'I do miss it': Steven Moffat is willing to revive Sherlock
Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat is hopeful of reviving the BBC drama at some point in the future if lead stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are interested.
Steven Moffat is keen to “revisit” Sherlock.
The 64-year-old screenwriter co-created the BBC drama - based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes - along with Mark Gatiss and revealed that he would be willing to revive the show, which last aired in 2017, if cast members Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman could be “persuaded” to return as Holmes and Watson respectively.
Asked if he would return to Sherlock, Moffat told the Half the Picture podcast: "Of course I'd revisit it, yeah. What can you ever say, that you’ve run out of Sherlock Holmes stories? There are 60 originals. We’ve done, what is it, 13 or 14? I can never remember.
"There’s loads more you could do with Sherlock. I’d quite like to revisit it simply because they would now - our two leads - be the normal age for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. We did younger ones. They’re normally presented as about 50 - which is not completely accurate to the books, but [Basil] Rathbone and [Nigel] Bruce are about 50, [Jeremy] Brett and his Watsons were about 50 when they did it.
"We were conscious that we were doing the beginning of the story, consciously doing younger ones. So I’d quite like to see them as their more middle-aged, settled versions."
The Scottish writer added: "I don’t think it’s used up, actually."
Moffat also discussed how he had the “extraordinary” task of juggling his work on Sherlock with his duties as showrunner on the BBC’s legendary sci-fi show Doctor Who at the same time.
He said: "I'd quite like to do it again, really. I loved it. I absolutely loved it. It was an extraordinary time, because I was doing that exactly the same time as I did Doctor Who – the two things, literally exactly the same time.
"I went from a normal television life to being the guy, or one of the guys in charge of Doctor Who, and one of the guys in charge of Sherlock, going, 'What the hell happened there?' It was like being hit by a very nice bus.
"It was a manic time. I never ever stopped working, or stopped worrying, or stopped fretting. I loved that show. I look at it now and I watch it, and I think all of it is excellent. I just think it’s really, really well made, beautifully acted, dare I say it, beautifully written show. I think it's cracking. And I’m massively, massively proud of it. And I miss it. I do miss it."
