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‘Elementary’ vs. ‘Sherlock’: Why There’s Room for More Than One Holmes

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The game may be afoot for more than one Sherlock Holmes, but that’s not a problem, says Allen Barra, who compares CBS’s Super Bowl-bound Elementary to PBS’s smash hit Sherlock.

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“There is nothing new under the sun,” the snottiest detective in all of literature told his assistant, Dr. Watson, 125 years ago in A Study in Scarlet.

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