On Saturday June 1 2013, a special event was held in Bristol during CrimeFest, the International Crime Fiction Convention. Named ‘Creating Sherlock’, an early afternoon panel saw Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue discuss the inception of the series and the status of production on the third, which is currently on a brief production hiatus until later in the summer. As Steven Moffat noted, in typically amusing fashion while acknowledging the protracted development of the new series around other projects, “We’ve just sort of stopped for a bit while Martin [Freeman] pops back to New Zealand for a bit to film more of The Hobbit. We’re actually going to resume shooting Sherlock next Christmas.” While Mark Gatiss jokingly concluded, “This is an exclusive, as it’s actually going to be nine films.”

By the nature of the event, there was of course a fair amount of repetition in what the panel were able to speak about - in particular, the creation of the series -  which we have previously reported on in our coverage of The Sherlock Masterclass at MGEITF 2012 and The Game Is On: An Afternoon with Mark Gatiss and Friends. So instead, here we present a full selection of the best banter and observation from the creative team.

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On this day in 1891, Sherlock Holmes fell to his apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls, as depicted in the pages of ‘The Final Problem’.

From wikipedia:

Out of many waterfalls in the Bernese Oberland, the Reichenbach Falls seems to have made the greatest impression on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, who was shown them on a Swiss holiday by his host Sir Henry Lunn, the founder of Lunn Poly. Sir Henry’s grandson, Peter Lunn, recalled, “My grandfather said ‘Push him over the Reichenbach Falls’ and Conan Doyle hadn’t heard of them, so he showed them to him.” So impressed was Doyle that he decided to let his hero die there.

The actual ledge from which Moriarty and Holmes apparently fell is on the other side of the falls to the funicular; it is accessible by climbing the path to the top of the falls, crossing the bridge and following the trail down the hill. The ledge is marked by a plaque as illustrated here; the English inscription reads: “At this fearful place, Sherlock Holmes vanquished Professor Moriarty, on 4 May 1891.”

The pathway on which the duel between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty occurs ends some hundred metres away from the falls. When Doyle viewed the falls, the path ended very close to the falls, close enough to touch it, yet over the hundred years after his visit, the pathway has become unsafe and slowly eroded away, and the falls have receded further back into the gorge.

The actual date of the ‘death’ of Sherlock Holmes in the BBC Series is a little harder to pin down. We made an attempt to find the date of Sherlock’s fall from the top of St Bart’s Hospital in this article last year.

assassinsan:

Perhaps, as the author of this doll, i should post it here))
And then, Tumblr has a lot of nameless references to it..)

Amazing handmade Moriarty doll by the very talented Anastasia.

Benedict Cumberbatch talks Sherlock Series 3 - and Andrew Scott as Moriarty.

londonphile:

Benedict Cumberbatch Interview - Moriarty & Sherlock Series 3 (by RedCarpetNewsTV)

So the internet has been set aflame these past few weeks with the first glimpse of Benedict Cumberbatch as the mysterious John Harrison in Star Trek Into Darkness. But this is not the first time these two fictional worlds have crossed over with each other. Star Trek and Sherlock Holmes have made several references to the other in their time, and so here we present a guide to some of those intersections, some just passing reference, others explicit pastiche – with a minimum of ‘Of Boldy Going’ jokes.

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schweizercomics:

So I’ve been making these paper figures for myself for a while (they’re lining the walls of my studio), and I thought I’d make them available to everyone else.  For free. Every Monday.  Print the figures out yourself on your own printer, or you can take them to your local print shop (that’s what I do) for the best quality.

I figured I’d start with a set of figures from the BBC show SHERLOCK, given that if it weren’t for that marvelous show I probably wouldn’t be on tumblr in the first place.

I don’t usually do backgrounds for these, but this set comes with a Baker Street diorama, because come on, Baker Street.

Anyway, click here to download the print file.  It’s a little shy of 27MB, which isn’t HUGE, but it’s probably better suited to a laptop or a desktop than a phone.  If you want to get OTHER paper figure sets, just go to the paper figure page at CroganAdventures.com and pick out the set(s) you want (more of these will pop up each Monday, so check back each week or follow to see what’s new).

I want as many folks as possible who might enjoy these to see ‘em.  So I’m doing a

Since this is the first of what’ll be lots and lots of these sets, I’m gonna make this contest a BIG one.  THREE winners!

• First Prize: A professionally printed set of the Sherlock figures, a set of my Arthur Conan Doyle stories Sherlock Holmes figures, and AN ORIGINAL PAPER FIGURE OF YOUR CHOICE THAT I WILL DRAW JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT IT.  Maybe you’ll want a portrait of yourself in a London constable outfit so that you can hang out in Baker Street with the others.  Maybe you want red pants John.  Maybe you want the hound.  Maybe you want something entirely unrelated to Sherlock, like the janitor from Scrubs or Totoro.  So long as I consider it within the bounds of good taste (I do make all ages comics, after all), it’s your call.  You’ll get the digital file, a professionally printed copy, AND the original art.  Usually I charge eighty bucks for one of these, so that’s a real steal!

• Second Prize: A professionally printed set of the Sherlock figures, a set of my Arthur Conan Doyle stories Sherlock Holmes figures

• Third Prize: A set of my Arthur Conan Doyle stories Sherlock Holmes figures

And, because it’s important to share, whomever the winners reblogged from will ALSO receive the same prize as their follower winner!  (winners who reblog from themselves only get one prize, and there’s no additional prize if you reblog directly from me)

• likes aren’t eligible, ONLY reblogs.

• You can reblog as often as you like, but Tumblr only shows your most recent reblog, so you’ll only show up once.  Sorry.  Tumblr’s doing, not mine.

• You don’t have to follow me to win, but I’ll be doing contests like this fairly regularly and posting new figures along with occasional contest updates, so it might be an easy way to keep up.

• I’m lousy with numbers, so no spreadsheets or anything like that for me, because if I tried it I’d end up leaving people off.  I’m going to use a random number generator (random.org) to pick a number.  If that number happens to be a reblog, it wins!  If it’s a like, I pick another random number, and repeat ‘til there’s a winner.  I’ll do third place first, then second, then first.

• The winners will be chosen at 4am Eastern Time early on Saturday, September 29^th.  I’ll be helping to run the SCAD-Atlanta 24-hour comics event, so there will be plenty of witnesses on hand and we’ll make a big to-do about it.  Obviously, no reblogs after 4am Eastern on September 29^th will be eligible.  

• If this reaches 5K notes, I’ll add another prize.  Something fun.

As always, art collectors can find the originals on my original art page.

An unusual tale of mistaken identity based upon the novel by Daphne de Maurier, The Scapegoat stars Matthew Rhys as a man who encounters his doppelganger and unwillingly trades places with him, leading to a completely different life with his double’s family, including Andrew Scott, Eileen Atkins, Sheridan Smith and Jodhi May.  The film was first broadcast on Sunday September 9 2012, and is now available on DVD in the UK.

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Towards the end of the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival yesterday, we were able to have a quick chat with Andrew Scott, and he asked us to pass on an important message to everyone that sends him fanmail.

Andrew absolutely loves receiving fanmail, reads everything, and writes back as much as possible. But sometimes, he receives something that he isn’t able to reply to as the sender hasn’t included a postage pre-paid and self-addressed envelope, and often these are letters and messages he would really love to reply to – he even said he finds such a situation heart breaking at times!

So if you send something to Andrew that you’ve put a lot of effort into, make sure to include a pre-paid, stamped and self-addressed envelope, with International Reply Coupons if your are sending from overseas, so he can reply to you - as if he could he’d reply to everyone!

To contact Andrew, address your letter or package as:
FAO: Andrew Scott
c/o United Agents Ltd.
12-26 Lexington Street
London W1F 0LE, UK

We’ve just added the fourth of our Sherlock Episode Trailer videos to our site - A Scandal In Belgravia.

A huge thank you to the VERY talented Lee Dawson for working with us on this project. You can check out more of Lee’s work here.

A simple morality play masquerading as a complex political thriller, Blackout is a challenging blend of visual and thematic styles cribbed from other sources, anchored by strong performances by its cast, including Christopher Eccleston, Dervla Kirwan, Ewen Bremmer and Andrew Scott.

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