Archery Pictures & Fremantle Launch Moriarty TV Drama
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- Archery Pictures will co‑produce a new TV drama tentatively titled “Moriarty” with Fremantle, which will also handle global sales.
- Moriarty is reimagined as a criminal‑psychology professor at Durham University who secretly leads sophisticated crimes in Northern England.
- Detective Imogen Burrows is paired with Moriarty as a stoic Yorkshire detective, forming a team while she grows suspicious of his true identity.
- Chris Cornwell, writer of “A Discovery of Witches”, is attached to write the series, with Oliver Lansley also contributing.
- Kris Thykier, founder of Archery Pictures, said the series will show what it takes to be a criminal genius, blending genre thrills with dark psychology.
- Rebecca Dundon, SVP for scripted content at Fremantle, said the project has huge potential as a commercial, returning franchise and a fresh spin on procedural crime.
- Sherlock Holmes stories entered the public domain on Jan 1 2023, enabling new adaptations like the Moriarty spin‑off.
Why it matters: The series gives Archery Pictures and Fremantle a fresh, potentially lucrative franchise built on a now‑public‑domain Sherlock Holmes villain, while offering viewers a novel procedural twist; it also underscores how the 2023 copyright expiration opens new commercial avenues for the franchise.
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