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"Elementary exec Rob Doherty has again dismissed the idea of Holmes and Watson getting together on the show. Lucy Liu plays Joan Watson to Jonny Lee Miller&amp;#039;s Sherlock on the new CBS drama, with some speculating that the male-female pairing could lead to on-screen romance.   &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t look at it so much through a romantic prism,&amp;quot; Doherty told TV Guide. &amp;quot;What I see is this really interesting and quirky friendship that&amp;#039;s forming. As far as how do we keep it from getting [to a romantic point], my very simple plan is to not write that. It&amp;#039;s just not what we&amp;#039;re looking to do.&amp;quot; The showrunner insisted that making Watson a woman on Elementary was &amp;quot;never about creating a &amp;#039;will they or won&amp;#039;t they&amp;#039; scenario&amp;quot;. He explained: &amp;quot;Just as a joke to myself, it made me think, &amp;#039;What would make Sherlock Holmes crazier than a female Watson?&amp;#039; - it started as a joke, but I kept coming back to it and asking myself, &amp;#039;Well, what would it really change? Why would it be different? What&amp;#039;s the big deal?&amp;#039; &amp;quot;Should we be so lucky as to go into season 6, 7, 8 or 9, maybe [a romance between the pair] starts to look attractive, but it&amp;#039;s not what the show was built to do.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Cumberbatch denies Sherlock, Elementary feud: &amp;#039;There&amp;#039;s no fight&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Sherlock vs. Elementary: How the US drama compares to the UK hit Doherty instead hinted that Sherlock could become personally involved with a version of Irene Adler, the enigmatic woman who appeared in Arthur Conan Doyle&amp;#039;s story A Scandal in Bohemia. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s absolutely something we&amp;#039;ve talked about,&amp;quot; he confirmed. &amp;quot;Irene is definitely a name that has come up.&amp;quot; Elementary premieres tonight in the US and will air on Sky Living in the UK from next month. Watch a promo for Elementary below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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