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Lucy Liu to Play Watson to New Sherlock

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 13: Lucy Liu arrives at the Australian premiere of “Kung Fu Panda 2” at Event Cinema on George Street on June 13, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images) Photo: Lisa Maree Williams/2011 Getty Images

The relationships between recent iterations of Sherlock Holmes and his faithful sidekick Watson have been highly bromoerotic – just think of Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in the big-screen franchise, or Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in the imported Sherlock – but the new CBS version is going a different way. Southland star Lucy Liu has been cast as Watson in the modern-day pilot, Elementary, which finds her playing sober sponsor to Jonny Lee Miller’s rehabbed Sherlock in New York. They are so going to do it. (Solve crimes, that is.)

Lucy Liu to Play Watson to New Sherlock