Quite simply, Sherlock is one of the greatest shows of our time. A modern masterpiece that takes a character from classic literature and playfully confounds audience expectations while staying true to the much-revered source material. The classic tomes in question are Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the men behind Doctor Who and The League Of Gentlemen, Sherlock plays with expectations and gives them a delightfully knowing modern spin. Anyone expecting a smoking pipe and a deerstalker will be left wanting. Until the special episode “The Abominable Bride” that stellar Sherlock cast includes Benedict Cumberbatch Marvel’s Doctor Strange and an Oscar nominee for The Imitation Game as the fiercely intelligent but equally arrogant Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman The Office, Fargo, Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy as Holmes’s often exasperated side-kick Doctor John Watson. The partners in fighting crime are ably supported by Una Stubbs as their Baker Street residence housekeeper Mrs. Hudson; Spectre star Andrew Scott as Holmes’s arch nemesis Moriaty; Gatiss plays the infamous sleuth’s brother Mycroft; Rupert Graves The White Queen plays Scotland Yard’s finest Detective Inspector Lestrade and Lars Mikkelsen plays "the Napoleon of Blackmail" Charles many of the classic storylines of the Victorian set novels but skilfully weaving a story arc that is both emotional and enthralling, the now 21st century saga effortlessly hitting the moments that Sherlock Holmes aficionados will expect while remaining a thrilling and evocative piece of television for the acclaimed, the show has won three BAFTAS, nine Prime Time Emmys and garnered a Golden Globe nomination for Cumberbatch for Best Actor in a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television amongst numerous other nominations and awards. Cumberbatch’s performance has rightly been heaped with praise. He is sensational in the title role. Equally impressive and unlikeable, his Sherlock exhibits an almost total disregard for authority, family or new Sherlock Holmes lives to solve crimes and mysteries. And that is exactly what we want Sherlock Holmes to do. It’s elementary.