Sherlock and John face off against 24 other nominees in new TV Detectives category at the National Television Awards 2014

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are both individually nominated in a new long-list category at the National Television Awards 2014. If it wasn’t already difficult enough to choose between the pair, both are in a packed field of twenty four other actors who have played investigative characters that have recently graced British television screens.

Head to the National Television Awards website to begin voting – the detectives category is the fourth category in the vote.

Voting in the National Television Awards 2014 long-list closes at 23:59BST on Friday 11 October 2013, after which the votes will be compiled and then the short-list launched.

The National Television Awards 2014 are set to take place on January 22 2014 at The O2 London.