Sherlock, Series 4: Mark Gatiss confirms start of shooting as Benedict Cumberbatch says fans ‘won’t wait long’

The updated Arthur Conan Doyle mystery series is returning with three more 90-minute episodes
Confirmed: Mark Gatiss reveals that Sherlock Series 4 is now shooting
BBC/Hartswood Films
Ben Travis6 April 2016

The news that Sherlock fans have been awaiting for two long years is finally here: Series 4 is now in production.

The news comes from a video posted on Twitter, which sees writer and Mycroft Holmes actor Mark Gatiss holding a Sherlock IV clapperboard and saying: “We’re back… the game is on!”

Following the one-off (sort of) Victorian-set 2015 New Year’s special The Abominable Bride, the three-part fourth series will consist of three feature-length episodes, once again starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.

Best of all for fans, Cumberbatch reassured them that they won’t be waiting too long for the new episodes.

“I can't wait for everyone to see Season 4,” he said. “But you will have to wait... though not for long... And it will be worth it.”

The new series will see Watson and his wife Mary become parents, while creators Gatiss and Steven Moffat hint that the episodes will concern ‘ghosts of the past’.

“Whatever else we do, wherever we all go, all roads lead back to Baker Street - and it always feels like coming home,” they said.

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“Ghosts of the past are rising in the lives of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson bringing adventure, romance and terror in their wake. This is the story we’ve been telling from the beginning. A story about to reach its climax...”

The show’s return can’t come soon enough.

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