CBS chooses Jonny Lee Miller for its version of Sherlock Holmes, gives us another excuse to talk about Hackers

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CBS’s plans to take Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stodgy old Sherlock Holmes and at last air some of the British out of him with Elementary—creating a freer, New York-based version of the famed detective who may have the answer to every mystery, but who won’t have an accent that makes him sound all posh and snobby about it—could well have been compromised with today’s announcement that English actor Jonny Lee Miller has been chosen for the lead. Although Miller has played American many times before, his hiring suggests that CBS’ modernized take on the character might also be British, and that the show may have had a different source of inspiration than our nations’ long-simmering transatlantic cultural war.