Steven Moffat has revealed that he thinks a female Sherlock Holmes ‘would work’.
As Doctor Who’s showrunner, Moffat is used to being asked if TV viewers will ever see a female Time Lord but at the Radio Times Festival he was quizzed whether Sherlock could ever be a woman.
He replied: ‘We would never do that because we’ve got our version but if someone wanted to do a quirky version of Sherlock Holmes and simply made Sherlock Holmes a woman – you wouldn’t even have to change the name, I don’t think you’d have to change much of the dialogue – I think it would fit.’