It’s nearly the end of the road for Sherlock and Joan, as CBS, along with the cast and crew of ‘Elementary‘, have decided to bring the series to a close after the upcoming 7th Season.
‘Elementary’ stars Jonny Lee Miller as detective Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Dr Joan Watson in a modern-day retelling of the crime-solving duo who crack the NYPD’s most impossible cases. Initially, sober companion and client, Watson and Holmes’ relationship evolved into a symbiotic professional investigative partnership.
“A lot of parties came together and talked about their positions on the show – both in terms of business and in terms of creative – and we all decided that this was an opportune time to say goodbye to a show that has been very, very good to us,” commented CBS Entertainment President Kelly Kahl to Deadline.
The detective drama has been a solid show for CBS over the years. Whilst the later seasons haven’t exactly set the ratings on fire in it’s native America, CBS owns the show, and it sells extremely well for them around the world. The decision to end the series came only a few weeks after the renewal for a 13-episode 7th Season, allowing the writers time to craft a fitting end to the show.
“Rob set out to tell a story, and it feels like he has accomplished what he had set out to do,” adds exec producer Carl Beverly. “The actors, the crew and the cast feel that way, and we feel that. So are grateful and celebrating what we had and looking forward to the future.”
Whilst we’ll be sorry to see ‘Elementary’ go, 7 Seasons and 154 episodes is a solid run. It would appear that it was a mutual decision between creator Rob Doherty, the crew and CBS, along with Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu. The actor’s contracts were up for renewal, meaning they would have had to commit to more seasons or bring things to an end, and they chose the latter. 7 years is a long time to play one character, and Liu has seemed eager to spend more time behind the camera recently, having directed multiple episodes of ‘Elementary’ and stepping behind the lens for the last season of ‘Luke Cage’. Jonny Lee Miller also took up directing on the series this year, along with reprising his role as Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson in ‘T2 Trainspotting’ last year. He is next due to star in an adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s sci-fi novelette ‘Nine Lives’ with Common.
‘Elementary‘ is broadcast on Sky Witness in the UK with Season 7 due to air in 2019.