A CONTEMPORARY remake of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic, co-created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, and starring Benedict Cumberbatch  as Sherlock Holmes, with Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson, Rupert Graves as Inspector Lestrade, and Una Stubbs as Mrs Hudson.

  A Study in Pink  is written by Steven Moffat, and brings together Holmes and Watson in present day London, on the trail of a fiendish and apparently motiveless killer.

  Piers Wenger, BBC Wales Head of Drama said: “Our Sherlock is a dynamic superhero in a modern world, an arrogant, genius sleuth driven by a desire to prove himself cleverer than the perpetrator and the police, everyone in fact.”

  Steven Moffat adds: “Everything that matters about Holmes and Watson is the same, Conan Doyles original stories were never about frock coats and gas light; theyre about brilliant detection, dreadful villains and blood-curdling crimes – and frankly, the hell with the crinoline.

  “Other detectives have cases,    Sherlock

 

 Holmes has adventures and thats what matters.

  “Mark and I have been talking about this project for years, on long train rides to Cardiff for Doctor Who. Quite honestly we'd still be talking about it if Sue Vertue of Hartswood Films (conveniently, also my wife) hadnt sat us down for lunch and got us to work.”

  Location filming transformed Wales into Londons West End, turning a Swansea  pub into Angelo's Pasta Joint. TV trivia fans may notice more than a passing resemblance between the patron Angelo and fellow Italian Luigi, the bar-owner from Ashes to Ashes...

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Broadcast

First transmission: to be confirmed, BBC1

A Hartswood Films production for BBC Wales Drama,  1 x 60' pilot

 

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