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Home > Drama > Doctor Who & Sherlock go head to head at National Television Awards – as will Matt Smith & Benedict Cumberbatch! January 8th, 2013 by Lisa McGarry. The National Television Awards will take place later this month and it seems there will be some serious competition in some of the categories this year. Stars and crew from some of the year’s biggest TV hits and most popular dramas and soaps will be at the 2013 awards ceremony when it takes place at the 02 in London and the leading men from two of the BBC’s most talked about series will be going head to head on the night. The full list of nominations was released earlier today and it’s been revealed that long running sci fi show Doctor Who and detective drama Sherlock will compete for the title of ‘Best Drama’. The leading men will also engage in a battle, as Matt Smith and Benedict Cumberbatch go head to head in the ‘Best Male’ actor category. Merlin’s Colin Morgan and Ronnie Biggs star Daniel Mays have al...

January 3rd, 2012 by Sarah. No comments Benedict Cumberbatch , who of course plays Sherlock Holmes in the BBC’s Sherlock , has told the Sun’s TV Biz that playing the verbose and super intelligent detective is “hard graft.” As fans of the show will know, Sherlock is given to long-winded but meticulously formed monologues regarding his deductions about the cases he’s working on. Of playing the intense role, Benedict said, “Every deduction is hard. It’s always a painful process. “There are all the details. It’s like a stream of consciousness of incredibly condensed information. “He just goes at 100 miles an hour and it’s a huge speed to rush it out. “It’s just hard, it’s hard graft — there’s no other word for it.” And it seems with regard to learning lines, Benedict reckons his co-star, Martin Freeman – who of course plays Doctor John Watson – has a far easier time of it than he does. He said, “I practise at home, there is a lot of midnight oil burned [and] I’m not saying Martin has an ...