{"id":36525,"date":"2025-07-31T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36525\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:26:11","slug":"robert-carlyle-to-play-sherlock-holmes-in-watson-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36525\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Carlyle to play Sherlock Holmes in Watson season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Carlyle will be the latest actor to play the legendary Sherlock Holmes. He\u2019s set to join<\/a> the second season of Watson<\/a>, the CBS medical drama starring Morris Chestnut<\/a> as Dr. John Watson. Carlyle will appear in a recurring guest role.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to have the mighty Robert Carlyle join the cast of Watson in Season 2,\u201d said Craig Sweeny, executive producer and showrunner of Watson. \u201cThe man has played iconic roles in projects like Trainspotting, The Full Monty and 28 Weeks Later, and now he steps into the shoes of the most iconic detective of all, Sherlock Holmes. When Watson\u2019s best friend and former partner makes a shocking reappearance in his life, Watson is forced to confront their shared past \u2014 and a secret that may lie buried within Watson\u2019s own body.\u201c<\/p>\n

Watson follows Dr. John Watson as he resumes his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare disorders, but Watson\u2019s old life isn\u2019t done with him.<\/p>\n

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The first season took place one year after Holmes\u2019s apparent death at the hands of his archenemy Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls, so his reappearance is a surprise. Although it always seemed inevitable that Holmes would show up, Sweeny had previously said that there were no immediate plans to feature the character in the series.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have Watson front and center, to allow that character to shine, you definitely don\u2019t want him competing with the most famous character in all of literature, so a very natural construction for me was to begin with the death of Holmes at Reichenbach Falls,\u201d Sweeny said in January. \u201cNow, of course, even in Conan Doyle\u2019s stories, Sherlock is not truly dead. My belief is that Holmes is gone. I don\u2019t want to be held to that if there\u2019s some great story that presents itself, but I don\u2019t believe that we\u2019re ever going to feature Sherlock as an ongoing character in the show, Watson at this time.\u201c<\/p>\n

The second season of Watson will premiere on October 13 on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Carlyle will be the latest actor to play the legendary Sherlock Holmes. He\u2019s set to join the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,27085,27086,27087,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-36525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-morris-chestnut","12":"tag-robert-carlyle","13":"tag-sherlock-holmes","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}