A new photoshoot and interview with Benedict Cumberbatch from Jaguar Magazine has been added to the site. Benedict voices Jaguar's current ad campaign (You can see links to the adverts on our Biography page).

In addition some new UK and foreign press clippings featuring Benedict Cumberbatch have been added to the site.

Finally, some new Sherlock series 2 promotional pictures and press clippings have been added to our Sherlock micro site.

Benedict Cumberbatch has been voted the sexiest man in the world by readers of The Sun. In the poll Benedict received 7115 votes - more than twice the number of his nearest rival David Beckham.

Benedict was also featured this week in Tatler's list of 100 people who matter.

Sherlock started airing it's second series in the US on Sunday on Masterpiece PBS. The show debuted to hugely impressive overnight ratings which were double PBS's usual audience on a highly competitive night. Sherlock has gone down a storm with the US critics and you can read the absolutely glowing reviews here. Various items of Sherlock press coverage have also been added to the site. 

Benedict has been busy meeting with the press in the US over the past few weeks and a number of interviews have been added to the interviews page including fantastic indepth interviews with the LA Times and the Metro. Photos from the LA Times shoot have been added to the site. 

And in non Sherlock news the Star Trek sequel in which Benedict is due to play the villain (unconfirmed reports suggest he is playing Khan) finished shooting on 8 May 2012. During the last block of filming Simon Pegg (Scotty) and Zachary Quinto (Spock) posted on twitter pictures of themselves (along with Benedict and Chris Pine (Kirk)) enjoying a road trip to San Francisco. The photos have been added to the gallery. Star Trek is due to be released in May 2013.

Finally a couple of new stills for Parades End (in which Benedict is due to appear opposite Rebecca Hall) have been added to the gallery. Parades End is due to air on BBC 2 later this year.

Benedict Cumberbatch (along with Sherlock creator Steven Moffat and producer Sue Vertue) has been making a number of appearances in New York this week to promote Sherlock series 2 which is due to start screening on Masterpiece PBS on Sunday 6th May 2012.

On 2 May Benedict, Sue and Steven appeared at a packed out PBS event in New York where lucky competition winners watched an excerpt of Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia before enjoying a Q&A with the panel. 10,000 people had applied for the 200 tickets to the event and the queue for returns started at 7:00 a.m! Enthusiastic Sherlock fans from all over the US and indeed the world had come to the PBS event for the chance to meet Benedict. The Q&A was broadcast via livestream to the thousands worldwide who couldn't attend. 

And what a delightful Q&A it was. Benedict divulged his favourite scene in Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia (the deduction sequence between Sherlock & Irene after he's been drugged), how he definitely wouldn't like to have tea with Cabin Pressure's Captain Martin Crieff ("He'd spill it on himself and then I'd have to clear that up for him, then he would walk into a door and I'd have to phone an ambulance and then he'd end up hijacking the ambulance thinking it's a taxi home - he's a disaster"), how if he had a blank cheque he would make an adaptation of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, how he's hoping to bring Frankenstein to Broadway and he revealed (hilariously) that the infamous Anne Summers riding crop which was sent to him as fanmail after Sherlock series 1 aired and which he has mentioned before in interviews (most notably the Alan Carr interview) was actually sent to him by his friends!

PBS confirmed that they will be posting a recording of the Q&A for those who missed it but in the meantime you can see a number of screencaps from the event here.

Earlier that day Benedict appeared on VH1 Morning Buzz. His interview has been kindly uploaded to youtube and you can see it here. We've also added some photos from his appearance to the galleries. 

MTV interviewed Benedict about Sherlock (and it's fandom!) and that interview has been added to the interviews page.

The previous evening Benedict (and his parents) watched End of the Rainbow (starring the majestic Tracie Bennett) on Broadway and photos of them posing backstage have been added to the galleries. 

A gallery of Benedict appearing at various outlets to promote Sherlock series 2 has also been added to the galleries.

Finally Benedict will be appearing on Morning Edition on NPR on Friday morning so do look out for that.

Congratulations to Benedict Cumberbatch who has been nominated for best actor at the BAFTA Television Awards 2012 for his role as Sherlock Holmes in the huge BBC hit Sherlock!

This is Benedict's second nomination for the role and his fourth BAFTA nomination having previously been nominated for Hawking and Small Island. Benedict will go up against Dominic West (Appropriate Adult), John Simm (Exile) and Joseph Gilgun (This is England 88).

Martin Freeman and Andrew Scott also received nominations in the best supporting actor category for their fine portrayals of John Watson and Jim Moriarty in the show.

In a surprising omission Sherlock itself wasn't nominated for best mini series but it is up for the Youtube Audience Award. So please Vote Sherlock!

The winners are announced at a ceremony at the Southbank Centre on Sunday 27th May 2012. 

To celebrate the upcoming screening of Sherlock series 2 on US television (beginning May 6th) the lovely people at PBS are running a couple of special Sherlock events that US fans can take part in.

First up for fans in Southern California PBS SoCal and the Art Theatre of Long Beach are holding a special 35 minute sneak peak of Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia on 28 April 2012 at 12:00 p.m. You can sign up for tickets here. Please note that signing up for a ticket doesn't guarantee you a seat and that it is highly recommended that you arrive early (check in will begin at 11:30 a.m.) If you are a PBS SoCal member you can obtain VIP passes for the event.

Then on May 2nd PBS is holding a very special Sherlock event in New York - an excerpt screening of Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia followed by a Q&A and autograph reception with Benedict Cumberbatch, producer Sue Vertue and co-creator and writer of Scandal Steven Moffat. 

There are 200 tickets in total available to the event and winners will be chosen by random draw. To be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets send an e-mail to sherlock@pbs.org (25 pairs of tickets available) and ibelieveinsherlock@pbs.org (75 pairs of tickets available) including your name and the name of the guest you hope to take with you. 

Please note that whilst you can enter both competitions you can only win 1 pair of tickets. Also it is one entry per competition address per household - multiple entries to the competition addresses will be disregarded.Entries must be in by 24 April.

PBS have lots of amazing things lined up for their scheduling of Sherlock including live twitter chats during the episodes and live chats the day after so do keep an eye on their site for details.

In other news Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia has been nominated for 3 BAFTA Television Craft Awards. Steven Moffat has been nominated in the writing category, Charlie Phillips has been nominated in the editing: fiction category and the episode has been nominated for best sound. The awards are announced on Sunday 13th May. The nominations for the main tv awards are announced on 24 April 2012.

Sherlock has also been nominated for the BAFTA Youtube audience award - the award it infamously lost to The Only Way is Essex last year. Sherlock is nominated alongside Fresh Meat, The Great British Bake Off, Frozen Planet and Educating Essex. Fans can vote for the award (poll not yet up at the time of writing). The poll closes on 24 May 2012.

Benedict Cumberbatch finished in 7th place in the Time 100 poll with a highly impressive 91.8 thousand votes beating world leaders, music mega stars and Hollywood A Listers. The poll was won by the hacker group Anonymous. Benedict's ranking shows the strength of his wonderful and passionate fanbase. Times list of the 100 most influential people of 2012 will be chosen by its editors and revealed on April 17th.

Meanwhile in Star Trek news producer and co-writer Alex Kurtzman has been talking to MTV about Benedict and his work in the, as yet untitled, Star Trek sequel. Kurtzman was full of praise for Benedict calling him "magnetic", "incredible" and a "joy to watch". Benedict's role in the sequel has yet to be revealed but he is apparently playing the villain (some leaked filming photos showing him in action can be seen here) The film will be released next year.

The next issue of the Radio Times (due for sale on Tuesday 10th April) will be doing a feature on small screen stars featuring at this year's Olivier Awards. Benedict will be featured (he is nominated for best actor (alongside Jonny Lee Miller) for his work in Frankenstein) so do look out for that.

War Horse is now on release to buy on dvd/blu ray in the US. The Blu Ray contains features such as a one hour making of the film, You can read our review of the film here.

In site news our review of the screening of Hedda Gabler at the V&A has been added to the site. Benedict played George Tesman in the play and was nominated for an Olivier Award for his role.

A handful of new Sherlock series 2 promo images have also been added to the gallery. 

We've had a bit of a mini site update with additional material added to the Press Clippings gallery (including Benedict's recent feature in Now magazine and interview with the Times about his appearance in the BBC 2 documentary The Dreams of William Golding) and the foreign press gallery.

Additional photos have also been added to the War Horse photoshoots gallery and the Sherlock site has been updated with some new promo pictures for series 2 (due to begin airing on PBS in the USA on May 6th). 

Benedict's interview with Jaguar (Benedict voices their current ad campaign) has been added to the interviews page.

Please note this competition is now closed.

Fortysomething starring Benedict Cumberbatch is due to be released on dvd on 26 March 2012. Unavailable for purchase in the UK for several years the series is being re-released due to popular demand. The 6 part series, which originally aired in 2003, featured a host of British talent including Hugh Laurie (who directed the first 3 episodes), Peter Capaldi and Benedict Cumberbatch as Rory Slippery in one of his very first screen roles. The dvd release is a chance for old fans to at last own the series and for a brand new audience to discover their favourite British talent in a brilliant comedy series. 

The series can now be pre-ordered from Amazon but the incredibly generous people at Strawberry Media are offering no less than 5 copies to our lovely readers.

To be in with a chance of winning a copy simply e-mail your name & the answer to the following simple question to:

contact@benedictcumberbatch.co.uk

Question- Benedict Cumberbatch plays Rory Slippery in Fortysomething. Name the actress who played his mother.

Competition will close on Sunday 25th March. Fortysomething is region free which means that anyone, worldwide may enter. One entry per household only. 

Sunday was Oscars day and whilst very sadly Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and War Horse didn't win any Oscars Benedict was out and about at Elton John's annual viewing party and the Vanity Fair Oscars After Party and photos of Benedict at each event have been added to the gallery. Thanks to Julia for her assistance with sourcing the images.

Benedict was also interviewed by Daybreak and BBC Radio 5 at the parties about War Horse, Tinker Tailor and Star Trek.

MTV also caught up with Benedict and interviewed him about Star Trek and The Hobbit. You'll find all the updates on our interviews and press pages.

Wreckers, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy (Upstairs Downstairs) and Shaun Evans (Endeavour) is due for release on dvd in the UK on 12 March 2012. Directed by newcomer D.R.Hood Wreckers premiered at the London Film Festival in 2011 and went on to have a critically acclaimed limited release at cinemas in the UK. Wreckers is a fascinating, unsettling, compelling film which delights in confounding your expectations at every turn. 

To celebrate the release of Wreckers on dvd the wonderful people at Artificial Eye have offered us two copies of the dvd to give away. 

To be in with a chance of winning simply send your name and address and the answer to the following simple question to contact@benedictcumberbatch.co.uk :

What is the first name of Benedict Cumberbatch's character in Wreckers?

Competition will close on Sunday 11th March when the winners will be drawn at random. One entry per person and UK residents only (sorry international fans but I'll have some competitions coming up shortly you can take part in).