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Date Posted: 04/ 1/04 5:54am
Author: Bix
Subject: Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie... Holmes and Watson?

I would have thought this to be an April Fool's joke, if not for the fact that it was released on the BBC website on the 30th.

No offense to Fry, but Sherlock Holmes is characterized by his "gauntness" and Fry's a bit far away from that. Actor Jeremy Brett, who took over the role in the 1980s, at least started out the role skinny; he grew larger at the end of his career because he had heart disease, and died in 1997 of heart failure (cool side note--I got a letter from him the month before he died).

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Comedy duo Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are set to reunite to play Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in a one-off drama for ITV1. The pair met at Cambridge University in the 1980s and have co-starred in TV shows including Jeeves and Wooster and A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

Fry, who is known to be a keen Sherlock fan, will play the Victorian detective, with Laurie as his loyal sidekick.

ITV has yet to confirm the project but the duo are believed to be on board.

"Stephen is absolutely passionate about Sherlock Holmes and Hugh will make a superb Watson," ITV1's Nick Elliott told The Daily Mirror.

The channel hopes to screen the £2m film in 2005, but has yet to finalise contractual details.

Actors who have recently played Sherlock Holmes include Richard Roxburgh in BBC One's film adaptation of the Hound of the Baskervilles, and Jeremy Brett, who starred in ITV's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Brett's interpretation of Holmes proved popular with the British public and he returned to the role through the 1980s. He last played Conan Doyle's literary hero in 1994's The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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