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Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #9 – Sherlock Holmes

14 May 2012 5:18 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

You can keep your Cumberbatch and Rathbone. Of the 75-odd actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on screen, Jeremy Brett is the man

You can keep Basil Rathbone, fond as I am of him. You can keep Robert Downey, Jr, Benedict Cumberbatch and Peter Cushing. You can even keep Michael Caine in Without A Clue (my secret favourite portrayal of Sherlock Holmes on the big screen). You know why you can keep them? Because, in exchange, I get Jeremy Brett, the Sherlock for the connoisseurs.

Jeremy Brett is the Sherlock Holmes of my childhood, and perhaps (as with the Doctor or James Bond) we simply attach ourselves to the first one we see. But I don't think so. In the ITV series which began in 1984, and ran until a year before Brett's early death in 1995, Sherlock Holmes was as close to his literary roots as he has ever been on screen. »

- Natalie Haynes

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Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #9 – Sherlock Holmes

14 May 2012 5:18 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

You can keep your Cumberbatch and Rathbone. Of the 75-odd actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on screen, Jeremy Brett is the man

You can keep Basil Rathbone, fond as I am of him. You can keep Robert Downey, Jr, Benedict Cumberbatch and Peter Cushing. You can even keep Michael Caine in Without A Clue (my secret favourite portrayal of Sherlock Holmes on the big screen). You know why you can keep them? Because, in exchange, I get Jeremy Brett, the Sherlock for the connoisseurs.

Jeremy Brett is the Sherlock Holmes of my childhood, and perhaps (as with the Doctor or James Bond) we simply attach ourselves to the first one we see. But I don't think so. In the ITV series which began in 1984, and ran until a year before Brett's early death in 1995, Sherlock Holmes was as close to his literary roots as he has ever been on screen. »

- Natalie Haynes

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Catch-up TV Guide: From Mobile Suit Gundam to Lucian Freud: Painted Life

24 February 2012 4:04 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

TV: Mobile Suit Gundam

Streaming on YouTube's TV channel you'll find four series of Japanese space saga Gundam. It's a classic of the "plucky young chap learns to pilot a giant robot from inside a cockpit in its head" genre. 1979's Mobile Suit Gundam was the first, with the Principality of Zeon launching a war of independence against the Earth Federation – starting a massive franchise that's still going today.

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TV: Being Human

The first three episodes of series four are online if you want to say your goodbyes to Russell Tovey and see how the housemates deal with parenthood. Episode 1 is available until 1 April.

BBC iPlayer

TV: The Good Wife

The brilliant Parker Posey pops up as the ex-wife of Eli (Alan Cumming) to throw a cattery into the pigeon coop of this Julianna Margulies legal vehicle.

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TV: The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff

Sporadically inspired Dickensian comedy larks with Robert Webb, »

- Richard Vine, Stuart Goodwin

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TV highlights 20/02/12

19 February 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

The Love of Books | The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff | Clinton | Watson & Oliver | Spartacus: Vengeance | My Social Network Stalker

The Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story

10pm, BBC4

As definitions of noble heroism go, it's hard to top sprinting through the sniper fire of ignorant maniacs in order to carry boxfuls of books to safety. This is exactly what was done by the staff of Sarajevo's Gazi Husrev-beg library during the siege of the Bosnian capital in the early 1990s. Dramatic reconstructions – usually a blight on documentaries – work well here, recalling with heartbreaking plausibility the fear and denial that engulf civilised people when their world is consumed by lunacy. Andrew Mueller

The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

8.30pm, BBC2

Robert Webb and Katherine Parkinson return for three new episodes of the rip-snorting historical romp that puts a banger up Dickens. Now over his festive difficulties at debtors' prison, Jedrington Secret-Past »

- Andrew Mueller, Julia Raeside, Phelim O'Neill, Clare Considine, Jonathan Wright, John Robinson

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TV highlights 20/01/2012

19 January 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Mendelssohn Weekend | Room 101 | New Girl | Law & Order: UK | Stella | 30 Rock

Mendelssohn Weekend From 7pm, Sky Arts 2

Mendelssohn is most embedded in our consciousness nowadays as the composer of the Wedding March, but he is most remarkable as a child prodigy, who already had four operas and 13 string symphonies under his belt by the time he was 18. This themed weekend starts with the documentary Mendelssohn Unknown, which explores his correspondence with his sister Fanny, his relationship with Bach and frequent, raging tantrums. It's followed by a performance of his best-loved works by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, one of the oldest in the world, who were

once conducted by the composer himself. David Stubbs

Room 101 8.30pm, BBC1

The format has been revamped. Frank Skinner is in the chair and, rather than chance the quality of an edition on a single guest, they've spread their bets across a panel of three, »

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