A Woman As Sherlock's Dr. Watson is 'Elementary'

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There have been a lot of different Sherlock Holmes's over the years but Lucy Liu is probably the first woman to play Dr. Watson. In the CBS drama Elementary, Holmes and Watson solve crimes in modern-day New York City. Liu told David Greene that Watson as a woman was a "wonderful concept."
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