Through the years,Sherlock Holmes has been ripe for adaptations.
In fact, there will be three new Sherlock Holmes adaptations in 2025 alone.
Morris Chestnut’sWatsonis already getting a season 2after it debuted in January.
The CW’sSherlock & Daughterhas a release dateof April 16, whileGuy Ritchie’sYoung Sherlockis expected to release in 2025.
If for no other reason, it will provide a break from the constant deluge of Sherlock Holmes stories.
Even Benoit Blanc inKnives Outis, to an extent, inspired by Sherlock Holmes.
Likewise, there simply isn’t another TV detective who’s as endearing as Frank Columbo is.
Almost every Sherlock-inspired TV mystery is, at its core, predictable.
At some point, they started to blend together.
How different, really, arePsychandMonk?
As mystery novelist B.K.
Stevens noted (viaSleuthSayers), Columbo is the American version and complete antithesis of Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock is noble-born, naturally talented, arrogant, and a symbol of everything Victorian England idolized.
Oh, and one more thing.
I only hope that someone with some power realizes the potentialColumbohas, especially in relation toSherlock Holmes.
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