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But details had been relatively vague until recently about what that screening might actually look like. We’ve known for a while now that The Abominable Bride would be shown theaters, much like Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary episode was back in 2013. Yes, Sherlock is getting its first big-screen theatrical release, and is expected to screen in over 500 theaters across the United States. The cherry on top of this sundae of awesome is that after you get your feelings about The Abominable Bride under control following its television premiere, you can go see it again in a movie theater with fellow Sherlock fans! Additionally, we also know we’ll be seeing new Sherlock on the same day as our friends in the UK, for the first time ever. Good news: We know the title of the upcoming Sherlockspecial, and we know it’s airing in America on January 1 at 9pm, thanks to Masterpiece and your local PBS station.

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In addition to All The Way, Sherlock beat out HBO’s Confirmation, starring Kerry Washington as Anita Hill and Wendell Pierce as Clarence Thomas BBC America’s Luther, starring Idris Elba and Netflix’s A Very Murray Christmas, starring Bill Murray with help from myriad big names including Miley Cyrus, George Clooney and Chris Rock.ĭiane Haithman contributed to this story.These outfits are so great. Hudson Rupert Graves as DI Lestrad series writer Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes and Andrew Scott as Moriarty. The cast of The Abominable Bride also includes Una Stubbs as Mrs.

He added that no version of the Holmes story is the correct one: “It’s not about being definitive, it’s about taking your won perception and doing your own thing with it.” The only definitive Sherlock, he added is “definitely the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.” It is “sweet friendship and pure reason,” Moffat said. In the Masterpiece special, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, Holmes and Watson find themselves cracking mysteries in 1890s London, focusing in on the case of the “Abominable Bride” - in contrast to the 21st century London milieu of the contemporary series.īackstage, Sherlock executive producer Steven Moffat said that to him the most important things about Sherlock Holmes has always been Holmes’ “demonstrated intelligence” as well as the “eternal friendship of absolute opposites” that is Watson and Holmes.

Watch sherlock the abominable bride - version 1