A Benedict Cumberbatch photo inspired BBC and Netflix's new Dracula TV series

Radio Times

Mark Gatiss, co-creator of Sherlock, says of the inspiration for his and Steven Moffat's new BBC/Netflix Dracula series: “It came about several years ago. We were filming  — we’d just started the third series of Sherlock, where he comes back from the dead, and we had to break off after two days to go to the RTS awards (somebody has to do it) and I had a picture on my phone of Benedict silhouetted against the door of Mrs Hudson’s room. I showed it to Ben Stephenson, who was then the Head of Drama (at the BBC), and I said, ‘Looks like Dracula’. And he said, ‘Do you want to do it?'"