BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Official BBC releases - Series 4 - The Game is On!

**Posted by ewige** January 3, 2017 11:44 am

Oh, look! Sherlock's "dark horse" is the one still standing for him. I tell you: he's got something up his sleeve.

**Posted by besleybean** January 3, 2017 11:44 am

I certainly hope so.

**Posted by Vhanja** January 3, 2017 1:00 pm

Anyone have any idea what this could be?

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** January 3, 2017 1:06 pm

No, but it's making my head spin!

**Posted by Liberty** January 3, 2017 1:06 pm

No, but I'm intrigued! My guess is some sort of game that they're going to give us, related to the next episode.

It could even be a mind game (Derren Brown type thing), as I think Culverton is going to be all about mind games. Although maybe not, as it's BBC Three, rather than One.

**Posted by Pops** January 4, 2017 3:31 pm

Official BBC release :

The Final Problem will be 1h40 long !
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2017/03/sherlock

**Posted by Liberty** January 4, 2017 3:40 pm

That's odd. It's showing in the TV guides as finishing at 10.30. I wonder if they're doing something different with it .... and, I'll tell you what. My guess about the "making TV history" was that they were going to spill over into real life/use media to do something (like War of the Worlds). 10.30 is when they would be showing the news, so I wonder if the episode will appear to finish, and then we'll get a "fake" news for ten minutes. (Another note for my post-it of predictions!)

(Edit: the TV guide is showing it as 10.40 too, so my mistake. But the above still stands. I can imagine them doing something like that).

Last edited by Liberty (January 4, 2017 3:47 pm)

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** January 4, 2017 3:43 pm

That would be really interesting if they did that, and awesome!

Oh, and apparently re the BBC3 thing... apparently it wasn't anything to do with Sherlock... a joke I think they said, that backfired...

**Posted by Pops** January 4, 2017 4:46 pm

Corrected by the BBC : TFP will be 90 min long after all...

**Posted by besleybean** January 4, 2017 5:11 pm

Well make your mind up. Ha!
No, I think we get the extra bits in the cinema!

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** January 4, 2017 6:01 pm

Yep... you will.
(why I'm peeved about the whole cinema thing when so many won't even have the chance)

**Posted by besleybean** January 4, 2017 6:04 pm

Mark really stressed about as many people as possible going to the cinema...as though somehow that might guarantee us future episodes!

**Posted by Schmiezi** January 4, 2017 6:12 pm

besleybean wrote:
Mark really stressed about as many people as possible going to the cinema...as though somehow that might guarantee us future episodes!

Give me a cinema that shows the episode and I'll be there. :-/

**Posted by besleybean** January 4, 2017 6:14 pm

Well, exactly...but maybe he was referring to BBC License holders, I don't know!

**Posted by Pops** January 4, 2017 6:34 pm

I would go to the cinema but I am not in the right country !

**Posted by Schmiezi** January 4, 2017 6:45 pm

Pops wrote:
I would go to the cinema but I am not in the right country !

That's what I meant too. :-)

**Posted by besleybean** January 4, 2017 6:48 pm

Shame.

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** January 4, 2017 6:53 pm

Same for me... Last year the Danish Sherlockians fought hard, bombarding the cinema with requests... and the cinema begged and begged BBC to finally be allowed to buy the rights to show TAB...

**Posted by besleybean** January 4, 2017 6:55 pm

Hmm...so it is all down to the BBC.

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** January 4, 2017 7:05 pm

According to the email an exhausted cinema guy sent me. lol. I think they were drowning in emails. He could just as well have written "OMG stop emailing. we have been allowed now... stooop"