Maybe I'm naive, but I think that's probably it - there's no decision to stop, so they haven't announced it.  But at the same time, no plans for the next series.  It's sad to admit, but as time goes on, I feel it's less likely that there will be a S5, and the team will just keep moving on with other things and not getting round to it.  As S4 wasn't so well received, it might even be the best decision ... I just don't know, maybe it has just gone out of fashion for the moment.  I still love the idea of them doing a sequel many years from now, so I'm still going to hold out hope!

Indeed!
But I never really bought the no-time argument. The show was not a stopgap, something you do when there is nothing else available. We know that Peter Jackson even postponed Hobbit filming so Martin could do Sherlock. 

Yes. They all are interested in multiple things, which is normal and healthy (not to mention good for their careers, if we have to take that angle).

You, too, Yitzock. x

My OneDrive account showed me a picture I uploaded on this day seven years ago. It was a drawing I forgot I had made, of John's hand reaching for Sherlock's in that handcuff scene. I think I was drawn to it as a way to practice drawing hands, which I've always found challenging. I had forgotten I'd drawn it, but one thing that I noticed when seeing it again today, was that the chain doesn't look very strong, I was clearly more focused on drawing the hands!

I can see how that mixup could happen!  Maybe with Jude Law being a British actor of a similar age as well, it's kind of plausible that he might have been in it.  I had forgotten that he was in the films. I think I might have watched one of them, but clearly it didn't have the same effect on me as BBC Sherlock because I can't even remember!