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Elementary Will Return for a Fifth Season

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As Elementary winds up its fourth season, let's touch on the news from CBS last month when they <a href="http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/elementary-season-five-renewal-cbs-drama/" target="_blank">announced the renewal of Elementary for a fifth season</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>There were questions on
whether CBS would bring back the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
</span>The live ratings have taken a dip this season and the network has moved
the show from Thursdays at 10:00 PM to Sundays at 10:00 PM, a slot that been
the final resting place of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mentalist</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">CSI: Miami</i>. After four seasons, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementary</i> has 96 episodes, enough for a
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However, the <a href="http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/06/09/live7-dvr-ratings-complete-2013-14-season-the-big-bang-theory-leads-adults-18-49-ratings-increase-raising-hope-earns-biggest-percentage-increase-the-blacklist-tope-viewership-gains/271900/">live ratings only tell part of the story</a>. The
live + 7 day ratings <a href="http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2016/03/07/broadcast-live-7-ratings-feb-15-21-2016-week-22/">adds millions of viewers</a>, especially in the all-important
18-49 demographic. The fans of the show actively seek it out, DVRing it or watching
it on demand at their convenience. The show is made by CBS Studios, which gives
the network a financial incentive to keep the show going.<br />
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knocks against <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementary</i> has been
that it was crass ploy to cash in on Sherlock Holmes and the <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">BBC's</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Sherlock</i>. Such an argument seems to assume that the British
Broadcasting Corporation is a non-profit and ignores the fact that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sherlock</i> makes <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3cc9afc4-2d0e-11e4-911b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz44nl7prjc">untold millions</a> for the
Beeb; Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman tchotchkes are ubiquitous. You’d
be hard-pressed to find similar Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu merch.<br />
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<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/columnist/2015/11/04/cbs-elementary-jonny-lee-miller-review/75105242/">Television critics</a> who are not Sherlockians consistently praise the show for its acting
and intelligent scripts. Sherlockian critics (a majority of which tend to be
BBC fans) sniff that CBS’ show is a<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> procedural</i>,
as if the definition of the word contained a whiff of excrement, forgetting
that long ago <a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/knox.html">Father Ronald Knox</a> enumerated the Canon’s own procedural elements.
Sunday night is presently the home of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">60
Minutes</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Madame Secretary</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Good Wife</i> making <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementary</i> a good fit with CBS’ prestige
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I look forward to Robert Doherty and the writing staff’s interesting,
intelligent and challenging take on what it means to be Holmes and Watson, and
Holmes and Watson in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. <a href="http://www.cbs.com/shows/elementary/news/1005135/more-morland-more-problems-on-elementary/">Doherty</a> was at WonderCon when news of the renewal was announced, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kBt0Rwz3z8">Here</a> is a YouTube video of Doherty at one of the round tables and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px16uAMW9bE">one</a> of him at a media interview.</div>
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<b>CORRECTION: </b>An earlier version of this article misstated the end date of Season 4. The current season ends on May 1, 2016.<br />
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Elementary Will Return for a Fifth Season

"The signals were renewed" [REDC] As Elementary winds up its fourth season, let's touch on the news from CBS last mon...

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by James C. O'Leary

Legitimate Sherlockians — A Never-Ending Controversy

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<br />Name-calling about who's a legitimate Sherlockian, and disagreement about the things the young people enjoy doing — it sounds like the culture conflicts of today's Sherlockian world, but what do you know, the same things were going on half a century ago. A lot of the controversy now is about ships, whereas in 1968 it was about crossovers, but otherwise, well, we've been here before.<br /><br /><h3>
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The story starts with the September 1966 issue of <i>Baker Street Pages</i>, a newsletter I edited during my teenage years. That issue contained a six-line letter from Barbara Goldfield, a teen in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She made a suggestion that would hardly raise an eyebrow today: she identified Professor Moriarty's criminal network with T.H.R.U.S.H., the evil organization battling U.N.C.L.E., the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_U.N.C.L.E."><i>The Man from U.N.C.L.E.</i></a>, starring Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo and David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin, was a hugely popular series on NBC television that year, and Barbara suggested using it as a source for a study of Moriarty. <br /><br />"If she is so interested in U.N.C.L.E., T.H.R.U.S.H. and all the books thereof," someone shot back in the next issue, "I suggest that she resign from the Pageboys and start an U.N.C.L.E. society on the happenings of that far-fetched mythical group of morons." Such invective might not be out of place on Tumblr, Facebook or other social networks today, although most Sherlockians are familiar with crossovers, linking Holmes with everybody from Doctor Who to Fu Manchu.<br /><br />In December 1967, Barbara was back in <i>Baker Street Pages</i> with what would turn out to be one of the classic pieces of Sherlockian writing, a page and a half of text under the title "Did Sherlock Holmes Have Pointed Ears?" This was crossover more enduring than anything that had been said about U.N.C.L.E., for it pointed out the parallel between <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2010/07/search-of-glor_3.html#.VxHaiTArLb0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Spock of <i>Star Trek</i></a> (then just one year into the original series). The link between Holmes and <i>Star Trek</i> is more or less taken for granted now, especially as <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose85" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nicholas Meyer</a>, the author of <i>The Seven-Per-Cent Solution</i>, is known to have introduced Sherlockian themes into <i>Star Trek</i> episodes. But 25 years before Spock claimed Holmes as one of his ancestors, Barbara nailed the similarities. She had also written brief pieces connecting Holmes with Batman, Gandalf, the Phantom of the Opera, and probably others.<br /><br />This was odd stuff, in a Sherlockian world largely committed to the theories of William S. Baring-Gould about <a amzn-ps-bm-asin="B0014YL4WY" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" data-amzn-link-id="84b3bb9608cb4b9c63f5032ba762a95b" data-amzn-ps-bm-keyword="sherlock holmes of baker street" href="http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Caldecott-Greenaway-Historical-Baring-Gould/dp/B0014YL4WY/ref=as_li_bk_tl/?tag=thebakerstree-20&linkId=84b3bb9608cb4b9c63f5032ba762a95b&linkCode=ktl" id="amznPsBmLink_9719898" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Holmes's love affair with Irene Adler</a><img alt="" border="0" height="0" id="amznPsBmPixel_9719898" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?source=bk&t=thebakerstree-20&bm-id=default&l=ktl&linkId=84b3bb9608cb4b9c63f5032ba762a95b&_cb=1460788653704" style="border: none !important; height: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; width: 0px !important;" width="0" /> and his involvement in solving the Jack the Ripper murders, to say nothing of Watson's San Francisco marriage. (Nothing unusual here, nothing to see, but be sure to read Rex Stout's "<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/02/watson-actually-was-woman.html#.VxHbATArLb0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Watson Was a Woman</a>.") Another teenage Sherlockian said in an angry letter to <i>Baker Street Pages</i> that he was "sick of being patronized" by the older generation who took it upon themselves to tell junior Sherlockians what to do and what to write. However, he agreed that quite a bit of what the younger generation was writing was piffle, including invocations of Mr. Spock, Gandalf, and the rest. <br /><br />Generations are always in conflict (have you read "<a href="http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Arthur_Conan_Doyle/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes/ADVENTURE_XI_THE_ADVENTURE_OF_THE_BERYL_CORONET_p1.html">The Beryl Coronet</a>" lately?) but 1968 was the beginning of a particularly dramatic time, with student demonstrations, riots, confrontation over the Vietnam war. My generation were the baby boomers, and there were millions of us, and as we reached the age to assert ourselves in political and social change, we were also ready to stand on our dignity in the Sherlockian world as well. The letters column in <i>Baker Street Pages</i> makes it clear that we did not agree on much (there were as many people denouncing the Spock and Gandalf crossovers as there were discovering them), and we were not always setting ourselves up in opposition to the established Sherlockians, but we were definitely on the scene. <div>
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Now, of course, we're the older generation. Unease in the Sherlockian world these days centers largely on two issues: whether there is a subtext of homosexuality in the relationship between Holmes and Watson, and whether fans of the BBC <i>Sherlock</i>   series, without an accompanying interest in the original Holmes canon, are <a href="http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/11/upon-the-clear-distinction-between-fandom-and-the-baker-street-irregulars-lyndsay-faye-sherlock-holmes-arthur-conan-doyle-elementary">legitimately Sherlockians</a>. <br /></div>
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However, there is also sometimes a generational divide, complicated by the reality that the majority of younger Sherlockians, and especially BBC fans, are female, but the majority of older Sherlockians are still male. Unremarkably, there was also a strain of gender politics in the tensions of the 1960s, which surfaced when <a href="http://ash-nyc.com/">the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes</a> actually <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose89" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">picketed the Baker Street Irregulars' 1968 dinner</a>. Even apart from that issue, there was certainly a surge of young people impatient to find their place and flex their muscles.<br /><br />No wonder, then, that in January 1969, Barbara announced in print that she was pulling back a little from Sherlockian activity. "It seems," the originator of the Holmes-and-Spock theory wrote in annoyance, "that if the most slightly out-of-the-way theory is brought up by one of the members, other members fall upon him like wolves on a lamb." </div>
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Legitimate Sherlockians — A Never-Ending Controversy

"he hated my young legitimate heir" [PRIO] Name-calling about who's a legitimate Sherlockian, and disagreement about the...

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Episode 94: News & Nonsense

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This episode is a little different. As you know, we alternate between interview shows and Burt and Scott discussing whatever comes to mind. In this case, we had a number of news-related items to stitch together, but we had help in doing so. This was something of a chowder, a goulash, a salmagundi, a boullabaise, a melange of content.<br />
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First, Bob Katz, BSI ("Dr. Anstruther") joined us again, but this time he told us all about <a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/sherlock2016.html">"The Mind and Art of Sherlock Holmes"</a> — the latest in the BSI's series of quadrennial conferences. This gathering at the Chatauqua Institution is not exclusive to Baker Street Irregulars; it's open to any Sherlockian who wishes to participate in a conference centered around art of all sorts. In this case, that includes theater, film, music and even podcasting (!). Plenty of food, drink, Sherlockian shopping, sightseeing and more.<br />
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<a href="https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/rachel-smillie(7747eead-553b-4e1d-80e7-08865a9d2a2b).html">Rachel Smillie, Ph.D.</a> is a research assistant at the <a href="https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/">University of Porsmouth</a>, where she's conducting a study of Sherlockians and their organizations, called "Celebrities, Fans and Muses." She is interested in getting in touch with Sherlockians from all over the world. If you're involved with a Sherlockian society — particularly if you lead one — please <a href="mailto:rachel.smillie@port.ac.uk">get in touch with Dr. Smillie</a> to participate in the survey.<br />
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Episode 94: News & Nonsense

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Long Lost Prop from The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Found

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A forgotten piece of movie history has been found in Loch Ness. Almost 50 years after it sunk, a 30 foot model of the Loch Ness monster used in the filming of <i>The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes</i> has been located by a crew operating an underwater robot.<br />
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The model, a giant head on a long slender neck, did not contain the classic two humps traditionally associated with "Nessie." However, director Billy Wilder did not want the humps, and according to Loch Ness expert Adam Shine, "asked that they be removed, despite warnings I suspect from the rest of the production that this would affect its buoyancy." The crew then created a version without humps for use in the film.<br />
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And sure enough, the production crew's predictions proved prescient and the model sank.<br />
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The sunken model was discovered as part of a larger initiative to determine the depths of Loch Ness using submersibles supplied by Kongsberg Maritime. The full story can be <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-36024638">found on the BBC website</a>.<br />
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<i>The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes</i> debuted in 1970 and starred Robert Stephens as Sherlock Holmes, Colin Blakely as Dr. Watson and Christopher Lee as Mycroft Holmes. Miklos Rosza composed the score (more on his work for the film <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/04/composer-of-no-ordinary-merit-redh_18.html" rel="nofollow">can be found here</a>) and Billy Wilder directed. Wilder wanted a significantly longer film, but studio executives made him cut it and the footage has been lost to the ages.<br />
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Too bad that wasn't found along with Nessie.<br />
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Oh, and spoiler alert:<br />
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It wasn't really the Loch Ness monster. It was a mini-submarine cleverly disguised as the legendary creature, and navigated by dwarves.<br />
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