Bond & Holmes

[julian]

Random question I know - does anyone know if they're really only big in the UK - can't find much info?

 

[namealot]

If your talking about the band then no there not big anywhere other than Colchester maybe one day ?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=B..."&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&sa=N&start=0

 

[Edwin]

Ah, that makes a lot more sense now that I've seen the context! I was thinking "What rock is he living under..."

 

[julian]

No! I mean James Bond & Sherlock Holmes - I get the impression Bond is not big in the States etc - more of a UK thing?

 

[Edwin]

Skyfall took over US$300 million at the US box office, so James Bond is definitely popular over there. You don't get to those sorts of numbers otherwise. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=bond23.htm

However, it also smashed UK box office records so it might be more accurate to say "popular in the US, very very popular in the UK"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films_in_the_United_Kingdom

I think the same could be said about Sherlock Holmes. He's big in both the UK and the US (for example, there's a TV show called "Elementary" that's running in the US and quite popular, based on Sherlock Holmes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes ) but ludicrously popular in the UK.

So it's a question of degree. They're not obscure in one place and known in the other. They're well known in both, but tear the doors off famous in the UK.