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It's day 6 of 56 ahead of what's widely being tipped as the biggest Sherlock Holmes debate ever and here's an update of how the teams are shaping up. The audience fan page is growing well too with (at time of writing) 174 people registered from over 20 countries around the world - although around half those registered so far are from the USA. The audience tickets (80) will be released in a few weeks time on the Great Debate Facebook page. Several society heavyweights, authors and a film director have joined in the first week and rumours of several...

After several Holmes heavyweights joined the side of the BBC's Sherlock, the Guy Ritchie side was looking a little light - but no more. Gerry O'Hara has worked with some of the most famous actors of all time from Laurence Olivier (Richard III) to Joan Collins (The Bitch) and has directed many Hollywood movies - including working on the Academy Award winning Tom Jones. He's no stranger to television either having worked on The Avengers, The Professionals, Hammer House of Horror, Cats Eyes and a host of other programmes. He's a record breaker too. He wrote the adaptation of the...

It's day 4 since The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate was announced (10th November - BBC's Sherlock vs Guy Ritchie's movies) and we are attracting some extremely exciting participants. We are in talks with a Hollywood film director's agent who wants to join the movies team - as soon as we have that finalised we'll be able to reveal who it is - with dozens of films under his belt he's a legend, but as you can imagine his diary is a nightmare to schedule. Hope to have news this evening on that. We can however announce today a real coup....

We talk to thousands of Sherlock Holmes fans and everyone has an opinion on the BBC's Sherlock series and the two films from Guy Richie. We are also fortunate to hear the views of some of the world's leading Holmes experts and of course about twenty of our own authors. When Charlotte Walters decided to mark the launch of her debut novel, Barefoot on Baker Street, this Tuesday 20th September, with a stunning challenge to write about each of the 56 Holmes stories, one a day until 11th November, we wondered how we could mark the occasion. The Great Sherlock...