SHERLOCK Season 4 Premiere Date Announced!

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Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman's Dr. Watson will be back for a fourth season of Sherlock. We already got our first teaser trailer, which you can watch below, and now the BBC has announced that it will premiere on January 1st, 2017! They also released a teaser image that you can check out below. 

It was previously revealed that episode one will be titled "The Six Thatchers," and episode two will be called "The Lying Detective," There's no word on what the third episode will be called, but Cumberbatch seemed pretty excited about it when he said, "Oh boy, you have got a lot coming to you in episode three."

There aren't really any story details yet, but it's been said that this upcoming season will tell a dark story that will have consequences. Judging from the teaser trailer, it's going to be incredibly intense. During a previous interview with EW, Steven Moffat said: 

"The first series was all about the beginning of their friendship. Second about the formative stages, the love and fear and loss and all that. The third was good days, me and my pal and my pal’s wife. Those are golden days. The missing element in a lot of Sherlock Holmes adaptations is allowing it to be funny. There’s a lot of humor in Sherlock Holmes, and it’s ignored in a lot of adaptations. [Season 4] is going to be… I suppose you’d say… consequences. It’s consequences. Chickens come to roost. It’s dark in some ways—obviously it’s great fun and a Sherlock Holmes romp and all that—but there’s a sense of… things… coming back to bite you. It’s not a safe, sensible way to live. It’s hilarious and exhilarating some days, but some days it’s going to be bloody frightening.

"[Fans will be] desperate for series 5. We’re certainly going to put them through the mill. It’s going to be more of an emotional upheaval. Hopefully enjoyable and fun, all the things Sherlock must always be. It will be tough at times. Maybe that’s the word? A tougher series."

I can't wait to see where the story is going to take these two characters next! 

Sherlock will return in The Six Thatchers on January 1, 2017. #Sherlock pic.twitter.com/9QT9vhPGLe

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