{"id":22436,"date":"2025-04-02T11:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/harry-king-television-developing-true-sherlock\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T11:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:17:53","slug":"harry-king-television-developing-true-sherlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/harry-king-television-developing-true-sherlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry King Television Developing True Sherlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry King Television has picked up the rights to adapt Nicholas Sercombe\u2019s book series <em>The Unexpurgated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes<\/em> as <em>True Sherlock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The series, made up of four feature-length episodes, will star Oli Higginson (<em>Bridgerton<\/em>, <em>The Last Five Years<\/em>) as Sherlock Holmes and Will Kemp (<em>El Turco<\/em>, <em>Spinning Out<\/em>, <em>Reign<\/em>) as Moriarty. It will explore the origins of Holmes, Watson, Mrs. Hudson and Professor Moriarty.<\/p>\n<p>In the first feature, <em>A Balls-Up in Bohemia<\/em>, Holmes embarks on an adventure of blackmail and romance for an esteemed royal client, while Watson tries to extricate himself from an embarrassing marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Sercombe, CEO of Harry King Television, will serve as showrunner. Nigel Wooll (<em>T\u00e1r<\/em>, <em>Arabian Nights<\/em>, <em>G.I. Jane<\/em>), Mark Sandell (<em>A Liar\u2019s Autobiography<\/em>, <em>Absolutely Anything<\/em>) and Jon Turtle (<em>Bat 21<\/em>, <em>Nightmare on Elm Street 3,4,5<\/em>) will produce the series with Sercombe.<\/p>\n<p>Shooting is scheduled to begin for the series in the U.K. in January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Sercombe said, \u201cSherlock fans\u2026 get ready! We are excited to reintroduce Conan Doyle\u2019s iconic characters and stories, with a very human touch and modern twist. The stories are ripe for rediscovery, and <em>True Sherlock<\/em> is the perfect opportunity to re-engage audiences. With plenty of action, humor and romance, we are delighted to deliver these new adaptations played by a talented young cast. More news to come soon\u2014this case is wide open!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry King Television has picked up the rights to adapt Nicholas Sercombe\u2019s book series The Unexpurgated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as True Sherlock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":22437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[10433,10434,10435,10436],"class_list":["post-22436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-harry-king-television","tag-nicholas-sercombe","tag-the-unexpurgated-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes","tag-true-sherlock","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Harry King Television Developing True Sherlock - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/harry-king-television-developing-true-sherlock\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harry King Television Developing True Sherlock - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Harry King Television has picked up the rights to adapt Nicholas Sercombe\u2019s book series The Unexpurgated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as True Sherlock.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/harry-king-television-developing-true-sherlock\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-02T15:17:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-02T15:17:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/04\/HarryKingTelevision-TrueSherlock-0425.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/harry-king-television-developing-true-sherlock\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/harry-king-television-developing-true-sherlock\/\",\"name\":\"Harry King Television Developing True Sherlock - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-02T15:17:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-02T15:17:53+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/harry-king-television-developing-true-sherlock\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/harry-king-television-developing-true-sherlock\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/harry-king-television-developing-true-sherlock\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Harry King Television Developing True Sherlock\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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