{"id":19488,"date":"2023-10-23T10:29:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/sherlock-co-creator-adapting-lot-no-249-bbc\/"},"modified":"2023-10-23T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:57:59","slug":"sherlock-co-creator-adapting-lot-no-249-for-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/sherlock-co-creator-adapting-lot-no-249-for-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherlock Co-Creator Adapting Lot No. 249 for the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sherlock<\/em> co-creator Mark Gatiss is adapting Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s short horror story<em> Lot No. 249<\/em> for BBC Two.<\/p>\n<p>The story revolves around a group of Oxford students, one of whom undertakes research into the secrets of Ancient Egypt and hopes to breathe life into a horrifying bag of bones that are part of the mysterious Lot No. 249. Kit Harington (<em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, <em>Gunpowder<\/em>) and Freddie Fox (<em>The Great<\/em>,<em> Slow Horses<\/em>) are set to star.<\/p>\n<p>The cast also includes Colin Ryan (<em>Boundless<\/em>), John Heffernan (<em>Dracula<\/em>), James Swanton (<em>Stopmotion<\/em>), Jonathan Rigby (<em>Father Brown<\/em>) and Andrew Horton (<em>Slotherhouse<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Principal photography recently concluded on the project, which filmed in Hertfordshire. It is produced by Adorable Media for BBC Arts and is set to air on BBC Two this Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a serious delight for me to delve once again into the brilliant work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this time for the Christmas Ghost story,\u201d Gatiss said. \u201c<em>Lot No. 249<\/em> is a personal favorite and is the grand-daddy (or should that be mummy?) of a particular kind of end-of-Empire chiller: a ripping yarn packed with ghastly scares and who-knows-what lurking in the Victorian closet\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss is adapting Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s short horror story Lot No. 249 for BBC Two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":19489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[7878,7879,237,3898,99,7880,1681,7881,2840],"class_list":["post-19488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-adorable-media","tag-arthur-conan-doyle","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-arts","tag-bbc-two","tag-freddie-fox","tag-kit-harington","tag-lot-no-249","tag-mark-gatiss","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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