Prime Video recently released the teaser trailer and premiere date for Young Sherlock, starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin – best known for his role in the After series – as Sherlock Holmes. The thrilling series is about the origin story of the detective, unfolding in 1870s Oxford before venturing abroad. It follows 19-year-old Holmes and his early adventures as he attends the University of Oxford. The trailer displays iconic parts of Oxford, such as the Radcliffe Camera and New College’s cloisters and courtyard, which are also featured in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Filming for the show saw a five-day closure of Merton Street, Oriel Square, King Edward Street, Queens Lane, New College Lane, and Catte Street in August 2024. There is no definitive evidence in Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes works that the detective attended Oxford University, most scholars and writers suggest he attended either Cambridge or Oxford, for example; Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A life of The World’s First Consulting Detective, by William S. Baring-Gould and Sherlock Holmes at Oxford, by Nicholas Utechin.
Oxfordshire County Council’s press office told Cherwell that they received “£2,644 plus VAT for the SEO (road closure Notice) & £5,810 plus VAT for the filming approval licence”.
All eight of Young Sherlock’s episodes will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories across the globe on 4th March. The television show is the long-awaited third installment of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock series, which he produced and directed for its first two episodes. Guy Ritchie previously directed Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), both starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams.Young Sherlock is the prequel to both of these films.
The series focuses on Sherlock’s first murder case, which he subsequently finds himself wrapped up in as it threatens his freedom, and he is sent on a worldwide mission in an attempt to solve it. Young Sherlock is expected to reveal an unfiltered, rebellious side to the character, with Prime Video reflecting on his character in the show as a “raw” and “disgraced young man”. Prime Video also describes the series as an “action-laden mystery that follows the iconic detective’s early adventures”.
The show will also star Colin Firth (Mamma Mia and The King’s Speech), Dónal Finn (The Wheel of Time), Zine Tseng (3 Body Problem), Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale), Natascha McElhone (Halo), and Max Irons (Condor).
