About the Show 2012 The world’s only consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch, Star Trek Into Darkness, Dr. Strange), teams up with his long-suffering, faithful friend, Dr. John Watson ( The Hobbit, Fargo), to solve a dizzying array of crimes and battle diabolical villains with his signature deductive reasoning and his stunning lack of social grace. Co-created by Steven Moffat ( Doctor Who, Coupling) and Mark Gatiss ( Doctor Who, The League of Gentlemen), Sherlock also stars Amanda Abbington ( Mr. Selfridge), Rupert Graves ( A Room with a View), and Andrew Scott ( Spectre).

The world's only consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch, Star Trek Into Darkness, Dr. Strange), teams up with his long-suffering, faithful friend, Dr. John Watson (The Hobbit, Fargo), to solve a dizzying array of crimes and battle diabolical villains with his signature deductive reasoning and his stunning.

Interviewing ultra-secretive Steven Moffat about Sherlock is a tricky endeavor, given that the writer-producer would prefer to say nothing at all about what will happen in the show’s hugely anticipated fourth season. But during our wide-ranging recent interview, the Sherlock co-creator gave us a few hints about what to expect when the BBC/PBS Masterpiece fan-favorite series returns. Plus, he addressed the long wait between seasons, took a little dig at that other Holmes show—CBS drama Elementary—and even gave a suprirsingly passionate defense of Fifty Shades of Grey.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So, what do you feel comfortable telling us about season 4—or “series” 4, as it’s called in the U.K.? STEVEN MOFFAT: There are answers coming to questions which nobody has asked. There’s one thing that no one has really brought up Can you say what the question is? We’ve actually set up something, I think—[co-creator Mark Gatiss] and me, we’re very exultant about a little thing we’ve set up that no one is talking about.

The episodes get so heavily analyzed it’s surprising that fans have overlooked something. It’s not that we’re being clever. The Cucumber Book Pdf Epub Books. We never know.

Sometimes people go mad for one thing we think is quiet trivial and completely ignore something we think is standing right in front of you. What distinguishes season 4 from previous years? We haven’t started writing it yet, so it’s early. The first series was all about the beginning of their friendship.

Second about the formative stages, the love and fear and loss and all that. The third was good days, me and my pal and my pal’s wife. Those are golden days. The missing element in a lot of Sherlock Holmes adaptations is allowing it to be funny. There’s a lot of humor in Sherlock Holmes, and it’s ignored in a lot of adaptations. [Season 4] is going to be I suppose you’d say consequences.