Plan B Forum

After the end of the final episode of the second series, Moffat and Gatiss both announced on Twitter that a third series was commissioned at the same time as series two. A part of the resolution to "The Reichenbach Fall" was filmed alongside series two. Executive producer Beryl Vertue confirmed, in March 2012, that the third series is expected to start production in early 2013, although it was too soon to relate any transmission details. Moffat later confirmed that the third series would begin production in January 2013. Gatiss has confirmed that he will write the first episode of the third series, and that it would be 'loosely based' on "The Adventure of the Empty House", in which Conan Doyle revealed that Holmes had faked his death. Gatiss also revealed that he plans to have Watson react very differently from the original character at the discovery of Holmes's return in season three; "I always found it a little unlikely that Dr Watson's only reaction was to faint for instance—as opposed to possibly a stream of terrible swear words," he said. Moffat and Thompson will again write the other two episodes.

Moffat aspires to tackle the fact that eventually Watson will be living apart from Holmes, though he's uncertain whether he'll have Watson get married in this adaptation. Moffat also wants to use other villains and adversaries from Conan Doyle's original stories. Without revealing if Moriarty faked his own death at the end of series two, Moffat has suggested that Moriarty will not feature heavily in future series of Sherlock.

Moffat and Gatiss have announced three words that allude to the content of the third series. These words were, "rat, wedding, bow". Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in August 2012, Moffat said that these words "may be misleading, are not titles, are only teases or possibly clues, but might be deliberately designed to get you into a lather."

Daisy wrote:I've seen a couple of episodes of Elementary, so far so good - very different from Sherlock though.

One thing that struck me is Just how many US programmes I'm watching that has a Brit in one of the lead or recurring roles.

Homeland - Damien Lewis, Nicholas Brody
Alphas - Ryan Cartwright, Gary Bell
Lie to Me (they cancelled this the bastards!) - Tim Roth, Cal Lightman
Arrow - Colin Salmon, Walter Steele

Is this down to the "House" effect?

Daisy wrote:I've seen a couple of episodes of Elementary, so far so good - very different from Sherlock though.

One thing that struck me is Just how many US programmes I'm watching that has a Brit in one of the lead or recurring roles.

Homeland - Damien Lewis, Nicholas Brody
Alphas - Ryan Cartwright, Gary Bell
Lie to Me (they cancelled this the bastards!) - Tim Roth, Cal Lightman
Arrow - Colin Salmon, Walter Steele

Is this down to the "House" effect?