Bingowings said:

Watched the pilot for Elementary out of curiosity.

It's a rather implausible, slightly silly police procedural with a few clearly forced elements of House MD about it.

Not the worst thing I've seen on the box but it doesn't need or deserve the references to Sherlock Holmes in it.

Ah, but it does, doesn't it? Gotta take advantage of the popularity of BBC's Sherlock.

Like you said, it's basically another police procedural in a long line of others on the CBS network, masquerading as a Sherlock Holmes show.

But I may yet watch because I love me some Lucy Liu.