The BBC just released this new image for this year’s Sherlock Christmas special! As we’ve discussed before, the Christmas special will feature an old-school Sherlock Holmes story, meaning that the story is set in the late 19th century, just as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote it. Sherlock-loonies have been trying to figure out how the writers would explain this time change. I still have no idea. And Steven Moffat still isn’t explaining it.
Praise Mrs. Hudson, there’s a new image from Sherlock! Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman return in a new Sherlock special before season four begins in proper and they look…decidedly different. The 90-minute special, which will likely be seen Christmas 2015, is set in Victorian times.
“It’s like we checked the books and discovered we’d set it in the wrong time period by mistake and it’s like we’re correcting it for 90 minutes,” Steven Moffat, executive producer and co-creator, told BBC News. “We’re really proud of it, we think it’s a real cracker. But that’ll be it until series four.”
The fourth season is set to debut in…2017. So far! But good things come to those who wait, right? RIGHT?! It’s been a while since we last got to see Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes and Freeman’s Dr. John Watson in action. The last episode aired in February 2014 here in the United States. Freeman, Cumberbatch and Moffat took home Emmys for the episode, “His Last Vow.”
And hold onto your deerstalker caps: Moffat said he hasn’t begun writing season four yet.
Crap, I forgot that Season 4 won’t air until 2017. For some reason I thought it would be next year. Not only haven’t they started filming Season 4, they haven’t even written it yet. This is awful. That means…there will three years (likely more) between seasons. I love Sherlock and I want Freeman and Cumberbatch to work on other projects too, but they need to make a bigger commitment to the show. As do Moffat and Gatiss. This is ridiculous.
Photos courtesy of the BBC, WENN.
Big Whoop.
I’m over these long gaps, yes they are 90 minutes long so technically mini movies but fact is, it’s a tv show, either give it up or make a commitment to as to the gap between them, or change the structure of the show. It feels like pure ego , like “oh they love the show so they’ll wait. Release a pic and they’ll all lose their nut”.
At this rate (I think Moffit/Gatiss will have it written by mid 2016 at best and then you’ve got to factor in actors schedules so add a few more months onto that, pushing it into 2017 which means early 2018, possibly and I’m sorry but that’s just stupid.
(honestly I cant see a 4th series being made at this stage)
i thought they were filming S4 in 2016 and airing it in 2017. This special is airing this year tho.
it doesn’t bother me tbh but i dont view it as a show but a reoccuring miniseries. i’m sure there’s ego involved because its moffat 🙂
yet i dont think that’s the real issue. it’s how well a lot of the people involved are doing now. ppl always blame ben and martin but mark, moffat, loo, scott rn and graves are all pretty busy, and i don’t even know about the other behind the camera creatives. the scheduling has to be a nightmare
If he hasn’t even started writing it yet then I doubt they will be filming before at least end of 2016.
I agree I think there are a huge amount of factors, not just Benedict and Martin, involved and the longer they take writing it, the actors and crew will continue to take other jobs thus pushing it out further. At this stage they can’t say when it will be written so they can’t give an approx timeline when the cast and crew will be needed.
Moffat is at SDCC so he may reveal something.
Those are some brand-spankin’ new boots that have not one crease and no scuffs nor dirt on the soles. Were they delivered to him as he sat in the chair and they never even crossed a floor?
Agent Kiddo, Fashion CSI reporting from the field.
He walked over on a cloud of unicorn farts. His feet never touched the floor.
Do unicorn farts smell like Jennifer Anniston’s new fragrance Near Dusk? Or more like sweaty Justin Theroux?
A little from column A and a little from column B..
I think unicorn farts would smell like Mariah Carey’s underwear drawer.
Those are his actual bare feet. Not human, lizard otter hybrid. Would you like some absinthe?
Love it. Every time I think I’m out they pull me back in. Look if rather this gap than never resolving that cliffhanger. Neither Freeman or especially Cumberbatch need this show anymore. People wait years between movie sequels, I just don’t see it as that big a deal.
Gatiss doesn’t need it either. He’s got to force Cersei into bankruptcy on Game of Thrones
Is the big gap until season four to build excitement or to try to air out the stench from season three?
(runs away in fear)
Lol @ zapp branigan. I needed that laugh this morning. 🙂
Adding my LOL to Just here’s . . . it was ghastly was it not?!
Is it just me or does Martin Freeman look HOT in that moustache?
Definitely not just you. He looks way hot. I also thought he was smokin’ with the full beard when he did Richard III.
Cumberbatch looks hot. I’m enjoying Sherlock with tamed hair.
He is seriously attractive. I don’t know what it is, but he just is. Even though he’s teeny, he’s hot.
Are your standards so low that an image of Benedict sitting in a chair is considered hot?
Funnily enough there is a Tumblr dedicated to this very phenomenon. So some people clearly do.
ha, didn’t even know that
everyone’s got their thing
Ha! My friend runs that tumblr. The one about Benedict sitting in chairs. She’s hilarious and is not taking it at all seriously.
Are you so miserable that you need to insult a stranger on the internet for saying something positive about someone else? Oh, child.
There are no “standards”; attractiveness is subjective. Maybe you never heard “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” but it’s a truism. There’s no empirical scale. You don’t think he’s hot? Perfectly fine. You don’t need to tell someone else that they have “low standards” because they do think he’s hot. Jesus, let people live.
Curly mop of hair is Sherlock’s main attraction. Without that – not interested, thank you.
This! All that was good about Sherlock’s looks is gone. I hope they bring his curls back for the next season. The story and Sherlock’s S1 wit have gone downhill so I have no good reason to watch the show if I can’t even rest my eyes on him.
Hot? Not. Long time Baker Street Irregular here and backtracking from the smiling, weeping, increasingly emotional, texting Sherlock of the very disappointing Season 3 back to the original Holmes will be rather jarring. Then they go to Season 4 and the smiling, weeping, increasingly emotional, texting Sherlock returns?! And he looks like his hairline is receding. By 2017 only the hardcore cumber fans/nans will care.
My guess is that they are going back that way in general, and the special is tied into the current series to ease that in. They filmed scenes in the modern day as well.
His hairline has always been that high (it’s easy to see in Amazing Grace), so no, not receding. He’s got a big forehead and the slicked back hair makes it more apparent.
They both look good in that photo. Fingers crossed for an excellent holiday special.
I was looking forward to the next series…until I realized I’m waiting more than 2 years for 3 episodes over 3 weeks. All these occasional teaser promos do is annoy the hell out of me. It’s a bit of a F-U that says you will wait and you will like it, bitch. Meh, I won’t bother watching. Series three was a bit crap, so if that’s the indicator of how series four will be, no thanks.
Go on thinking that the making people wait so long is awesome, arrogant douchbags. I’ve got other shit to watch while not watching your show that you so arrogantly think I’ll wait for and eagarly watch when it is finally released. Yeah, I’m bitter.
Seems like an awful lot of trouble to avoid explaining why SH no longer has that mop of curls.
I will always and forever be in love with Sherlock Holmes. The gaps are way too long, yes. But I’d be a liar if I said I didn’t care about the series anymore. I wlll be glued to the TV, no doubt about it. Martin Freeman is an absolute genius in everything, and BC is a master technician/actor. He fits Sherlock so well. Yes, he has gotten on my nerves off-screen, but he does his job on it. Give me some Sherlock, baby!
I wouldn’t mind waiting that long between “seasons” if a season could last more than three episodes! 🙂
tbh, I’m more eager for the next season of Orange is the New Black. I tried to space the episodes out more this time so the season wouldn’t be over so quickly, but I just can’t be trusted with a season of OITNB at a time.
Way too long between seasons and Cumberbatch’s shotgun wedding/pregnancy has caused me to be over him. You know what is a better show now for me? Ripper Street. Just watched season 1 and about to start season 2. Better than Sherlock IMO.
Penny Dreadful is heaps better than Sherlock. And you don’t have to wait a lifetime for the next season. Also, I dislike the laziness of going Victorian in order to avoid picking up where they left off. Moffat could maybe be replaced by someone who’s quicker at writing things? John Logan wrote all the episodes of the first season of PD and still managed to write James Bond too. And may I suggest Harry Treadaway in case BC decides he’s too famous for the Sherlock role??
Am I the only one who thinks that the reason for the Victorian special is that Benedict didn’t want the mop of curls during award season?
I can’t really imagine that the production team would go to that much trouble and expense with set design, costuming, etcetera just to suit Benedict’s hair preferences. Moftiss have said they always wanted to do this. There’s no reason why Sherlock couldn’t have the curly Sherlock hair in the Victorian era; in fact, I think it would have made him look MORE Victorian. Throw some sideburns on there, perfect. His hair just happened to be short during the available shoot time so that’s what they went with.
Actually BC always said he hates Sherlock’s hair, so it may be that he got what he wanted.
OMG I sooo would, not once, not twice, but thrice.
Can I just… *fizzgigs* over the wait (weight) of these … Bring on the bloody Sherlock!!!!! *off with his bloody big head*