'Sherlock' Spoilers News: Show Runner Steven Moffat Teases Further Details on the Victorian-Era Special Episode
Last month, BBC One released the first look of the Christmas special segment for its wildly popular TV series "Sherlock." It featured two of its beloved characters, Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) and John Watson (Martin Freeman) sported the fashion of Victorian-era London.
As confirmed by the show's executive producer, Steven Moffat, it was revealed that the year-end segment will take the characters on a totally different timeline which is separate from the mainstream series.
"The special is its own thing. We wouldn't have done the story we're doing, and the way we're doing it, if we didn't have this special. It's not part of the run of three episodes. So we had this to do it – as we could hardly conceal – it's Victorian. [Co-creator Mark Gatiss] and me, we wanted to do this, but it had to be a special, it had to be separate entity on its own. It's kind of in its own little bubble," Moffat told Entertainment Weekly.
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The executive producer gave further details about the Christmas special during the Television Critics Association's press tour event in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday, saying that viewers will find Cumberbatch's titular character "a little more polished."
"He operates like a Victorian gentleman instead of a posh, rude man. He's a lot less brattish," Moffat said.
Sherlock's right hand man (Freeman), meanwhile, will be "more uptight."
As for the time traveling issue, Moffat said that there won't be any explaining about it.
"We never bothered explaining what they were doing in modern London, so why bother explaining what they're doing in Victorian London, when that's where they're supposed to be?" the show boss clarified.
The standalone segment is expected to air later this 2015.
