Acting veteran Robert Carlyle will play Sherlock Holmes in the upcoming second season of the medical procedural drama “Watson” on CBS.
Carlyle takes on the part of the legendary detective in a recurring guest-starring role opposite Morris Chestnut, who has played Dr. John Watson since the show’s pilot.
Matt Berry previously voiced the character for a hallucination scene in one episode of the first season.
Set in the modern day, the series began with the incident at Reichenbach Falls with Watson witnessing Holmes and Professor James Moriarty from a distance falling into the raging river and seemingly drowning.
Watson returns to the U.S. and opens a clinic specialising in rare and unique conditions in the wake of Holmes’ apparent death. At the end of the pilot, Moriarty (played by Randall Park) was revealed to be alive.
In the second season, Watson faces an unexpected twist when Holmes resurfaces, forcing him to confront a buried secret from his past – one that lies hidden within his own body.
Eve Harlow, Peter Mark Kendall, Ritchie Coster, Inga Schlingmann, and Rochelle Aytes co-star. Carlyle marks the second “Trainspotting” actor to play Holmes on CBS, following Johnny Lee Miller, who did so for seven seasons of “Elementary”.
“Watson” second season premieres October 13th.
Source: Variety
