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Guy Ritchie recently brought an audience back to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic literary detective with last year’s holiday hit Sherlock Holmes. Now BBC is counting on the audiences who loved the film to tune in to their series re-imagining, Sherlock. Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss — who have done wonders for Doctor Who as the series’ respective showrunner and writer — are responsible for the contemporary update, said to “ground the forthcoming tales in reality, and appease ardent fans of the classic tales.” Benedict Cumberbatch(Atonement) takes the role of the titular detective while Martin Freeman (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) plays his loyal sidekick Dr. John Watson.

Hit the jump for images, more details, and the official synopsis for this promising series.

Directed by Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin), Sherlock will play out in three ninety-minute installments (which seems more like a miniseries for U.S. audiences) on BBC One with a projected premiere date sometime between July 24th and July 30th. Though I haven’t checked out Doctor Who, friends having nothing but good things to say about it. And I absolutely loved Moffat’s work on Coupling, a far superior British version of Friends.

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ORIGINAL CHANNEL: BBC One
PREMIERE: 25 Juli 2010

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