Elementary
Imagine if you will, the producer, the director and a few writers are engaged in the initial plot development session for Elementary. This cop drama is now in its 3 rd season and has enjoyed a great deal of critical acclaim. Director: "We need our Sherlock character to be as unique as possible to separate us from the Sherlock in the BBC series that just aired. Obviously our guy has to possess unrealistic super-human powers of deduction, but he's going to need something special beyond that." Writer no. 1: "Well, cocaine abuse has been part of every Sherlock rip-off since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Maybe our Sherlock can be fresh out of rehab – that's not been done before." Producer: "Yeah and Dr. Watson can be there to hold his hand and keep him on the straight and narrow." Writer no. 2: "And our Watson can be a broad!" Director: "That'd be good but it's more critical to make our Sherlock un