Would you help yourself to a holdall of cash abandoned in a phone box? Or intervene in a restaurant if a customer was subject to racist abuse from a waiter? You’d take the cash, buy the restaurant and sack the waiter – of course, you would. Not everyone is like you, though, oh heroic reader.
Friday 24 May 2013
The Sherlock Holmes franchise has been assiduously exploited on the written page, on stage, cinema and TV ever since A Study in Scarlet announced the arrival of the world’s greatest detective back in 1887.
Sunday 12 May 2013
Pointless host: 'Why should your background be held against you?'
Thursday 14 March 2013
John Humphrys will today receive a prestigious broadcasting award following the Today programme interview in which his ruthless grilling of George Entwistle prompted the resignation of the BBC Director-General.
Wednesday 13 February 2013
The Wanted have beaten One Direction in the latest battle of the boybands.
Tuesday 12 February 2013
Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman could still be playing the successful sleuths in 20 years if the show's co-creator Mark Gatiss gets his way.
Tuesday 12 February 2013
The comedian came top in a poll of 'weird crushes'
Monday 04 February 2013
British Museum show joins growing trend for major exhibitions to be streamed in cinemas
Wednesday 23 January 2013
The first still showing Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange has been released. Cover your eyes, Sherlock fans – he's really not looking as fit as a fiddle
Wednesday 23 January 2013
As Julian Assange addresses Oxford students via a small screen, we get a sneak peak of the Sherlock star playing him on the big screen
Thursday 17 January 2013
Dancing dog Pudsey is going to bust a move Gangnam Style in front of a prime-time audience at the National Television Awards.
Friday 07 December 2012
The minute-long teaser for Star Trek into Darkness has been released for the first time.
Friday 02 November 2012
Lauryn Hill this week debuted a new single, "Black Rage". But those looking for something like "Doo Wop (That Thing)" might be slightly disappointed to hear the new track is a spoken-word missive on race, capitalism and America; a re-working of "My Favourite Things". "As artists we have the opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness," she said.
Wednesday 24 October 2012
The American remake of British drama Sherlock will be extended into a 22 episode season to be broadcast on CBS.
Wednesday 24 October 2012
An enigma has been solved in a most ingenious way – the solver cutting through the preconceptions of fuzzier minds and delivering the solution with a flourish. What was inexplicable has been unfolded and smoothed flat. Impossible knots have been deftly loosed and unravelled.
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