Worldwide Sherlock obsession

It seems that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s imagination has given birth to a character that was meant for the movies, with Sherlock Holmes being featured in so many screen adaptations over such a short period of time.

Following the BBC's triumphant Sherlock series and the American movie franchise starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, Americans and Russians are set to present even more takes on Britain’s best-known private detective.

American network CBS has given its interpretation of Conan Doyle’s stories the name “Elementary,” The Hollywood Reporter writes. The series will take the detective from mid-19th-century London to present-day New York.

And Russians are also working on their next Sherlock Holmes project, which is expected to be released at the end of the year. Actors Igor Petrenko (Holmes) and Andrey Panin (Watson) will face the tough challenge of overcoming their predecessors Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin, who played Holmes and Dr. Watson in the massively popular Soviet screen adaptation series released between 1979 and 1986.