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The Guardian - UK
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BBC1's Sherlock: no mystery about the Mail's reaction

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BBC1's Sherlock: hounded by the press? Photograph: Colin Hutton/Steve Brown/BBC/Hartswood Films

The Daily Mail starts the new year in typically cross fashion this morning, lamenting scenes of pre-watershed nudity on BBC1's Sherlock on New Year's Day. "It's a mystery that Sherlock Holmes himself might struggle to solve – how could the BBC think that these scenes were appropriate for a pre-watershed audience?" the Mail asks of BBC's hit show, which pulled in a bumper 10 million viewers for the first episode of the new three-part series. But was the paper so outraged by the scenes that it declined to illustrate its story with a big blow-up picture on page 9? Think again.

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