Watson Lives Again in New Sherlock Spinoff

There are high-achieving workaholics - and there is Anthony Horowitz. Not only did the 56-year-old Londoner have a hand in writing some of the most popular British television shows of the past 25 years, among them Midsomer Murders and Agatha Christie's Poirot, he also created Foyle's War, a crime drama set in the Second World War - a show with such colossal grass-roots appeal that the eruption of anger after ITV summarily axed it in 2007 meant it was recommissioned, pronto.