Robert Carlyle will play Sherlock Holmes in “Watson” Season 2 at CBS, Variety has learned.
Carlyle will play the legendary detective in a recurring guest star role opposite Morris Chestnut, who plays the titular Dr. John Watson. Other cast members for Season 2 include Eve Harlow, Peter Mark Kendall, Ritchie Coster, Inga Schlingmann, and Rochelle Aytes. Randall Park previously appeared in the series as Holmes and Watson’s arch-nemesis, Professor James Moriarty.
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Carlyle is now the second actor to portray Holmes on CBS in recent years, after Johnny Lee Miller played the character for seven seasons on the procedural “Elementary.”
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