"What do an eccentric British detective, a cut-throat Washington pol and a bunch of nerds at Caltech have in common?"

"They are characters in some of the most popular foreign TV shows in China."

"Over the past five years, The Big Bang Theory alone has been streamed more than 1.3 billion times. To appreciate how much some young Chinese love the BBC series, Sherlock, step inside 221B Baker Street. That's Holmes' fictitious address in London as well as the name of a café that opened last year in Shanghai's former French Concession."