Sherlock Season 4: Premieres New Year's Day

Sherlock returns to the U.S. tonight  (January 1) in "The Six Thatchers" on PBS MASTERPIECE. There will be three brand-new episodes. Season Four begins with the mercurial Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch), back once more on British soil as Doctor Watson (Martin Freeman) and his wife Mary (Amanda Abbington) prepare for their biggest challenge yet: becoming parents.

Co-creators, writers and executive producers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss say: “Whatever else we do, wherever we all go, all roads lead back to Baker Street, and it always feels like coming home. Ghosts of the past are rising in the lives of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson and terror and tragedy are looming. This is the story we’ve been telling from the beginning and it’s about to reach its climax.”

Sherlock is written and created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, and inspired by the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Toby Jones joins Benedict Cumberbatch & Martin Freeman on Sherlock

Toby Jones (Infamous, The Secret Agent, The Girl) is confirmed to star in the fourth season of Sherlock on MASTERPIECE PBS, produced by Hartswood Films for BBC One and co-produced with MASTERPIECE.

Toby Jones will star in the second episode of the brand new three-part season, which starts filming today. Episode two will be directed by Nick Hurran, who was Emmy®-nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries for "His Last Vow", a season three Sherlock episode.

Toby Jones said: “I'm excited and intrigued by the character I shall be playing in Sherlock..." Rumor has it that he will be a villain.

Promising laughter, tears, shocks, surprises and extraordinary cases, it was announced last month that season four will begin with the nation’s favorite detective, the mercurial Sherlock Holmes, back once more on British soil, as Doctor Watson and his wife, Mary, prepare for their biggest ever challenge - becoming parents for the first time.

Sherlock is written and created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, and inspired by the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock is produced by Sue Vertue and the executive producers are Beryl Vertue, Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat for Hartswood Films, Bethan Jones for BBC Cymru Wales and Rebecca Eaton for MASTERPIECE. It is distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide.

MASTERPIECE BOOK CLUB for Sherlock Fans and others

MASTERPIECE on PBS has just launched The MASTERPIECE Book Club. The club will serve as the destination for book-loving MASTERPIECE fans, hosting exciting features for popular programs such as Sherlock and Downton Abbey. Features will include recommended reading related to current MASTERPIECE shows, insights into what cast and crew are reading, related recipes perfect for a book club meeting, British book news, and much more. (I've posted my own recipes for Scones on DyingforChocolate.com to accompany Downton Abbey viewing--check out Mrs Patmore's Chocolate Cherry Scones here)

Sherlock enthusiasts will get reading inspiration from Sherlock co-creator and actor Mark Gatiss, who reveals his favorite Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories and the mystery authors he reads most. Sherlock book club features also include a list of titles to make anyone a Sherlock Holmes expert and cookbooks from bestselling mystery authors.
(Check out the Sherlock Holmes cookbooks from my tie-in cook book collection in Mystery Readers Journal: Culinary Crime II).

There will be special collections assembled for other MASTERPIECE mysteries including Endeavour and Inspector Lewis later this summer.
Visit pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/podcast-book-club/

NOTE: Sherlock’s 90-minute special, The Abominable Bride, will be rebroadcast on Sunday, January 10th at 10pm EST.

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

TONIGHT!

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson return in a 90-minute special, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, set in 1890s London. Watch the premiere tonight: Friday, January 1, at 9pm or online at pbs.org/masterpiece. In the San Francisco Bay Area, an encore airs Sunday, January 10, at 10pm on KQED 9.

Sherlock: A First Look at the Sherlock Special

Here's an exclusive scene from the forthcoming Sherlock Special, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and Una Stubbs. Coming Soon to MASTERPIECE PBS (we hope!). The special is a throwback to Sherlock in tweeds, meersham pipe, and deerstalker. The clip was unveiled yesterday at ComicCon.

And, an FYI, Series 4 has not begun-neither writing nor filming. 

SHERLOCK: Live Twitter Event

Just a reminder that SHERLOCK Season 3 premieres this Sunday, January 19 at 9:58 pm on MASTERPIECE/PBS.

Join MASTERPIECE and PBS for a live Twitter event of the premiere broadcasts of each of the 3 episodes of Sherlock Season 3 -- January 19, 25 and February 2 at 9:58-11:30 ET.


Follow along with @PBS, @masterpiecepbs, Scott Monty from the Baker Street Blaog @IHearofSherlock, James Hibberd from Entertainment Weekly @James Hibberd, and Leslie Klinger, author of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes @lklinger.

Sherlock Holmes Season 3: Giveaway, News, and Trailer

*** BOOK GIVEAWAY. Make a comment below about SHERLOCK to be entered in a drawing for 5 copies of The Sherlock FILES. ***

A companion book, The Sherlock Files, has been published to accompany the BBC One and PBS broadcast of SHERLOCK. Author Guy Adams covers the first two seasons in vivid detail through fictional excerpts from Dr. Watson's blog, Inspector Lestrade's police reports, and Sherlock's notes. Interviews with stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, and with writers/co-creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat are also included.

MASTERPIECE on PBS will air the third season of SHERLOCK beginning on Sunday, January 19, 2014 for three consecutive Sunday Nights.

 

Nearly 11 million viewers tuned into the second season of Sherlock, which ended with one of the most shocking cliffhangers in television history. Fans flocked to the internet to speculate about Sherlock’s “demise,” and express their eagerness to find out what happens next.

"We are hugely excited about this next series of Sherlock, and have worked closely with our partners, MASTERPIECE and PBS, to bring these episodes to U.S. audiences in January," says Sue Vertue, executive producer for Sherlock and Hartswood Films, which coproduces Sherlock with MASTERPIECE and BBC Wales for BBC One. "We promise our fans that Season 3 is worth waiting for."

Emmy® and Golden Globe®-nominated and winner of a Peabody Award, Sherlock has been a television sensation since the first season aired in 2010, with critics calling it "triumphant" (Hollywood Reporter), "crackling with imagination" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "seduction through deduction" (Los Angeles Times).

Sherlock helped make megastars of Cumberbatch and Freeman, whose portrayals of the famous crime fighting duo USA Today described as “two of the best performances you’ll see anywhere.”

As in previous seasons, titles for the three episodes are pegged to a classic Sherlock Holmes title by Arthur Conan Doyle—delightfully, wittily, and briskly updated, of course.

“The Empty Hearse” – Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 10pm on MASTERPIECE

“The Sign of Three” – Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 10pm on MASTERPIECE

“His Last Vow” – Sunday, February 2, 2014 at 10pm on MASTERPIECE

Related news:

PBS airs a new 2-hour special, How Sherlock Changed the World, at 9pm on Thursday, December 17, 2013. The program looks at real-life crimes solved by the equipment, forensic techniques, and methods of detection used by the fictional detective.

Seasons 1 and 2 of SHERLOCK will be streamed before season 3's premiere; streaming dates TBA. Visit MASTERPIECE website or MASTERPIECE Facebook for all SHERLOCK news.

Sherlock Holmes Masterpiece Mystery! Season 2

Sherlock returns to Masterpiece Mystery! PBS this Sunday night at 9 p.m (check your local listing), and the new season--three new episodes, hardly a season, but thrilled to have them-- are great. May 6-20, 2012, Sunday nights. PBS has taken three well known tales and updated them in a very unique way. The stories are there, but the background and delivery is so different. Love the acting-the dysfunctional duo of Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch and Dr. John Watson, Martin Freeman, battles the worst of 21st- century London, including a tech savvy arch-villain who wants to rule the world and a hound from the hinges of Hell. Don't miss Season 2. Season 3 won't start filming until 2013.

If for some reason you can't watch live or forget to set your DVR, the episodes will be available for a short time after aired on the PBS website.


Join Masterpiece Sherlock season two with a live Twitter event on Sundays, May 6, 13 & 20, 2012, during the premiere broadcasts of A Scandal in Belgravia, The Hounds of Baskerville and The Reichenbach Fall.

You're welcome whenever you're watching, but during 9-10:30 pm Eastern time, Masterpiece and PBS insiders — as well as Sherlock experts from Baker Street Blog, Baker Street Babes, and authors Lyndsay Faye (Sherlock Holmes in America) and Leslie Klinger (The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes) — will be tweeting too.

Tag your posts with the hashtag #SherlockPBS 

WHAT: Masterpiece and PBS are hosting a live Twitter discussion! 

WHEN: Sundays, May 6, 13 & 20, 2012, 9-10:30pm Eastern time

WHERE: Join on Twitter (Use hashtag #SherlockPBS.)

TOPICS: Sherlock Holmes, clever deductions, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, MASTERPIECE Mystery! 

WHO: @masterpiecepbs; @pbs; Taylor Blumenberg of @BakerStBabes; Scott Monty of @BakerStreetBlog; author Lyndsay Faye (@lyndsayfaye); author Leslie Klinger (@lklinger) — and YOU!

RSVP: Please follow and be followed (on Twitter, of course!) by other #SherlockPBS tweeters