the writers obviously knew, and loved, their Conan Doyle. In the original stories when Holmes was faced with a particularly difficult problem he would classify such a problem in terms of the number of pipes of tobacco he’d have to smoke before reached a solution. In the present day Sherlock no longer smokes so he now has “Three Patch Problems” i.e. problems requiring him to don three nicotine patches to aid him in his deliberations. Sheer genius and all three episodes are littered with these Holmes in-jokes. Anyway, there was nothing about the new series but it did remind me that Dr Watson is supposed to be blogging about his and Sherlock’s adventures. Low and behold the good old BBC has actually created this blog and other sites, such a Holmes’ site “The Science of Deduction” to back up the series.
“Tech”, in fact, features quite heavily throughout the series but is particularly important in the first story; where the story revolves very much around modern mobile technology. I can’t wait for the new series, hopefully more than three episodes this time, and my lady laddie bits tingle in anticipation every time I think about it.