Arthur Conan Doyle

‘If you try to fix Holmes, you’ll get your arse handed to you’: do we really need another Sherlock remake?

Rafe Spall will play Conan Doyle’s super sleuth in a huge new drama next year. While some fans fear ‘Sherlock fatigue’, others – including Steven Moffat – insist he will always make great tellyIn 1893, in The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter, Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes’s older brother, Mycroft. Meeting Dr Watson for the first time, Mycroft shakes his hand and sighs: “I hear of Sherlock everywhere since you became his chronicler.”Spare a thought for the rest of us, Mycroft.

Hugh Laurie proved he actually was House MD, till he apologised

There are two kinds of people in the English-speaking world. Those who haven’t watched House MD and those who know it’s never lupus. Those who think that The Pitt is a good show and those who know that if you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

‘If you try to fix Holmes, you’ll get your arse handed to you’: do we really need another Sherlock remake?

Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read?

In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about the ways that A.I. has changed their classrooms. Most felt despair over the breakdown of a contract between student and teacher, one predicated on the faith that, even if students weren’t always perfect, they would at least challenge themselves to think every once in a while. If students rely on A.I. summaries to do their “reading” for them, if they don’t attempt to put their ideas...