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How does CBS series Elementary stack up against the BBC's Sherlock? Paul Jones compares the Holmeses, their styles and their partners in crimes...

Paul Jones
When US network CBS first announced that it would be creating its own modern-day Sherlock Holmes series, Sue Vertue, executive producer of the BBC's Sherlock, confessed herself "worried". CBS had previously approached her and husband, Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat, about translating the show to America. The fact that they were turned down yet went ahead and did their own version, Elementary, had some people whispering "rip-off".
Having now seen a synopsis and a trailer for Elementary, Moffat has gone the other way, suggesting that its hardly Sherlock Holmes at all. Meanwhile, fans are wondering how it stacks up against Sherlock.
Well what better way to find out what's really going on than to compare the two detectives across some of the areas that really matter, from dress sense to addiction, sidekicks to solving crimes...
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Date: 2012-08-02 04:40 am (UTC)What I meant with the joke about Moffat -- I think his point about the setting in America changing too much is unfair. The geographic location is different, but Holmes is still a consulting detective and has a working relationship with Gregson, so the essential parts of the setting are still present. Even though the location is in America, it's still a recognizable Holmes adaptation. Being set in America is like the Russian adaptation having the characters speak Russian -- it's different from ACD, but not so different that it's made things too different.