Elementary /

Elementary is an American television series that is scheduled to premiere on CBS on September 27, 2012. It presents a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories set in the United States. It stars Jonny Lee Miller as Holmes and Lucy Liu as Watson. In Elementary, Holmes is a former consultant to Scotland Yard, and an addict who travels to New York City to check into a rehabilitation center and stays on in Brooklyn with a newly-found sober companion Joan Watson. Rob Doherty will serve as an executive producer and the series' showrunner, with Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly also serving as executive producers. Beverly, who "initially was the one who brought up the possibility of developing a Sherlock show" according to Doherty, spoke about the relationship between Sherlock and Watson in Elementary in July 2012: In January 2012, Sue Vertue of Hartswood Films, the company that produces Sherlock, said, "We understand that CBS are doing their own version of an updated Sherlock Holmes. It's interesting, as they approached us a while back about remaking our show. At the time, they made great assurances about their integrity, so we have to assume that their modernised Sherlock Holmes doesn't resemble ours in any way, as that would be extremely worrying."