CBS has picked up a new batch of half-baked shows that will either give viewers salmonella or be melty and delicious, including a Sherlock Holmes show called — brace yourselves — Elementary. Another Sherlock Holmes something, you say with an exasperated sigh and an exclamation point[!] Ah, but this Sherlock Holmes show …

Both Sherlock fans and musical theater geeks (hi!) will appreciate this delightful video of Mr. Holmes and the Doctor singing along to Irving Berlin's "I Can Do Anything Better Than You." Annie Oakley would be proud.

A Virginia school district has taken Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel A Study In Scarlet off of reading lists. The reason: it's offensive to Mormons. The book includes the passage,

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• Lindsay Lohan has been released from jail after serving 13 full days.

Jeff Gordinier's piece in Details on "The Remasculated Man" is less obnoxious than it could be, but it still reveals how difficult it is to talk about modern masculinity without falling back on lame testicular cliches.

[Berlin, January 12. Image via Getty]

[Berlin, January 12. Image via Getty]

Robert Downey Jr. says Sherlock Holmes might be a "very butch homosexual." Depressingly and unsurprisingly, both Hollywood and Arthur Conan Doyle's estate are now freaking out. Guess this means I'm not getting permission for my Holmes/Watson slashfic. [Mother Jones]

• Jon Gosselin's NYC apartment was "ransacked" by someone who slashed his bedding, rugs, clothing, and curtains, stole several items, including a Wii, and then left behind a note "speared to Jon's bedroom dresser with a butcher knife." [TMZ]