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UPFRONTS 2013: TV Spinoffs’ Almost Perfect Year 
EXCLUSIVE: Hot off directing the pilot for Showtime’s acclaimed new drama series Homeland, which he also executive produces, Michael Cuesta has signed an overall deal with CBS TV Studios. Under the seven-figure pact, which starts immediately and runs through June 1, 2013, Cuesta will direct and executive produce the studio’s contemporary Sherlock Holmes drama pilot Elementary. He will also develop for next season, probably with his brother Gerald Cuesta, with whom he did the cult 2007 CBS/20th TV zombie pilot Babylon Fields. Michael Cuesta will likely write a pilot, which he will direct if greenlighted. If not, he will helm another pilot for CBS TV Studios next season. The overall deal won’t interfere with Cuesta’s duties on Homeland, on which he will continue as executive producer and primary director at least through Season 2. Cuesta recently received a DGA nomination for helming the pilot of the Golden Globe-winning series.
The pact reunites WME-repped Cuesta with CBS TV Studios after he directed the pilot for the studio’s CBS drama series Blue Bloods. He also directed the pilot of another hit series, Showtime’s Dexter. Elementary is described as a modern take on the cases of the pipe-smoking private eye created by Arthur Conan Doyle, with Sherlock now living in New York City. Veteran Medium writer-producer Doherty wrote the script and is executive producing with Cuesta, Sarah Timberman & Carl Beverly.
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Love Cuesta, but ANOTHER version of Holmes?!?
Guy Ritchie’s is fun. Moffet & Gatis’ is pretty much perfect!
I’d let the dust settle on those before offering us a 3rd version.
Seriously. I heard they went out to him on the reconceived LOGJAMMERS, LOGJAMMIER, and he chose this instead? Cuesta and his team need to start thinking about quality over mass consumption.
The BBC version of Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman is perfection. I don’t know why the studios here in the US always think they can copy/match or outdo something the UK has already put it’s mark on. I for one will not be watching any Sherlock put out here.
Really?
There’s studio heads getting paid millions of dollars a year and this is the best they can do? ANOTHER Sherlock Holmes thing?
Seriously?
Oh…….wait a minute. Unlike the butcher job they did trying to remake Life on Mars, they’re just going to do a butcher jobe on a “reimagination”.
Cuesta deserves better material — CBS is lucky to have him, but don’t expect any awards.
Such a terrible idea, I roll my eyes whenever I hear about it. I really can’t be bothered giving it a chance. Fair? Maybe not, but that’s what happens when you are third out of the gate after the fun movie version and the brilliant Cumberbatch and Freeman version. Cuesta deserves better…and so does the audience.
Great move by CBS. Cuesta is a very talented director.
Nothing like copying the BBC.
Expect a lawsuit soon
Yep. So said S. Moffat.
I bet the descendants of Arthur Conan Doyle are beating themselves over the head that Sherlock is in the public domain. They don’t get a dime on all these versions of Holmes.
Which is exactly why you’re seeing all this fairy tale shit (Grimm, Once Upon a Time, Hansel and Gretel, etc) lately, by the way; nobody owns that stuff.
All that said, I like the sleek Benedict Cumberbatch UK TV version of Holmes best; way better than the overdone Downey/steampunk movie version.
I really don’t understand why the hell you wanna make something that will always be in the shadow of something else.
on one hand, I’m saddened by yet another example of Hollywood’s lack of programming ideas. There’s already the Guy Ritchie movies, BBC Sherlock, House MD, Psych, and The Mentalist in terms of Sherlock Holmes remakes or contemporary reimaginings. On the other hand, its better than yet another “reality” show, so it could be worse.
I hope it bombs. I wont be watching thats for sure. Nothing will beat the brilliant UK version and the amazing Benedict Cumberbatch
I really and truly hope that Moffat and Gatiss file a lawsuit. Their version of Holmes is brilliance; this is why American TV is floundering. “The BBC has a great show, let’s ‘reimagine’ it!” Ugh, talk about over- saturating the market. I know I won’t be watching.
How about coming up with a really new idea for a tv show. I would love a job at CBS, I could watch all the shows created by the BBC and then just say, “let’s put a new spin on this” and I’d rake in the money. Are there any openings in the creative department because I don’t think they know the definition of the word.
BBC isn’t the first company to create a modern day Sherlock Holmes. In fact, CBS even did it before them. People need to relax. Sherlock Holmes has been played by hundreds of actors. There’s hundreds of versions. There’s dozens of adaptions. No matter what, it’s been done. If you think CBS is the only company cashing in on the current Sherlock Holmes trend, you’re sadly mistaken. Even BBC’s Sherlock was aired after the 2009 Richie film to coast along its fame; BBC just managed to take off with their own fan base. Maybe CBS will manage a similar feat, and maybe the show will implode halfway into its first season. Really, who cares? If they make it and you like it, you only win. If they make it and they get canceled, who loses? They do. They lose lots and lots of money.