'Sherlock' Season 4 Spoilers: Benedict Cumberbatch's Onscreen Love Interest Irene Adler to Return?

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By Sonalee singh | June 20, 2014 12:53 PM EST




There is still no news as to when would "Sherlock" season 4 would go on air but fans can't wait to know as to what all would happen in the new season of BBC's immensely popular detective series.  The much evident question in the fans mind is the return of Sherlock's potential love interest Irene Adler.

The character, portrayed as a dominatrix by Lara Pulver left an indelible impression when she almost beat Sherlock Holmes in the episode called "The Scandal in Bohemia". After that she only appeared once in Sherlock's mind palace in the episode called "The Sign of Three". Interestingly, Adler appeared in Sherlock's imagination in all her naked glory.

Would Adler return in Season 4? Fans think that the spark she shares with Sherlock it would be hard for her to stay away from him forever and she may return in Season 4. However, if the creators go by Sir Arthur Thomas Doyle's stories, then Irene may never come back as she does not appear after "The Scandal in Bohemia" (the short story "A Scandal in Belgravia," in which Sherlock meets the character, is based on).

However, Benedict Cumberbatch, would love to have Pulver back on the show as Irene.

"She was terrific fun," he told the Radio Times last year. "She was so brilliant in [Series 2] and we'd love to have her back. Maybe not in this series, but she's a great strong character, even though she only appeared once."

But one of the co-creators Mark Gatiss, who also plays Sherlock's brother Mycroft Holmes, is in doubts whether Adler's character should be brought back or not.


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Sherlock Series 3: Lara Pulver teases Irene Adler return, saying “I didn’t say you wouldn’t be seeing me”!

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September 12th, 2013 by Anna Howell.

After previously admitting that she could see her character making a Sherlock return, actress Lara Pulver has hinted that we may be seeing Irene Adler again in series 3!

Pulver’s entrance as Adler in series 2 as a dominatrix who repeatedly outwitted Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) before being finally defeated herself, caused quite a stir in “A Scandal in Belgravia” with many complaining to Ofcom about her opening scene, in which she sits completely naked. The flirty minx got right inside Sherlock’s head, and heart a little bit after bombarding him with text messages asking him to meet her for dinner.

However, despite the obvious attraction, it was earlier reported that the character would not be featuring in the new series of Sherlock, which is due to air on our screens either late this year or early next, despite Lara Pulver suggesting that we have not seen the last of her. However, in a recent interview with the Radio Times Pulver has now hinted that these reports could be wrong and that her character might be making an appearance in the tightly guarded series 3.


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‘Oh Come On!’ Sherlock Actress Lara Pulver Denies Dating Benedict CumberbatchShe slams the Daily Mail… (E.)

Lara Pulver might have got ‘naked’ on the set of Sherlock when playing opposite Benedict Cumberbatch on the hit show, but business is business and the actress denies that they are dating in real life, slamming a report that suggests that the two were “completely engrossed” with each other.

The actress has tweeted about the Daily Mail report, criticising the paper’s facts.

"Oh come on, it's the Mail! I've never read a more factually incorrect article," she wrote, while tagging a Sherlock fan, who had questioned whether the story was true.

Benedict and Lara attended the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards last week along with other members from the Sherlock cast and crew, but according to a source they seemed more than friends.

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'Sherlock' Actors Benedict Cumberbatch And Lara Pulver Dating For Real? (E.)

BY REBECCA LEWIS ON OCTOBER 22, 2012

She teased him with her naked body, he showed off his sleuth skills - could fiction become reality?

 Sherlock actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Lara Pulver are rumoured to be dating after recently breaking off long term relationships. The episode 'A Scandal in Belgravia', where Lara appeared naked before Benedict and costar Martin Freeman, attracted 100 complaints at the time, but perhaps Benedict wasn't one of them? The couple were seen flirting at last Thursdays Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards where Benedict picked up an award for Sherlock and took Lara as his plus one.

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Lara Pulver Discusses If She’ll Return In Sherlock Season 3 Saturday, October 13th, 2012 at 12:30pm (SPIN OFF ON LINE)

So far all we know about the third season of BBC’s Sherlock are three words: “Rat. Wedding. Bow.” It’s not much to go on, but it’s plenty to get excited about.

It turns out that not even the actors involved — or those that could be involved — know what’s going to be happening in the hit drama’s next three episodes.

“I have no idea,” Lara Pulver, who played Irene Adler in the first episode of Season 2, told reporters at New York Comic Con before she burst out laughing. “We start shooting in January, Season 3. They’re writing the episodes — three episodes — as we speak. I have no idea if she’ll stay as a one-episode wonder or whether she’ll return for the final season.”

“A Scandal in Belgravia” was nominated for an Emmy, but ended up losing to HBO’s Game Change. Pulver said that, in this case, she expected the overwhelmingly positive response to the episode and her character.

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Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman: 'Sherlock’ Season 3 Stories Revealed; Fall 2013 Premiere (SCREEN RANT)

As usual, Moffat is tight-lipped about what fans can expect and, instead, offered hints in the form of three simple words: “Rat. Wedding. Bow.” The words line up perfectly with another set of well-known stories from Arthur Conan Doyle’s collected Sherlock adventures – but the matching of “Bow” could prove to be a bittersweet revelation for fans of the series.


Viewers should easily recognize the connections between the words and last year’s “based on” stories:

Woman = A Scandal in Bohemia
Hound = The Hounds of Baskerville
Fall = The Final Problem

Today, Moffat followed-up the tease with his promised “Three Words” reveal tweet:

So. The three tease words for the next run of Sherlock … Rat. Wedding. Bow.

Following the same logic, which not only reveals which stories Moffat intends to reinterpret, we can also expect the episodes to air in the following order:

Rat = The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire (or possibly Moffat intends to expand on the oft-referenced case of The Giant Rat Of Sumatra)
Wedding = The Noble Bachelor
Bow = His Last Bow

Both “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire,” which contains a reference to ”The Giant Rat Of Sumatra” (“A story for which the world is not yet prepared.”) and “The Noble Bachelor” (centered around the disappearance of a bride on her wedding night) should provide plenty of engaging story material for the show’s writers and viewers. However, as mentioned, the final story connection “His Last Bow,” has a lot of fans wondering if season three of Sherlock could also the last.

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Benedict Cumberbatch: Is an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie the Best Birthday Present Ever? (SCOOP IT)

As you'd expect, the competition is fierce for the Best Actor gong. Mr Cumberbatch is up against Kevin Costner, Idris Elba, Bill Paxton, Clive Owen and Woody Harrelson. Incredibly that makes the British contingent in this award a whopping 50%.

The other nominations for Sherlock are:

Outstanding Miniseries or Movie: Sherlock: A Scandal In Belgravia (Masterpiece)
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie: Martin Freeman, as Dr. John Watson
Outstanding Directing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Dramatic Special
Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special
Outstanding Casting For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
Outstanding Cinematography For A Miniseries Or Movie
Outstanding Art Direction For A Miniseries Or Movie
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Miniseries Or A Movie
Outstanding Costumes For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Miniseries Or A Movie
Outstanding Sound Editing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
Outstanding Music Composition For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Original Dramatic Score)

Credit to 'lestrade.tumblr.com' for trawling through the Emmy website and finding all of these.

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Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Joanne Froggatt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Bonneville, Brendan Coyle, Jim Carter, Downton Abbey, Sherlock all receive Emmy Nominations!

http://www.emmys.com/nominations/2012/Outstanding%20Supporting%20Actress%20In%20A%20Drama%20Series 

'Sherlock' season premiere review: Was 'A Scandal in Belgravia' a Holmes romp, or a sexist rout? by Ken Tucker (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY)

Sherlock returned for a second season Sunday night on PBS’ Masterpiece Mystery!, and offered its take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia” by giving you a chance to match wits with the Master in… cracking the password to Irene Adler’s smartphone.

The first installment of a scant three-episode season commenced with “A Scandal in Belgravia,” which quickly dispatched with last season’s swimming pool cliffhanger to get on with an adaptation of the first Holmes short story and one of the few in which the Great Detective is out-smarted by someone else. Irene Adler, played by Lara Pulver, a seductive woman who plots to blackmail the royal family, is referred to in Conan Doyle’s story and in the Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss adaptation as “the woman,” intended as a phrase of admiration for her intelligence and crafty allure.

The TV version emphasized this by making Adler a clever-tongued dominatrix who aroused the hetero-man in Holmes (his first glimpse of her was in the buff — Irene, not Sherlock) even as she stimulated his deductive powers. (And, perhaps, initially confounded them: Holmes, who draws so many instant conclusions about people via their clothes, could not form too many opinions about a nekkid Irene Adler beyond, “Hubba-hubba, pip-pip!”)


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Benedict Cumberbatch: Sherlock; Twitter Events (MASTERPIECE)

Join Masterpiece as we celebrate the return of Sherlock season two with you during a live Twitter event on Sundays, May 6, 13 & 20, 2012, during the premiere broadcasts of A Scandal in Belgravia, The Hounds of Baskerville and The Reichenbach Fall.

You're welcomed whenever you're watching, but during 9-10:30pm Eastern time, Masterpiece and PBS insiders — as well as Sherlock experts from Baker Street Blog, Baker Street Babes, and authors Lyndsay Faye (Sherlock Holmes in America) and Leslie Klinger (The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes) — will be tweeting too.

 Tag your posts with the hashtag #SherlockPBS, or use your own favorite aggregator.

WHAT: Masterpiece and PBS are hosting a live Twitter discussion!

 WHEN: Sundays, May 6, 13 & 20, 2012, 9-10:30pm Eastern time

WHERE: Join us on Twitter or an alternate aggregator (Use hashtag #SherlockPBS.)

TOPICS: Sherlock Holmes, clever deductions, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, MASTERPIECE Mystery!

WHO: @masterpiecepbs; @pbs; Taylor Blumenberg of @BakerStBabes; Scott Monty of @BakerStreetBlog; author Lyndsay Faye (@lyndsayfaye); author Leslie Klinger (@lklinger) — and YOU! 

RSVP: Please follow and be followed (on Twitter, of course!) by other #SherlockPBS tweeters




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Benedict Cumberbatch: A Scandal in Belgravia (SHERLOCK - MASTERPIECE MYSTERY)

Watch Sherlock Season 2: A Scene from Ep. 1 on PBS. See more from Masterpiece.

SEASON 2: SUNDAYS, MAY 6 - 20, 2012 The dynamic, if dysfunctional duo of Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch, War Horse) and Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman, The Hobbit), battles the worst of 21st- century London, including a tech savvy arch-villain who wants to rule the world and a hound from the hinges of Hell.

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sherlock/

Benedict Cumberbatch: Sherlock nude scenes are great publicity, (METRO)

Scenes from BBC show Sherlock in which Lara Pulver stripped naked serve as 'great publicity' for the series, Benedict Cumberbatch has admitted.

Cumberbatch, whose eponymous character was confronted by a nude Irene Adler (played by Lara Pulver) in Sherlock's first episode of series two, seemed dismissive of the controversy surrounding the scenes. 'It's great publicity, isn't it?' Cumberbatch told the US Television Critics Association when he was asked about the BBC's decision to air the saucy footage.

 'I think there's an awful lot of support for the way that we did it (the scene) and the taste that we did it with. And if it creates more interest in the programme, thank you very much for that.' Some viewers complained about the nudity being shown pre-watershed, after an article appeared in the Daily Mail criticising the scenes in which Pulver's character was seen spanking Sherlock.

The episode, titled A Scandal in Belgravia, saw Holmes being confronted by dominatrix Adler, but Cumberbatch is adamant that the scenes were not intentionally contentious. 'It's not supposed to be a source of stimulation for the audience. It's supposed to throw his (Holmes') radar off, which is exactly what it does.'


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Benedict Cumberbatch: Sherlock, Season 2, May 6, 2012 (MASTERPIECE MYSTERY)

Watch Sherlock Season 2: A Scene from Ep. 1 on PBS. See more from Masterpiece.

See a scene from Sherlock season 2, A Scandal in Belgravia, premiering May 6, 2012.

Sherlock, the world's foremost consulting detective (Benedict Cumberbatch, War Horse, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and the beleaguered Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman, The Hobbit, The Office UK) stalk again in three thrilling new episodes.

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