"Pretty much the first thing you get [when you read a script] is just overall how extraordinarily..."

“Pretty much the first thing you get [when you read a script] is just overall how extraordinarily brilliant the imagination and the amount of work that’s gone into this sort of creation, this furtherment, I suppose, of the Conan Doyle originals is, and involves…and then you start picking out the details that relate to the original stories, and then, just beautiful little character arcs - some are remarkably long term in their planning. So we’re getting payoffs in this series that - you know, are to do with how this began.”

- Benedict Cumberbatch, BBC Breakfast (x)