Sherlock Holmes Season 4 News: You wouldn't want to hear another sad news about Sherlock Holmes Season 4 but here it is: writer and executive producer Mark Gatiss has confirmed that it will really take another two years for season 4 to materialize. Holmes fans will have to wait until 2016 for the Sherlock Holmes Season 4 due to the programme's format. Since each season consists of three 90-minute 'films', Gatiss admitted it that it would be difficult to work any quicker, according to Mirror.
In a fan Q&A session in Brazil about Sherlock Holmes Season 4 news, "Mycroft Holmes" actor explained: "Writing three films is quite a lot of work and then getting everyone together... [it's] increasingly difficult to get everyone's diaries to align, so we couldn't really do more than three every couple of years I'm afraid. I mean, we'd certainly like to reduce the time, but by the time we've finished and then everyone starts gearing up again, it roughly takes that long," the Holmes actor added.
The original plan of the Benedict Cumberbatch 'sexiest detective' character of the Sherlock Holmes series was originally a six-part series of 60-minute episodes - and it could have made a difference. Gatiss elaborated: "We ended up doing 90 minute episodes by accident. We made a 60 minute pilot and that was going to be the format of the series. We were going to have six, hour-long episodes.
"I think if we'd done that everything would be very different. We would do one where it was mostly Dr Watson, or Mrs Hudson investigates or something like that."
People calling the postponement a bluff have to think twice as one of the lead actor is talking about it as well.
Martin Freeman has revealed that the plans to shoot Sherlock Holmes season 4 soon have definitely been scrapped.
"The Hobbit" actor - who also plays John Watson in the BBC One famous detective series - confirmed that there were indeed plans to shoot season 4 of Sherlock Holmes after his appearance in the West End playing Richard III but it was altered.
"It's very hard to get together," he told Digital Spy. "But it's one of those things where you have to at some point just go, 'We're going to do it now' - otherwise we could be having this conversation in three years."
Freeman added to the website: "There comes a point where you've got to p*** or get off the pot."
