What change did writer and producer Robert Doherty justify thus – “One reason is to debunk this idea that a man and a woman can't be together on screen especially without needing to be together sexually or in love or whatever, and this is really about the evolution of a friendship and how that happens. Watching that should be as much the story as the mysteries that you see week in and week out about who killed who?”
Making Dr Watson a female (Joan Watson) in the TV series Elementary based on Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes