Gilmore Girlscreator Amy Sherman-Palladinos inspiration for the Netflix reboot came from a seemingly unlikely source:Sherlock.

So she looked to the BBC production for inspiration.

Im massively intoSherlockand what I love aboutSherlockis the format is longer than an hour.

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Credit: PBS; Lance Staedler/The WB

Theyre their own little mini-movies.

Sherman-Palladino even mentionedSherlockover lunch with Lauren Graham, when explaining her idea for the revival.

We were having lunch, Graham recalls.

We wanted to do something that broadened it in a sense, she says.

We werent interested in doing something that was just for the cool kids.