its sensibility cited by Mark Gattis as the key influence on Sherlock. Its barrage of jokes and burlesque plotlines are suffused with a melancholy stemming from Holmes’s loneliness and the ...

The 48-year-old actor played Sherlock Holmes opposite Martin Freeman’s ... although they made sure to take out any ‘meta’ jokes, as he explained: ‘We just said, “No, no, no. Better ...