Holmes and Watson will be back solving cases next season. CBS has renewed the Elementary TV show for a fourth season.
A contemporary update on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle characters, Elementary follows eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Doctor Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) as they help solve crimes in New York. Aidan Quinn and Jon Michael Hill co-star.
The series has taken a big hit in the ratings this year. The third season is averaging a 1.29 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 7.44 million viewers. That’s down by 25% in the demo and down by 15% in total viewers.
Still, it seemed a certainty that Elementary would be renewed for a fourth year. The next season’s installments will give the crime drama enough episodes for a potentially lucrative syndication package.
What do you think? Do you like the Elementary TV show? Do you think the fourth season should be its last? Would you like to see any changes made to the show — to help attract better ratings?
One of my favorite shows, but might be a little too smart for the room.
I LOVE ELEMENTARY!!! I am so happy that it will be here another season and hopefully many more to come. There is a plethora of ingenious mysteries that Holmes and Watson can solve. Jonny Miller is a natural in portraying this genius with the propensity to eccentricity. Lucy Liu is a great choice to equalize the mania. LOVE IT!!!!
Love, love, love this show – my absolute favourite, characters are awesome! Very well written and hope for it to continue for many seasons to come! Lucy lui and Jonny Miller are brilliant!!
Brilliant show watched it from the beginning just gets better with each season although i hear joan watson may not be returning for season 4 and holmes father will fill in
I love this show and think it should not be cancelled ever, although I am a little disappointed that lucy liu will no longer be in it as I feel there is no holmes without Watson, I shall however continue watching
Supremely happy Elementary was renewed. Glad Kitty’s gone. I love the way Jonny portrays Sherlock. He’s always been otherworldly in his amazing deductions (in Doyle ‘ s books). I, too, have difficulty once in awhile deciphering his speech because much of it is a low staccato monotone. Love him and the show nonetheless!
I really like this show a lot. I would be severely disappointed if it were to be discontinued.
The characters have grown on me and I look forward to each new episode.
I have read all the Sherlock Holmes short stories and 4 novels many times. Love them. So i was a bit dubious about it being transformed to now, in New york and a female Watson. But i have to say it is great. Really superb. I think Lucy Lui makes the show. Apart from being exceptionally beautiful she plays the part really well. Long may it reign.
You have exceptional taste, Lucy Liu indeed makes the show. A female Watson, brilliant; a Lucy Liu Watson a masterpiece I will cherish forever. Fell hopelessly in love with her when she took America by storm in the Aly McBeal TV series with Callista Flockhart. And she is a NYC Queens neighbor of mine.
Very Lucky Neighbour. Fell in Love with her myself . 3000 miles away here in England.
CBS has NOT renewed Elementary for a fourth season!!
Yes, they have. http://wp.me/pcisc-9xF
I love the show . I am so happy there’s going to be a 4th season and hopefully a 5th and 6th .
Just brilliant!!!! I’m living in South Africa and download each episode as soon as it is available. Hope Mariati will feature more in season 4
Love Elementary! Hated Kitty, was extremely glad when she went out!
I thought Season 3 with Kitty was brilliant. I love the eradict wild crazed Holmes –meaning I think Johnny Lee Miller really gets into character; and I like that he is becoming more human. Sometimes I would like Lucy Lui to have a bit more punch–a wee bit more emotion, but then, she is the calm compliment to his intensity. Excellent writers–very creative stories.
I love this show so much and I am absolutely DELIGHTED for the 4th season. I have been championing it since the beginning! It is so well written, thoughtfully directed- the props, the attention to detail, the ACTING. It is so much better than Sherlock or even any other “crime show” on to compare it to. Ive never had a problem understanding JLM but I am british too. I also found myself really loving Lucy Liu after the show started too, it really showcases her talent. The Kitty plot was disjointed- and it felt rushed, and lopsided with Joan moving… Read more »
Great series! Look forward to it weekly. Glad I’m not the only one having trouble occasionally understanding Miller. Acting and writing among best on TV. I do have a little trouble believing Holmes can deduce clues as he does.
One of my favourite shows in the past decade,if not longer.
Personally I don’t have a problem with Johnny Lee Miller’s speaking, but then I am british and I speak at a rate of knots myself . I think it’s a great part of his portrayal, gets the “manicness” (is that a word?) over.
I actually really liked Kitty and her backstrory during the time she was on the show, not sure why people think it detracted .
Really glad we’re getting a 4th season, hope for more after that.