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CBS TV show 'Elementary' to feature notable Call of Duty, Smash, and Street Fighter pros

CBS TV show Elementary, starring Jonny Lee Miller Lucy Liu
CBS TV show Elementary, starring Jonny Lee Miller Lucy Liu (CBS)

CBS has announced an upcoming esports-focused episode of Elementary, featuring cameos of notable players from various esports.

The show’s official Twitter account revealed five players set to appear in the upcoming episode, including Team EnVyUs’ Call of Duty player Jordan “JKap” Kaplan, Super Smash Bros. Melee players Ryan “The Moon” Coker-Welch and Hendrick “DJ Nintendo” Pilar, Optic Gaming’s CS:GO player Tarik “tarik” Celic, and Street Fighter player and streamer Arturo “TS Sabin” Sanchez.

The episode will also feature Easter eggs related to high profile Melee players Evil Geniuses’ Kevin “PPMD” Nanney, TSM’s William “Leffen” Hjelte, and Boxr’s Julian Zhu, as well as Halo pro Richie Heinz.

Elementary is amodern take on the classic Sherlock Holmes stories created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The esports episode will focus on Sherlock and Watson “investigating a murder in the esports world,” executive producer and writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe told Dot Esports.

“The idea for using real players just sort of popped into my head,” producer and writer Jeffrey Paul King told the site. “I thought it would be a nice nod to the eSports community. I didn’t want the gaming community to hear that we were doing an episode about eSports and think, ‘A CBS cop show about eSports? Lame.’ I wanted to include the community and make them a part of it.”

Elementary’s esports episode is set to air on Sunday, February 19 at 10 pm PT and ET, and 9 pm CT.

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