New Russian Sherlock Holmes Series Premieres November 18th
Igor Petrenko as Sherlock Holmes and Andrey Panin as Dr. Watson
Yes, you read right. The new Russian Sherlock Holmes series is coming out on Monday! Starring Igor Petrenko as Holmes and the late Andrey Panin as Watson. The series promises eight new stories as well as dabblings with Moriarty (Alexei Gorbunov) and Irene Adler (Lyanka Gryu), the latter who will serve as a romantic interest for Holmes. In this version Holmes is twenty-seven and Watson fifteen years his senior. The main plot thread is that Watson has embellished the original stories, letting the production team recreate them from scratch and essentially become new.
The story begins with the acquaintance: Dr. Watson, in search for a room in London, rents an apartment at Mrs. Hudson’s. Although he is totally fine with the accommodation, his neighbor leaves much to be desired – eccentric young man without any clear occupation makes Dr. Watson suspect he is a trespasser and a real criminal.
Soon Dr. Watson’s mistrust turns just the opposite when he discovers truly calling of his strange stable companion – private investigation. Mr. Sherlock Holmes is a serious threat for London underworld. Dr. Watson shortly gets involved into his new friend’s life full of exciting and dangerous adventures and becomes his loyal workmate. [x]
Lyanka Gryu as Irene Adler… with a baby turtle.
ШЕРЛОК ХОЛМС will air on россия 1 at 9PM Russian time. There’s a bunch of sneakpeeks over at Russia.TV and It’ll be available online to watch (in Russian) at http://russia.tv/video/. BUT! You can watch a subtitled version of the trailer below or on YouTube.
It has become my favorite Holmes TV Series. Read about reasons for it’s failure in the motherland in the essay:
“Is It Any Longer Always 1895? Why the Latest Russian Sherlock Holmes Failed and the Implications for Twenty First Century Perceptions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Detective” A FREE download at: http://www.nplh.co.uk/is-it-always-1895.html