Sherlock and Zombies coming to TV next week

[Doc Beechler (mod-MD)]

Fans of the great detective and zombies take note:

 

The new "Sherlock in today's London" program from Doctor Who brainiacs, Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, begins on PBS on Sunday. 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sherlock/

 

On IFC, the "Zombies attack the Big Brother house" program will be shown at midnight every night next week.  It's called Dead Set.

 

http://www.ifc.com/dead-set/

 

And, of course, on Halloween night, The Walking Dead begins on AMC.

 

http://www.amctv.com/originals/The-Walking-Dead/

 

 

That's some good TV!

[Doc Beechler (mod-MD)]

There was a nice write-up in the NY Times today about the new Sherlock show and how "Doctor Who" it is. I love that a newspaper can just talk about Doctor Who and mention David Tennant as if everyone knows what and who they are now.

[Philip Portelli]

Thanks for the head's up on Sherlock, Doc! I just read a great review of it in the Daily News so now I know what I'm watching on Sunday nights for the next three weeks!

BTW, does Britain have regular weekly dramas or is it mostly mini-series?

[Cavaliere (moderator emeritus)]

I read about Dead Set in Entertainment Weekly. Sadly, we not only don't have IFC but we don't even know anybody with IFC. I don't think I've ever even heard of the channel before this.

My TiVo at home is set for Sherlock and I'll be videotaping The Walking Dead at my parents' house so I can watch it with Jenn. (We don't have AMC but Mom & Dad--conveniently on a multi-month motorhome trip--do.)

[KSwolf]

I think I mentioned in the Doctor Who group a few months ago that this is probably my favorite screen adaptation of the Holmes mythos to date. I watched the entire series on Youtube over the summer, and I'm looking forward to watching it again on an actual television screen, rather than on a computer monitor.

[KSwolf]

I haven't watched the PBS airing, but it's being reported on another site that they "sliced this thing to ribbons". It makes no sense that a non-commercial network like PBS needs to edit the show down like that, surely they could find a thirty minute program to broadcast afterwards, couldn't they?

I think I'll skip the U.S. broadcast and wait until the DVD is released in a couple of weeks to watch it on my tv screen.

[Doc Beechler (mod-MD)]

KSwolf said:

I haven't watched the PBS airing, but it's being reported on another site that they "sliced this thing to ribbons". It makes no sense that a non-commercial network like PBS needs to edit the show down like that, surely they could find a thirty minute program to broadcast afterwards, couldn't they?

I think I'll skip the U.S. broadcast and wait until the DVD is released in a couple of weeks to watch it on my tv screen.

It seemed coherent to us...

[Ana Canino-Fluit (Anacoqui- mod)]

I followed it just fine...how long was the UK version? Ours ran a little less than 90 (85 or 87?) minutes without any breaks after the initial intro.
I really loved it...kept having to rewind when I first started because I was trying to respond to emails and watch and I kept missing stuff...ended up putting everything but my knitting down, and letting it command my full attention. Really delightful.


Doc Beechler said:

KSwolf said:

I haven't watched the PBS airing, but it's being reported on another site that they "sliced this thing to ribbons". It makes no sense that a non-commercial network like PBS needs to edit the show down like that, surely they could find a thirty minute program to broadcast afterwards, couldn't they?

I think I'll skip the U.S. broadcast and wait until the DVD is released in a couple of weeks to watch it on my tv screen.

It seemed coherent to us...

[KSwolf]

If it ran 85-87 minutes, then they didn't cut as much as I'd thought (maybe five minutes tops). From the way people were ranting about it on some other sites, I'd assumed that they had cut it down to fit into an hour timeslot the way that the Sci-Fi channel used to cut down Doctor Who.

Anyway, according to some of the posters on Alan Sepinwall's blog and on the Onion's AV Club, they cut out some of the interaction between Watson and Mycroft's text-happy assistant, as well as several crucial minutes from Holmes' final confrontation with the cab driver, . Some of the dialogue cut from the cabbie scene becomes somewhat significant in the next two episodes, which makes their edits pretty perplexing.

[Ana Canino-Fluit (Anacoqui- mod)]

how odd...maybe their stations were doing pledge drives or something...our time slots for Masterpiece tend to be 90 minutes long. My version had plenty of interaction btw the Mycroft's assistant and Dr. Watson before and after the case was solved. and the Cabbie confrontation didn't seem choppy at all.
KSwolf said:

If it ran 85-87 minutes, then they didn't cut as much as I'd thought (maybe five minutes tops). From the way people were ranting about it on some other sites, I'd assumed that they had cut it down to fit into an hour timeslot the way that the Sci-Fi channel used to cut down Doctor Who.

Anyway, according to some of the posters on Alan Sepinwall's blog and on the Onion's AV Club, they cut out some of the interaction between Watson and Mycroft's text-happy assistant, as well as several crucial minutes from Holmes' final confrontation with the cab driver, . Some of the dialogue cut from the cabbie scene becomes somewhat significant in the next two episodes, which makes their edits pretty perplexing.

[Alan M.]

According to IMDB, the first ep is 88 minutes in its original run; I just checked my DVR, and subtracting the Masterpiece intro and outro, the episode that aired yesterday ran 80:20. Now, that 80:20 doesn't include end credits, next episode teasers, etc., so that might be another minute and a half, but it was definitely cut. Couple that with the fact that our PBS station doesn't letterbox its widescreen broadcasts for people who still have 4:3 TVs, and I'm thinking I might join KSwolf in just waiting for the DVDs...