Sherlock is planned to return for a third series, Martin Freeman has confirmed. Freeman, who stars as John Watson in the British detective series, appeared on The Graham Norton Show last night to talk about plans for the show’s future.
“The plan is we will do a third series,” Freeman shared. “There’s certainly more to do and I would like to do it… It’s one of the few things I’ve done ever really where I think ‘I’d like to do a lot of these’. It’s a very nice way to spend your time.”
Freeman, who became famous following his role as Tim Canterbury in the British comedy series The Office back in 2001-2003, is currently working on the upcoming fantasy film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and its sequel, The Hobbit: There and Back Again. Freeman is portraying the main role of Bilbo Baggins, a younger version of the character played by Ian Holm. Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock Holmes) will also appear in both Hobbit films as two separate villains: the Necromancer and Smaug the dragon.
Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss (who also portrays Sherlock’s brother Mycroft) has addressed the idea of a third series previously, saying, “You’ll have to see if they survive this one.” The season two finale is titled, after all, “The Reichenbach Fall,” a reference to the famous Sherlock Holmes story in which author Arthur Conan Doyle killed Holmes off (before resurrecting him a few years later).
Sherlock airs Sunday night in the UK with the second episode of series 2, “The Hounds of Baskerville.”
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