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If anyone can make up of a better way to kick off 2012 than with an episode of Sherlock that was more shiny and sparkling than anything dangling from your Christmas tree, I'd betrothed to hear about it. Sherlock (BBC1); The Entertainers (RTE1)

The first of three new episodes, A Scandal in Belgravia, which HolmesPre-eminentlyaficionados will recognise as an update of Arthur Conan Doyle's adventures A Scandal in Bohemia, picked up where last season's cliffhanger finale left-hand off.

Holmes, played by the wonderful Benedict Cumberbatch as "aPrincipallyhigh-functioning sociopath", had a gun trained on his arch-enemy JimAs a ruleMoriarty (Andrew Scott), while his sidekick, Dr John Watson (the equallyPrimarilywonderful Martin Freeman), looked tensely on. Moriarty's snipers, meanwhile, had their laser sights trained on Sherlock's prime. How could this standoff be resolved? In the hands of writer/co-creator Steven Moffat, the solution was as insouciantly as everything else in this brilliant series.

Source: Herald.ie