Citations:Cumbermania

Noun: "(informal) enthusiasm for actor Benedict Cumberbatch"

 * 2012, "Sherlock flyer campaign mystifies US students", Radio Times, 2 March 2012:
 * "Watson's Warriors" plaster college with posters as Cumbermania goes global...
 * 2012, Paul Simper, "'People thought I was dead'", The Sun, 3 October 2012:
 * While he's grateful for his fans' support since the phenomenal success of Sherlock, Benedict is also very forthright about some of the more intrusive aspects of Cumbermania.
 * 2013, Jack Seale, "Cabin Pressure writer John Finnemore on the joy of radio, crafting comedy - and Benedict Cumberbatch", Radio Times, 9 January 2013:
 * None more so than that of Cumberbatch – since Cabin Pressure was last on Radio 4, series two of Sherlock has put Cumbermania at an even higher pitch.
 * 2013, Emma Daly, "Sherlock: Why we love Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, by the fans", Radio Times, 22 August 2013:
 * Sherlock and Cumbermania may cause women to go mad, but what do the guys think of it all?
 * 2014, Hillary Busis, "10 things we learned from Benedict Cumberbatch's 'T Magazine' interview", Entertainment Weekly, 7 March 2014:
 * The Cumbermeister’s latest interview isn’t exactly his most revealing ever, but it does include plenty of tasty tidbits about how his first major acting role, how the “accidental superstar” reacts to Cumbermania, and which animated character he thinks he bears a resemblance to. (Hint: It ain’t Prince Charming.)
 * 2014, Liese Spencer, "Cue the applause", The Guardian, 20 March 2014:
 * One can only imagine how his dark prince will be received by his die-hard fans, the proudly self-styled Cumberbitches: screaming, fainting, general Cumbermania?
 * 2014, Alison Gillmor, "Sexiest Man Alive is no Cumberbatch", Winnipeg Free Press, 29 November 2014:
 * Even his recent engagement, which was announced with heartbreaking headlines all over the web ("Benedict Cumberbatch is Getting Married -- and Not to You!"), hasn't dented Cumbermania.
 * 2015, Hannah Furness, "Sherlock vs Shakespeare in Cumberbatch's 18 hour Hamlet queue", The Telegraph, 5 August 2015:
 * One said she would be happy for Cumberbatch to drop out of the show “right now” if it meant tickets were freed up for those who truly wanted to see Hamlet on its own merits, while others put the opportunity to see Shakespeare on British soil far above Cumbermania.
 * 2015, Wendy Bradley, "Something is rotten in this Hamlet production – and it’s not Benedict Cumberbatch", The Guardian, 11 August 2015:
 * Equally, I realise that Cumbermania might be hard to manage but fandom is hardly a new phenomenon.
 * 2015, "Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet Screened Live at The Playhouse", Derry Journal, 17 August 2015:
 * The so called ‘Cumbermania’ around the star’s highly discussed role meant the two-week run at the Barbican Theatre sold out within minutes almost a year before the curtain rose.
 * 2015, John Nathan, "To be or not to be a critic...", The Jewish Chronicle, 3 September 2015:
 * During the show's unusually long three weeks of preview performances - a period used by directors and actors to hone their production into shape before the critics turn up - the papers frothed with Cumbermania, about the fans that queued at night; the performance that had to be restarted because fans knocked their idol off his stride by filming him with smartphones; Cumberbatch's desperate stage door plea to put the phones away.