For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by James JacksonSponsoredThe IrregularsNetflixOnce upon a time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales involving a Baker Street sleuth were merely a series of short stories and four novels. Then they became films, then TV series, then an entire Sherlock Holmes “universe”. Eleven years since Sherlock reinvented the idea of what a three-pipe problem could be, Netflix has offered us Enola Holmes (about a plucky young sister) and now The Irregulars, which concerns the teenage urchins who gather the unsavoury information from the street for Dr Watson (Holmes himself is elusive, which becomes its own overarching mystery). As Watson (Royce Pierreson) sternly explains to one of these young sidekicks near the start:

Source: The Times March 26, 2021 00:00 UTC