We at Sherlockology don’t quite share Sherlock’s views on love, so it’s a Happy Valentine’s Day to all our followers!
The clock has struck midnight in the UK, so it’s a Happy New Year from all of us at Sherlockology to you all!
#HQ - Specsavers Crime thriller Awards 2012 held at the Grovsenor Hotel, Park Lane. London - 18.10.12
Sherlock 2013 Calendar back cover revealed
The back cover of the Sherlock 2013 calendar has just been revealed on Twitter. It features the main images of all twelve monthly interior spreads.
You can preorder the calendar, due for release in the UK on October 1 2012, here on Amazon UK. Regional Amazon sites, including Amazon US, France and Germany will also be carrying the calendar.
UPDATE: Danilo Calendars have contacted us to say that despite appearances from this back cover image, the calendar WILL showcase ALL characters from the series - there is imagery accompanying the calendar grid each month that is not shown here.
SHERLOCK Paper Figures
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 29th. 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 29th 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.
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.
Da Vinci’s Demons with Lara Pulver gains massive international TV distribution
From The Hollywood Reporter:
Da Vinci’s Demons, written by Man of Steel feature scribe David Goyer for Starz and BBC Worldwide, has been picked up for international distribution by Fox International Channels.
The eight-episode historical fantasy series, developed and produced by BBC Worldwide Productions, will roll-out across FIC’s 200 pay TV entertainment channels in Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa in early 2013.
The acquisition follows FIC showing other global dramas like AMC’s The Walking Dead and NBC/CTV’s The Listener in its 120 markets internationally.
Sherlock’s Lara Pulver stars in the series as Clarice Orsini, the “seductive and politically-minded” wife of Lorenzo de’ Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent), the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance.
Sherlockology webchat with Radio Times - transcript now available
If you weren’t able to join us yesterday for our live webchat with Radiotimes.com, either due to technical gremlins or a lack of space in the room - it was VERY popular - they’ve now put the complete transcript up on their website for repeat reading.
So go and see how we thought John made it over that fence in The Reichenbach Fall, how we’d like to see Irene Adler return to the series, what original stories we would love to see adapted for the series, and plenty more besides.
You can access the complete transcript here.
After reading today in the InStyle magazine that Benedict Cumberbatch had recorded a part on The Simpsons we did a little Google and found this gem of Fan Art.
The original post can be seen here (just scroll down a bit).
NOTE: This is FAN ART and not what will be in the actual show. We’ve no idea what Benedict recorded for the episode that he makes a cameo appearance in.
UPDATE:
After a little digging, we’ve discovered Benedict visited The Simpsons offices and recorded his cameo around May 17/18 this year.
A typical single episode of The Simpsons takes roughly five to seven months to produce from scratch, with scripting, vocal work and animation occuring simultaneously for the entire season. His visit to the writers room and subsequent recording for an episode in May would place him in the production schedule for Season 24 of the show, which begins airing on FOX from September 30 2012. Though nothing can be guaranteed due to broadcast scheduling, it looks quite possible that Benedict’s appearance would be in the earlier stages of Season 24.
