Sherlock

[Commenter 42]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Your mother remains unconvinced.

As do I.

Ma never really understood me.

Top o' the list right now;

Sherlock (when it comes back)
Black Mirror (Oct)
Atlanta (Now)
AHS (Now)
Tyrant (catching up)

[BubblyShell22]

Yeah, I don't get it either, Zar, but I'll just go with it and watch it anyway.

[BubblyShell22]

So, they showed three episode of season one before the season 2 premiere which was why I wasn't online in the afternoon. I have to say I love this show and think it's just awesome with everything that they showed. I will definitely continue watching whenever it's on BBCA. Just wish my local PBS station would show it, but they never have from what I've seen. Such a shame.

[ZariusTwo]

Great to hear they showed the first season and that you had a good time with it Bubbly. Won't take you long to catch up.

[BubblyShell22]

Well, as I said, they only showed three episodes of the first season so I don't think it was the whole thing unless there are only three episodes per season and I don't believe that's the case. Either way, I'm eager to be watching the show and to see what else happens. So glad I have discovered it even if it is a bit late.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by BubblyShell22

Well, as I said, they only showed three episodes of the first season so I don't think it was the whole thing unless there are only three episodes per season and I don't believe that's the case..

No, you saw the entire first season Bubbly. Each series of Sherlock is just three episodes.

[Shark_Blade]

Saw 'The Abominable Bride' recently. Absolutely amazing.

I love the little easter egg details that are easily overlooked by casuals - like the snide dig at how Mrs Hudson were not given any substance or lines in The Strand Magazine back in the day. How I laughed. Moffats and Gratiss are true fans and this show is truly a gift. Couldn't be happier.

[ZariusTwo]

Cumberbatch feels Sherlock has reached a point where it is "complete", indicating further that series four will be the last, at least for the foreseeable future due to the busy schedule of him and Freeman

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/sherloc...fter-series-4/

[BubblyShell22]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

No, you saw the entire first season Bubbly. Each series of Sherlock is just three episodes.

Ah, I see. Well, I kind of wish there were more episodes so it could last longer, but I'll take what I can get. Then again, each episode is two hours long, so it definitely feels as though you're going through two episodes instead of just one.

[Shark_Blade]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Cumberbatch feels Sherlock has reached a point where it is "complete", indicating further that series four will be the last, at least for the foreseeable future due to the busy schedule of him and Freeman

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/sherloc...fter-series-4/

All good things come to an end I suppose. It's been a real pleasure though, this series is amazing.

[BubblyShell22]

Well, Benedict has been successful in movies too so he probably wants to focus on making more movies, and that's fine. Sometimes the end is the best thing if someone feels they have done what they needed to do. But the show could still continue on without him if Moffat wants it to.

[ZariusTwo]

It was confirmed yesterday the new series airs on both BBC ONE and PBS Masterpiece on January 1st.

[BubblyShell22]

Yeah, I'll probably have to wait for this to air on BBCA. I do get two PBS channels on local stations, but I have never seen Sherlock listed there.

[ZariusTwo]

[ZariusTwo]

Sitting down later with assembled press, a cautious Cumberbatch has learnt by now to give little away ("Sherlock's lost his razor," he quips, when someone enquires about his scruff) – but hints at a dark turn for our hero.

"If you were to put him in a psychiatrist's chair… You're faced with someone who's in a lot of trouble," he says, before referring back to the character's drug-induced hallucinations in last year's 'The Abominable Bride'. "If what we've seen before is an unravelling, then it's a drop in the ocean compared to what's to come."

"Without giving anything away, this is about as tough a journey as he goes on," Sherlock writer Steven Moffat tells us. "Sherlock and John both, actually. This is about as difficult as it gets for them. They kind of go to hell and back this time."

So who's bringing the pain? The chief suspect would appear to be Toby Jones, playing "one of [Arthur Conan] Doyle's finest villains", Culverton Smith.

"If it's possible to be even more creepy than Moriarty, he gives him a good run for his money," grins Martin Freeman, sporting a slick new haircut as John Watson. "He's pretty odious!"

"I hope Toby doesn't mind me saying, but he's a little man... and Benedict looms over him," adds Moffat. "But he does weirdly somehow give an impression of a genuine physical threat. There is something he can do, in his compact way, that evokes an extraordinary amount of menace."

Whoever or whatever the cause, we're promised cataclysmic shifts in Sherlock this time round – lasting change – and we're not just talking about John and Mary (Amanda Abbington) having a baby.

"It would be a very different show... and a much easier show in so many ways, if people never developed," admits co-writer Mark Gatiss. "Which of course has been the way with several versions before – Sherlock Holmes barely changes from one series to the next, and Dr Watson spends the whole time being astonished.

"It's obviously much more straightforward and also quite comforting. But with three films every couple of years, you've got to go somewhere."

"It's always better, when you're doing something you're familiar with or think you know, when you just have everything ripped from underneath you," echoes Cumberbatch. "It's just more challenging, more fun and more interesting – selfishly, but also I think for an audience.

"It's important to keep it fresh – to do stuff that we haven't done before." He pauses, then adds firmly: "There is no point coming back just to tick boxes."

Freeman too is excited by the developments to come, though admits, rather candidly, that change can be difficult for fans who've become attached to the way things are.

"The loyalty we have is pretty strong, and so it does give us licence to shape-shift a little bit," he says. "I hope people look forward to what we will do with it. But... when you become successful, people – without being unkind – basically want you to die.

"They wanted me to die and just stay as Tim from The Office, and that's it. But if I do something else like Tim from The Office, I'm a lazy bastard. So you have to negotiate those waters very carefully, and patiently, and understand that people are quite demanding."

With all this talk of sweeping change and devastating darkness, we decide it's time to address the elephant in the room. "A story about to reach its climax," we say to Moffat and Gatiss, repeating their own foreboding series tag back at them. "Care to elaborate?"

"There are a number of threads we've been running through this," Moffat nods. "Some of which people have noticed, very obviously, and, oddly enough, some of which nobody's picked up on at all. But yes, there's quite a lot of stuff by the end of these three episodes that is properly resolved. There is going to be a proper climax, I guarantee you that."

Cumberbatch won't be drawn on rumours that this is the final series of Sherlock ("No comment!" he snaps, before breaking out into a cheeky grin) – but again, promises that we won't be disappointed with what's to come.

"There are a huge number of pay-offs in this series," he says. "I think, in the past, you could get away with watching a few episodes in isolation, but this... they're vine branches in the jungle of Sherlock, you have to keep swinging from one to the next to really understand. And really... the pay-offs are massive if you do."

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/sherloc...atch-spoilers/

Awkward TV incoming, as Martin Freeman has split with Amanda Abbington after fifteen years. Amanda's interview hints there will be marital problems between the characters in this series as well

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...ird-real-life/

[Shark_Blade]

I'm sure they can handle it professionally despite the divorce. Can't wait for this new series!

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

I'm sure they can handle it professionally despite the divorce.

They were never married

[Shark_Blade]

I thought they did omigosh

[ZariusTwo]

According to Radio Times, there's a post-credits scene attached to "The Six Thatchers", here's their review

On Monday evening, slightly less than a fortnight before it's due to air on New Year's Day on BBC1, an assembled group of press, BBC bigwigs, celebrities and the occasional politician sat down to watch The Six Thatchers, the first episode of Sherlock for a year and the opener to a new three-part series.

More than ever, there is a real determination to ensure that key plot points do not leak out ahead of broadcast. Before the screening, BBC director-general Tony Hall asked everyone in the audience to avoid sharing spoilers.

Then Sherlock creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat got up on stage to do the same. Twice. They did it again during the Q&A afterwards. There may or may not have been death threats attached. So you definitely won't find any major spoilers here. But I can provide a general view on the episode and tell you a few things that will give you a flavour of what to expect.

First up, how good is it?

Is it better than the previous one, last year's Victorian-Life-On-Mars-it-was-all-a-dream story? Definitely. Is it the best Sherlock ever? No, it's no Reichenbach Fall. It doesn't have quite the clever twists and turns of the series two finale, or the hypnotically intense relationship between Sherlock and Moriarty at its core. But is it good Sherlock? Certainly. And it should have enough to keep both general viewers and fan boys/girls engaged on the first evening of the new year – even if some of the story may be dark enough to make you wonder if it's still 2016.

It's no secret that John and Mary are now proud parents of a baby daughter called Rosamund (they posted the announcement in The Telegraph so I'm not taking the blame for that one) and we get to see them at home doing endearingly mundane baby stuff, and even a bit of Uncle Sherlock on babysitting duties.

There’s another funny bit with a dog, too. And there's heaps of action, including more on Mary’s backstory as a special operative and a great gritty Bond-style fight scene for Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock.

There's a Sherlock Holmes story fans of the originals will recognise, with a twist and lots of extras thrown in too, yet not so many that casual viewers will end up asking ‘what was that all about?’ like they did at the end of The Abominable Bride.

There are many mentions of Moriarty (try saying that five times fast) and numerous other references to Sherlock Holmes lore strewn throughout for aficionados to look out for, including another name that will cause a buzz in some quarters.

We learn something surprising – even shocking – about John Watson.
And there’s a conclusion that makes you wonder where the hell this is going to go next (luckily, you’ll only have a week to wait to find out).

Oh, and after that post-credits scene at the end of series three, stick around for another one. Just don't get your hopes up for another return for Moriarty – however much you might miss him.

Sherlock: The Six Thatchers is on New Year's Day at 8:30pm on BBC1

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-...g-for-everyone

[Mayhem]

Well that will answer questions people had earlier in the thread! And set up things nicely for the other two episodes...