David Gandy and Benedict Cumberbatch were at the same London event for Omega last night. And I decided to lead with Benedict – don’t make me regret that choice, Cumberbitches. REPRESENT. Shout your love. I have to say, it amuses me to no end how many girls love The Cumberbatch. The overwhelming majority of commenter-email I get is from fellow Fassbender-loonies, but I’m starting to get some mail about Cumberbatch too, amazingly enough. A Cumberbitch emailed me yesterday to “hyperventilate” (her words) about season 2 of Sherlock airing on the BBC in January, although it won’t come to PBS until May of next year. Still – new Cumberbatch, which is always welcome. There’s even a new Cumberinterview, all about how much he identifies with Sherlock Holmes:

Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed playing the famous detective Sherlock Holmes has changed how he sees the world. The award-winning detective drama Sherlock is returning to the BBC for a second series in the new year with Benedict playing the title character again. He stars alongside Martin Freeman, who plays Dr Watson, in three 90-minute films adapted from the Arthur Conan Doyle classic stories.

Speaking at a screening of episode one, A Scandal in Belgravia, at the BFI Southbank in London, Benedict said: “Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that. We don’t observe as he (Holmes) keeps on saying, we see things, and what is so thrilling about him is it all suddenly becomes a potential adventure.”

“I think if you look at the example of Holmes, or at least what I have learnt from playing him, is that you see extraordinary depth in the smallest detail. It’s joining the dots, that’s the fun thing, building a narrative. So I sit on trains and I try to see, ‘Is that mud on the bottom of a boot?’, ‘I wonder where he has been’. ‘That collar looks a little bit frayed’, ‘I wonder whether he is has been travelling for a while or has he forgotten his washing?’ You do try to piece together personal stories from bits of information.”

The other two episodes to make up the series will be The Hounds of Baskerville and The Reichenbach Fall. Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the first series was huge hit with audiences and won a series of accolades including two Baftas for best drama series and best supporting actor. The second series of Sherlock is due to be shown on BBC One in early 2012.

[From The Press Association]

Benedict is also in two big awards contenders this awards season – he has supporting parts in both War Horse and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. So for all of us Americans who don’t get out Sherlock Cumberfix until May, we can content ourselves with his films. Also: do you think Benedict will get invited to some awards shows?!?! Maybe the SAG awards. *getting so excited I might pee a little*

Note about the photos: There was only one photo of Benedict from the Omega event, so I’m including some other pics of Benedict from his past few public appearances. The brunette chick is his girlfriend. She’s pretty, I guess. She looks elegant and moneyed, which… you know Benedict comes from money, right? And he seems to like classy girls too. I’m also including some photos of David Gandy at the Omega event, just because it makes me light-headed to think of the two of them close to each other. Tall, sexy, English bastards.

Photos courtesy of WENN.