Elementary was the best of the modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations. The show was essentially a police procedural that saw Holmes and Watson assisting the police in a different case each week.

Dr Watson looked on disapprovingly as clouds of smoke rose from Sherlock Holmes’s pipe. The great detective’s latest investigation had resulted in an innocent man’s execution and Watson was concerned ...

Once I got over my surprise, though, I realized that the possibility of a storyline involving Sherlock's DNA hasn't been ruled out just because Watson cleaned the ring. We just met Mycroft Holmes ...