doing the rounds

TV Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's Sherlock begins on BBC One 25th July at 9pm which is a great timeslot (even if this feels like a Winter series). The official page is up, with trailer, and I haven't yet discounted some kind of post-modern reason for Holmes to be in the 21st century, for there not to be some historical connection ala Jekyll.

Benedict Cumberbatch (who plays the detective) is doing the rounds:

"Sherlock was, he says, a very enjoyable part, even if he did end up with pneumonia from the strain. "There's a great charge you get from playing him, because of the volume of words in your head and the speed of thought – you really have to make your connections incredibly fast. He is one step ahead of the audience, and of anyone around him with normal intellect. They can't quite fathom where his leaps are taking him. Zip zip zip. But you catch me in the car on the way home after and I am, 'Whoahhh!'"

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Cumberbatch'll only be in his mid-thirties when Matt Smith'll be thinking about leaving ...