Earlier this yr, Watson debuted on the 2025 TV schedule, giving CBS one other hit Sherlock Holmes adaptation following Elementary’s seven-season run within the 2010s. The Morris Chestnut-led medical drama was renewed for a second season again in March, although it gained’t premiere till 2026. Whereas it’s nice that Watson has carried out nicely for CBS, there’s one other TV present adapting the mythology centered round Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed detective that’s been a quiet success in current months, and I hope this results in much more folks watching it.
Sherlock & Daughter premiered on The CW stateside on April 16, and it concluded its eight-episode first season earlier this week. However even earlier than the Season 1 finale aired, the David Thewlis and Blu Hunt-led collection was a standout on each the TV community and on the streaming entrance. Selection stories that following the present changing into obtainable to stream with a Max subscription final week, it hit the #4 spot on the platform’s high 10.
Moreover, this previous week additionally noticed Sherlock & Daughter scoring its highest rankings of its debut season, rising nearly 20% since its premiere. It ranks as The CW’s primary scripted collection on linear, i.e. conventional tv, and quantity two collection on digital. The report additionally mentions that Sherlock & Daughter airs on the SBS community in Australia, and its complete viewers elevated a mean of 150% throughout its first 4 episodes. It appears secure to say that this collection classifies as a TV sleeper hit. I’ve been having fun with Sherlock & Daughter because it first arrived and hope much more folks test it out within the weeks forward now that Season 1 could be seen in its entirety.
Set in 1896, the collection follows David Thewlis’ Sherlock Holmes assembly Blu Hunt’s Amelia Rojas, a younger Native American lady from California who claims to be the detective’s daughter. Whereas Sherlock is initially distrustful of Amelia’s declare, the 2 quickly begin working collectively once they study that the current homicide of Amelia’s mom is tied to the conspiracy involving the Crimson Thread felony syndicate, which has kidnapped Dr. John Watson and Mrs. Hudson to stop Sherlock from interfering of their affairs.
Sherlock & Daughter is the second Sherlock Holmes adaptation that Thewlis has starred in, as he beforehand performed the villainous police superintendent Grail within the Netflix subscription-exclusive film Enola Holmes 2, which starred Millie Bobby Brown because the title character and Henry Cavill as Sherlock. Blunt is arguably greatest identified for taking part in Danielle Moonstar, a.okay.a. Mirage, in The New Mutants, in addition to appeared within the TV exhibits The Originals and One other Life. This collection’ different foremost solid members embody Fiona Glascott, Joe Kloeck, Aidan McAdrle and Dougray Scott.
There’s no phrase but on if Sherlock & Daughter will return for Season 2, although I’d prefer to assume that these streaming and linear stats enhance the possibilities of one other batch of episodes being order. For now, we will sit up for yet one more Sherlock Holmes TV present coming quickly, as Man Ritchie’s Younger Sherlock starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin is being put collectively for Prime Video.