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Mar 12 #7 The BBC has reported that filming on the third "Sherlock" sea-
son will begin early next year. One reason for the hiatus, of
course, is that the stars have other work: Benedict Cumberbatch is filming
the next "Star Trek" movie and Martin Freeman is working on "The Hobbit".
In the meantime, "Masterpiece" is running a count-down clock for the sec-
ond season (which starts on May 6), with a variety of video and other links
that include a "reader discretion advised" interview with Cumberbatch and a
feature on Andrew Scott (who definitely is one of the more imaginative Mor-
iartys). The series will be released in the U.S. on Blu-ray and DVD on May
22 with the three new episodes, audio commentary for the first two, and a
behind-the-scenes featurette ("Sherlock Uncovered").
The Browser bills itself as a "21st-century library of Writing Worth Read-
ing", and one of its offerings is an interview with Michael Dirda about the
world of Sherlockians and about his favorite Sherlockian and Doylean books
.
"Sherlock Holmes Complains about Fake Sherlock Holmeses" is an amusing two-
minute video spotted by Lloyd Rose at YouTube .
The latest issue of Carolyn and Joel Senter's The Sherlockian E-Times will
be found at , offering Sherlock-
iana, old and new, books and much more, including news and views of society
meetings, and a CD recording of the late Art Schroeder's audio drama "The
Forgotten Victim" (the story of "The Speckled Band" as told by the snake).
"Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus" is a work-in-progress discovered
by Karen Murdock at ; there's a two-minute trailer
for a planned interactive book.
Martin Breese died on Feb. 23. He was an important figure in the world of
magicians, as a historian and a publisher of books, CDs, and DVDs, and in
1995 began publishing a series of Sherlockian pastiches written by fellow
magician Val Andrews and others; in 2005 he sold his mystery series to An-
tony J. Richards, but maintained his enthusiastic interest in magic.
The Société Sherlock Holmes de France now holds a record for the most fre-
quent Sherlockian society publication: their attractive Ironmongers Daily
News appears daily (in French) via the Internet, and you can subscribe at
their web-site without charge.
There are 166 scripts available for download from The Generic Radio Work-
shop's Vintage Radio Script Library , five from the
long-running "Sherlock Holmes" series (1939-1947).
There seems to be no end to interesting uses of the Internet: companies are
making full-length films and uploading them to YouTube for viewing or down-
loading without charge; you can even skip most of the commercials. One of
the films is "Sherlock Holmes" (2011), length 77 minutes, produced by Anton
Pictures, inspired by Universal's "The Woman in Green" (1945), directed by
George Anton, with Kevin Glaser (Sherlock Holmes) and Charles Simon (Wat-
son). You can find it at . Thanks
to Thierry Saint-Joanis for his report on the film.