"Do your research!"

These two make me want to quit my late-night, lately developed habit of fighting insomnia by junking out on Mills & Boons. 
(July alone managed to cover To Catch A Thief; The Rancher Next Door; More Than A Memory; Marriage: To Claim His Twins; A Father For Her Son; Bedside Manner; The Italian's One-Night Love Child... )

The reworking of Conan Doyle's infamous literary hero into the BBC's Sherlock allows for some excellent escapism. And thanks to Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss being such fans of Conan Doyle's work, the reworking is carried out cleverly and humorously whilst staying loyal to the text. So there's no need to be shouting 'Treachery!' at the tv screen.

AWESOME

(Plus a few stills from Den of Geek ;
... & a ridiculously cute bit of lj fandom art. :D )

If I wanted to, I could probably find some minor aspect to grumble over but I won't because Cumberbatch and Freeman breathe exactly the right kind of life into the characters of Holmes and Watson.

Den of Geek: 

Were you fans of the book before you landed the roles in Sherlock? Did you go back to the books to prepare, or did you avoid that?

Benedict Cumberbatch:  No, very much I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books. I don't think what we're doing requires that, in particular, because it's a modern interpretation. But, you have to bring what is unique about his character to a modern context, and to do that you have to understand his original self.

So no sudden shock departure from Holmes as we have known him and for once, a reworking that does the book complete justice.
I'm happy. It's definitely time for an overdue revisit for my ongoing romance with Arthur Conan Doyle and his canon.