Sherlock to return on New Year's Day
Sherlock will return to BBC1 on New Year's Day when the mystery will finally be resolved how the sleuth survived that plunge to his apparent certain death.
The BBC took the unusual step of using an empty hearse, with its return date spelled out in the back, travelling around central London on Friday to announce its return.
Its use of Twitter and the hashtag #sherlocklives was rather more de rigeur, ensuring that the show was trending on Twitter as fans were sent into a frenzy by its imminent return.
The exact return date of the show, for a new three-part series, has been the source of much speculation – almost as much as the mystery around his fall – since it was revealed it would return in the US on 19 January.
The first episode of the new show will be called, appropriately enough, The Empty Hearse.
It has been two years since it was last on the BBC, since when its stars Benedict Cumberbatch, in Star Trek sequel Into Darkness, and Martin Freeman, in The Hobbit, have been catapulted into the top tier of big screen talent.
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