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.

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.