My descent into
Sherlockian crankdom continued today.
I use this blog to
self-monitor my patterns as a Holmes fan, among other things, and this aging
Sherlockian seems to grouse about everything Sherlockian, to the point one has
to wonder if I could be positive about anything. If there was ever proof of
that theory consider this reaction to today’s news:
BBC’s Sherlock garnered thirteen Emmy
nominations, a fact that should thrill any Sherlockian or fan of the show, of
which I am both. I love the fact that Sherlock Holmes is making his way into
the award show circuit, having loved Robert Downey Junior’s Holmes reference on
the Oscars a while back, and the fact that we now have a full-blown Sherlock
incursion into the top U.S. television awards.
And that’s the bug
in my bonnet – although the Emmys is primarily an American television
institution, it sometimes awards those
few BBC television shows that are bought by some American channel and shown
here. Some American channel, in the case of Sherlock,
that made me wait five extra months to see the specific program that got
nominated. While a great show like Luther
gets an appropriate “BBC One” listed as its producing network, Sherlock has “PBS” following its name in
the nomination nod.
We don’t call Sherlock, “PBS Sherlock.” We call it “BBC Sherlock,” as the BBC is the responsible
party. If an American network wants to claim Holmes, let’s see how CBS’s Elementary does. FOX’s House, ever so close to Holmes in so many ways, did fine, but
just wasn’t the genuine article.
While I would love
to see Sherlock take home all
thirteen of its honors, the idea that those calcified dinosaurs at PBS should
get any congratulations for that wonderfully British show has me at odds with
myself. So I guess I’ll just hope Sherlock wins and that someone from the
BBC knocks any PBS folk off the stage when acceptance time comes.
And if that isn’t
the mindset of a crank, I don’t know what is.
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