PRIX EUROPA
Best Episode of a Television Fiction Series or Serial of the Year 2011
SHERLOCK - A STUDY IN PINK
Entering organisation: British Broadcasting Corporation - BBC
Country: United Kingdom
Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss (Authors), Paul McGuigan, Toly Haynes, Euros Lyn (Directors), Steve Lawes (Camera), Beryl Vertue (Ex. Producer), Ben Stephenson (Commissioning editor), Sue Vertue (Producer), Hartswood Films for BBC,
Masterpiece, WGBH (Co-Producers)
JURY CITATION
"A fresh adaptation of a timeless classic is visually inventive and made in arresting style that bring well known characters to a new audience. A remarkable and loveable cast keeps this story new and involving. A charming friendship story is brought to the screen in adventurous and dynamic way."
Synopsis
Sherlock Holmes was always a modern man. It's the world that got old. Now he's back as he should be: edgy, contemporary, difficult - and dangerous!
John Watson: Doctor. Soldier. War hero. Fresh from military service in Afghanistan, a chance encounter brings him into the world of Sherlock.
Holmes: Loner. Detective. Genius. The two men couldn't be more different, but Sherlock's inspired leaps of intellect coupled with John's pragmatism soon forge an unbreakable alliance.
A woman in pink lies dead in a derelict house. The fourth in a series of impossible suicides D.I. Lestrade is the best Scotland Yard has got. But even he knows he can't compare to the young man who can tell a software designer by his tie, an airline pilot by his thumb. Sherlock has a unique analytical mind, earning his living and staving off boredom by solving crimes. The weirder and more baffling the better...