**SPOILER ALERT FOR THE SHERLOCK SEASON 4 FINALE**
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Sherlock Season 5?
Despite doubts over the future of the series, the events at the end of tonight’s fourth season finale (BBC One), “The Final Problem,” could serve to ‘reboot’ the series, EP Mark Gatiss informs RadioTimes:
“Our original intention of the series was to go back to the beginning and see them as younger men and… restore it to its factory settings. But I think what’s actually happened is that we have now done the story of how the Sherlock Homes and Doctor Watson that we have always known, how they became those men. It’s actually really a backstory.
The reason we [ended with] Rathbone Place is that, actually, if we do come back – and we would love to come back – we could absolutely very easily start with a knock at the door and Sherlock saying to John ‘Do you want to come out and play?’. They have become the two heroes that we always knew them to be.”
However, “The Final Problem” could also serve as the series finale, should Season 5 fail to materialize, per EP Steven Moffat:
“If this was the last time – we’re not planning it, but it might be, it’s possible – we could end it there. We couldn’t have ended it on any of the previous series because they always ended up with whopping great cliffhangers.”
[Any] fifth series would see Sherlock and John solving crimes”.
Stay tuned as we continue to monitor the cancel/renew status of Sherlock Season 5…
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