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.

Blended image of Dick Van Dyke, Peter Falk, and Leonardo Nimoy in Columbo

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.

Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock and Robert Downey Jr in 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.

Dean Winchester looking sad with Supernatural scenes in an orange cracked background

How different, really, arePsychandMonk?

As mystery novelist B.K.

Stevens noted (viaSleuthSayers), Columbo is the American version and complete antithesis of Sherlock Holmes.

Eddie Marsan as Inspector Lestrade and Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes in 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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