Amazon Prime Video Launches Young Sherlock Series

Amazon Prime Video launched its new limited series Young Sherlock on March 4, 2026, offering viewers an origin story of the iconic detective as a brash 19-year-old student at Oxford University. Starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin in the title role, the eight-episode season follows a young Sherlock Holmes navigating his first major investigation after being framed for a professor's murder, a case that spirals into a global conspiracy involving family secrets and unlikely alliances.

The series, created by showrunner Matthew Parkhill and based on Andrew Lane's Young Sherlock Holmes book series, reimagines Arthur Conan Doyle's character in the Victorian era. Sherlock arrives at Oxford under the watchful eye of his elder brother Mycroft, played by Max Irons, following a brush with petty crime. There, he forms a fast friendship with brilliant classmate James Moriarty, portrayed by Dónal Finn, and encounters Princess Gulun Shouan, a visiting Chinese dignitary played by Zine Tseng. What starts as a campus theft and murder quickly escalates, drawing Sherlock into a web of intrigue that tests his undeveloped deductive skills and impulsive nature. The narrative unfolds across Victorian England...