{"id":57783,"date":"2015-08-02T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=57783"},"modified":"2015-09-19T11:02:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T03:02:02","slug":"steven-moffat-on-sherlock-special-how-long-series-can-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/02\/steven-moffat-on-sherlock-special-how-long-series-can-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Moffat on &#8216;Sherlock&#8217; special; how long series can go"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 70.875421% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/482543326?et=gn3Gw6ToTb1-Ko5iqnISMA&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=cOQi5YE4-KUvHkY_leVFMLcCapM2Ro0NNbhshs-Kw7g=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"421\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0 0 0 10px; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/482543326\" target=\"_blank\">View image<\/a> | <a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>BEVERLY HILLS, California &#8212; &#8220;Sherlock&#8221; fans have grown familiar with the waiting game between TV seasons, but they may be encouraged that show-runner Steven Moffat says he could see it &#8220;going on for a long while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to TV critics Saturday at a bi-annual panel, Moffat said he and co-executive producer, Mark Gatiss, are game to keep going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it will be us that switch it off. I imagine it&#8217;ll be down to Benedict (Cumberbatch) and Martin (Freeman.) Obviously we can&#8217;t do the show without them, and they&#8217;ve always said they&#8217;re happy to carry on so long as it&#8217;s good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Moffat would embrace a more mature Sherlock and Watson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to see them age, not because I&#8217;m a sadist. Just because it would be interesting to see them become the more traditional age of those characters, which is in their fifties. They&#8217;re much younger than the normal version.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Production on new episodes is expected to begin in the spring of 2016, but Cumberbatch and Freeman filmed a one-off episode set in the Victorian-era that has been rumored to air this Christmas in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve never said it&#8217;s a Christmas special,&#8221; said Moffat&#8217;s wife and &#8220;Sherlock&#8221; producer Sue Vertue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s probably Christmas-ish,&#8221; added Moffat. &#8220;We don&#8217;t actually know. We&#8217;re not making this up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we are working very hard on it to not frustrate the fans who know it&#8217;s on BBC and want to see it,&#8221; added PBS&#8217; Masterpiece Chief Rebecca Eaton.<\/p>\n<p>What Moffat could say was that his leads enjoyed doing a period &#8220;Sherlock,&#8221; but one actor seemed to like it more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the end, Martin was ready to go back to the more acerbic version, but I think Benedict really enjoyed being Victorian Holmes. He was saying halfway through, &#8220;Let&#8217;s always do this. I quite like it,'&#8221; said Moffat.<\/p>\n<p>They decided to jump back in time for an episode because &#8220;We checked the books and discovered we got it wrong,&#8221; joked Moffat. &#8220;We should have read them first. No, just because we can, really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Viewers should not expect an explanation for the time jump. &#8220;We never bothered explaining what they were doing in modern London, so why bother explaining what they&#8217;re doing in Victorian London, when that&#8217;s where they&#8217;re supposed to be?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moffat also commented on the British government potentially yanking public funding from the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It staggers me that we got a government that got elected and decided the main problem with Britain is our national broadcaster&#8230; There must be something more important to do,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com BEVERLY HILLS, California &#8212; &#8220;Sherlock&#8221; fans have grown familiar with the waiting game between TV seasons, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":57897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-entertainment","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}