After almost two years since its previous season, BBC’s Sherlock is returning for a fourth season in 2017. However, the show’s creator Stephen Moffat has hinted that this may be the show’s final series.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Moffat noted that he would be “moderately surprised” if this were the case, but that it “absolutely could be.” He went on to explain that this is because of the rising fame of the show’s lead two actors; Benedict Cumberbatch (who will soon be starring as the titular character in Marvel’s Doctor Strange) and Martin Freeman (who was the lead actor in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy) since the show’s first season in 2010. Moffat stated that the two, who play Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson respectively are returning “because they want to.”
The Emmy-nominated drama’s fourth season is currently in production with a 2017 release date. Moffat has been very quiet when revealing the plot but has hinted that this season would focus on the lesser known stories from Arthur Conan Doyle’s bibliography.
By Máirín Byrne
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