I have no doubt in my mind that we will eventually get more Sherlock. 
Just can't tell you when.
I will be happy whenever it happens.

There's no way they would do it without Benedict or Martin...and they both have to be ready and willing.

Mark and Steven have both said they wouldn't do it without Benedict or Martin.

I'm going to be a lone voice then! I wouldn't be as interested in watching, but if it really was a choice between no Sherlock at all and Sherlock without Benedict/Martin, I'd go for the latter.  The only way I could see it working was with an age difference (having Sherlock by very much younger or older than he is now).   I think it would have a very different feel with different actors.  And I think that some of the difficulty would be in having to act an elderly Benedict's Sherlock, rather than the actor being able to create her own version.   However, we've already had child flashbacks which have kind of worked ... I would be interested to see what an accomplished actor could do with the elderly version.

Of course, my dream was that they would keep doing it until Benedict and Martin were elderly themselves!  But that's possibly even more unlikely than them having a special with different actors!

Oh I agree, Susi.  I don't think there would be much interest in it.  This is just what I personally would want.  Moftiss have taken Sherlock and John down a rather different route.  It feels as if they've only just now led into "classic" territory, but I'd be interested to see where it goes in the end. I don't want to let these particular characters go!

I couldn't find it on YouTube to share, but there's a recent Vanity Fair interview with Ben, concerning The Current War, mostly. In the interview, he's asked if there's a new Sherlock season coming, and he replies: "It's resting".

He actually seems a bit dismissive about the question, as if he doesn't want to go into it too much (understandbly, seeing as he is probably under a payed contract to do PR for TCW), but what he says just confirms what we've been hearing all along, I think. 

Not right now, they don't, no.  But I'm hoping that within 2 or 3 years, they will.
 

Well, as far as I know there are not that many confirmed projects: How to Stop Time will start filming in March. And then maybe "Rio" and "Gypsy Boy". And a theatre project. Should be doable in two years. To me, it seems to be more about the writers than the actors, tbh. 
 

Steven said recently and quite clearly if I remember that the show was not over. 
 

I do think one thing's clear: there's a line drawn between what we've seen so far and what comes next.  The ending of S4 seemed to be the ending of an era.  It's no longer the "Sherlock Begins" story, with the shaping of the character.   The actors are in their 40s and more of a similar age to Rathbone and Bruce - I can't see them being "young" Holmes/Watson in a few years time.  

Along with having done the backstory/prequel, they've also done the major stories - clarified Sherlock's relationship with Irene Adler, killed off Moriarty, etc.  They'd be going into the classic mature Holmes era but with Moriarty already dead, which seems kind of odd. 

Not that it can't be done, of course, and I'd be more than happy to see it!  I'm just wondering if those things take some of the urgency out of "must write S5" for the writers.  They've got the "insane wish fulfilment" out of their systems?  They're not quite as drawn to the next episode now that they've finished their big arc?

Last edited by Liberty (November 25, 2017 6:03 pm)