TV
THE IRREGUL ARS
Holmes makeover show
EPISODES 1.01-1.08 “Sherlock Holmes is a wanker!” It’s not the sort of line you usually hear in a Sherlock Holmes adaptation. But this is not your average Holmes story. It’ll give purists the fits.
Holmes’s street-kid informants the Baker Street Irregulars are foregrounded, aged up to potty-mouthed teens: Bea (determined), her sister Jessie (psychic), and friends Billy (angry) and Spike (er, give us a minute… nice). They’re soon joined by Leo (knowledgeable) – aka Queen Victoria’s youngest Prince Leopold, who somehow sneaks out of Buck House unnoticed with laughable regularity.