{"id":832049,"date":"2026-07-29T21:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832049\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:21:14","slug":"varma-williams-gillen-join-young-sherlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832049\/","title":{"rendered":"Varma, Williams, Gillen Join &#8220;Young Sherlock&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/varma-williams-gillen-join-young-sherlock.jpg\" data-caption=\"BBC, HBO\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/varma-williams-gillen-join-young-sherlock.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"varma-williams-gillen-join-young-sherlock\"\/><\/a>BBC, HBO<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of great UK actors have been added to the cast of Guy Ritchie\u2019s \u201cYoung Sherlock\u201d series which is currently in production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGame of Thrones\u201d alums Indira Varma and Aidan Gillen along with Olivia Williams (\u201cDune: Prophecy\u201d) and Sophie Skelton (\u201cOutlander\u201d) are all joining the new run, but character specifics are under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Sherlock Holmes, breakout D\u00f3nal Finn as James Moriarty, Max Irons as Mycroft Holmes, Natascha McElhone as Sherlock\u2019s mother Cordelia, and Holly Cattle as sister Beatrice.<\/p>\n<p>Zine Tseng as Xiao Wei\/Princess Gulun Shou\u2019an, Joseph Fiennes as Sherlock\u2019s father Silas Holmes, and Numan Acar as Silas\u2019s fixer Esad Kasgarli are all out \u2013 understandable as their stories essentially finished with the first season.<\/p>\n<p>Through its first 28 days of release, the first season reached 45 million viewers and ranks among the top ten Prime Original Seasons all-time.  It was a huge international hit, reaching number 1 in over 95 countries worldwide<\/p>\n<p>Filming began in late May with some taking place on location in Palermo, Italy.  Matthew Parkhill returns as showrunner.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/young-sherlock-season-2-cast-sophie-skelton-indira-varma-1237006177\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/cooper-hoffman-denies-x-men-rumor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Hoffman Denies X-Men Rumor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/reacher-season-5-sets-cast-source-book\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cReacher\u201d Season 5 Sets Cast, Source Book<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC, HBO A bunch of great UK actors have been added to the cast of Guy Ritchie\u2019s \u201cYoung&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,427],"class_list":["post-832049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}