PSYCH’s Andy Berman might return to the USA Network with upcoming series SHERLOCK’S SECRETARY.
“The series follows a quirky London woman whose job is responding to the thousands of letters addressed to the world’s greatest detective,” Deadline reported. “After years of answering them, she unknowingly becomes the closest living thing to Sherlock Holmes — and begins investigating real mysteries arriving at 221B Baker Street.”
USA Network declined to comment on the show’s development. Berman previously worked with the network on PSYCH, rising from staff writer to co-executive producer, writing and directing several fan-favorite episodes.
Deadline reported that Berman is writing the pilot and will serve as showrunner and executive produce the series.
‘Psych’s Andy Berman Eyeing Return To USA Network With Procedural ‘Sherlock’s Secretary’ https://t.co/1lBy8NRshX
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SHERLOCK’S SECRETARY originated from Bruce Nash, who wrote the show after learning that “there was an actual person whose job was answering letters sent to Sherlock Holmes,” he said in a statement.
“I knew there was a television series hiding inside that story,” Nash continued. “Andy immediately saw a fresh way into the Sherlock universe, and I couldn’t be more excited to see it find a home at USA.”
Letters began arriving at the Abbey National Bank or, 221B Baker Street, in the 1930s. Rather than toss them out, the bank began employing secretaries to answer the letters, only stopping the practice when they moved locations.
“Mr. Holmes has been asked to help with Watergate and Irangate, to solve the murder of Olaf Palme, the Swedish Prime Minister, and find lost homework to prove to the teacher that the student really did it,” Nikki Caparn, Holmes’ secretary at the time, told The New York Times in 1989. “Many people know he’s not real and write tongue in cheek. But some people haven’t worked it out. The stories were written in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and Mr. Holmes would be 136 years old now, so it’s unlikely that he’d still be living here.’”
Today, 221B Baker Street is occupied by the Sherlock Holmes Museum, where they answer any letters that might arrive.
SHERLOCK’S SECRETARY is still up in the air, but with such an interesting concept — and a TV veteran like Berman’s help — it’s sure to score a slot with USA.
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