Well I shall be the happiest if I'm proven wrong and there is another series in the next 2-3 years. Otherwise, pessimism is what I have; pessimism protects me

I'm willing to wait for an ice age.

Me, too. Although I did start watching right before one of the shortest hiatus the show has ever had, so we'll see how I cope, lol.

I'm glad to hear that, but what's "s-s"?

Yes, I think so.  There's an expression "for s__s and giggles" meaning "for fun".

No, they just don't have a crystal ball.

Here is a report from Sherlocked UK by someone who talked to Sue:

Sherlocked report #9. Had a lovely time at the cocktail party. Our group got to speak to Sue Vertue and I asked in a sly way about S5 by asking whether it was up to the BBC to commission another series and she said no, the beeb would love to have more series made as, (my words not hers) it’s quite a money spinner for them. It really is down to Mark and Steven getting time to write it first of all. She said that hopefully she’d like to get them together early next year to discuss things like what the plot would be etc. Then they’d have to write a draft plot line and see if primarily Ben and Martin would be up for doing it with that plot. Then she’d have to send Mark and Steven away on holiday together to write as it worked so well for s4. Then they’d have to sort out the logistics of Ben n Martins schedules. Ben has been working pretty much non stop for a year and Martins not far behind in the constant workloads. So in short she herself is hopeful that a S5 will happen but even if she pushed them to write super speed they have Dracula to get through its first season first and then they’d have to work out when B & M could film. She said that they hope that Dracula will film next year for a possible 2019 release (they’ve not started writing it properly at all, just a draft plot.) So Sherlocked wouldn’t be able to start to film at the earliest until a few months after Dracula has wrapped. So I’m figuring that would mean a very late 2019 or mid 2020 release at its best possible. I’m so sorry I can’t relay any better news than that, but at least we know now that the BBC and Hartswood are both keen to do it. Let’s face it, the Sherlock fandom is used to long hiatuses! !
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So it seems with a bit of luck there will be more. 

They have been telling us this about Benedict and Martin since after S1 aired. 

Thanks for the update!  It's good to know what the process is.  2019 is earlier than I would even have hoped for (if it at all!), so good to know that's actually a possibility.  It does sound like it might be the scheduling that would cause problems, as we suspected. 

Last edited by Liberty (October 29, 2017 12:45 pm)

Hard to say for now. It was cool to read what Sue had to say about the process.of creating a series of Sherlock.