A veteran of USA Network's lighter, brighter era is looking to bring a Sherlock Holmes procedural back to the network he once called home.

Andy Berman, who spent eight seasons on the USA detective series Psych — rising from staff writer to co-executive producer — is developing Sherlock's Secretary for the network, Deadline reported on 7 August 2026. The series hails from Fox Entertainment Studios and would give USA and its parent company Versant a procedural built around one of literature's most recognisable brands. Reps for both USA Network and Versant declined to comment.

The premise springs from a real piece of London life. Thousands of letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes still arrive at 221B Baker Street, and for years an actual person has been answering them. Sherlock's Secretary follows a quirky London woman whose job is responding to that mail — and who, without quite meaning to, becomes the closest living thing to Holmes himself. She begins investigating the real mysteries that arrive alongside the fan letters.

That real-life secretary is Gug Kyriacou, who spent years fielding the Holmes correspondence while working for Abbey National, a bank whose London campus on Baker Street encompasses the famous 221B address. Kyriacou serves as a consultant on the project.

The story behind the show's origins is its own small tale. Veteran unscripted producer Bruce Nash discovered the real-life history of the Baker Street letters and brought it to Berman. Berman is writing the pilot and will serve as showrunner — the lead writer-producer who runs a series day to day. He and Nash executive produce alongside Michael Van Dyke for Inspired Entertainment. Nash produces through his company, Nash Entertainment.

For USA Network, the project carries the texture of a homecoming. Berman's Psych years placed him squarely in the network's so-called blue-sky era, a period in the 2000s and 2010s when USA built its brand on light, colourful procedurals with a comic edge. His other credits span the broadcast dial: executive-producing and showrunning Sony Pictures Television International's Carter, executive-producing Fox's Rosewood, co-executive-producing CBS's So Help Me Todd, and serving as consulting producer on ABC's High Potential. He co-wrote the film sequel Psych 2: Lassie Come Home and has previously sold pilot scripts to DreamWorks, Disney, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Fremantle, ABC, Fox, and FX.

What makes the project stand out is the brand it sits on. Sherlock Holmes is a character in the public domain, meaning no single rights holder controls who can adapt him — and studios have used that freedom liberally, from the BBC's Sherlock to CBS's Elementary. Sherlock's Secretary takes a different angle: not another Holmes himself, but the person already doing the job in real life, whether the world knows it or not.

Berman is represented by Paradigm, Ted Miller at Triangle Management, and Gregg Gellman at Yorn, Levine, Barnes.