Sherlock Season 4: 'Filming Plans Scrapped', Reveals Actor Martin Freeman

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
By Arjun Varma
April 19, 2014 07:48 GMT




Filming for the fourth season of the popular British show Sherlock has been postponed.

Martin Freeman, who plays John Watson in the global hit series, has revealed that plans to start filming soon have been scrapped.

"It's very hard to get together," he told Digital Spy. "But it's one of those things where you have to at some point just go, 'We're going to do it now' - otherwise we could be having this conversation in three years."

He added: "There comes a point where you've got to p*** or get off the pot."

A BBC spokesman recently told Mirror Online that filming depends mainly on cast availability: "Conversations are still ongoing regarding Sherlock's return. Steven Moffat has already said that he has mapped out a fourth series, but it is always depending on cast availability.

"The last series was a fantastic hit for us and we're massively proud of the show," the spokesperson added, stating that every member of the team of is keen to start filming as soon as schedules work out.


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Character Face-Off: Lucy Liu's Watson vs. Martin Freeman's Watson

ZIMBIO
By Hayley Igarashi on January 23, 2014



Let's take a break from our busy lives to focus on a matter of some importance: the curious incident of two modern-day Watsons sharing primetime space on our televisions. In another world, one without bias or fandoms at the ready, we could let these two Watsons coexist peacefully — as equals, even.

But this is our world. We don't let two characters share a name without picking a favorite — no, a champion — to crush the less-worthy upstart in a showdown of our own imagination.

So sorry, Elementary's Lucy Liu and Sherlock's Martin Freeman. You both seem nice, but we can't like you equally. Only one of you can be the fairest Watson in TV land. As our favorite consulting detective would say, the game is afoot!

Round 1: The Name
In one corner, we've got Freeman's Dr. John Watson — in the other, Liu's Dr. Joan Watson. Now yes, the nifty gender swap sort of necessitated a name swap, but we're not sure if we're feeling the moniker change. Sometimes classic is just better. (Try Shirley Holmes and Irwin Adler. See? Also not as fun.)

Winner: Martin Freeman's Watson

Round 2: The Backstory
MF Watson's backstory matches up with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's description, that of a recently returned army man battling his own demons from his tour in Afghanistan, but LL's gets a little tweaking. In Elementary, she's a surgeon-turned-sober companion, a former career woman who gave up on the medical profession after making a mistake that cost her patient his life. As a sober companion, she's assigned to Sherlock, who's just been released from rehab.  What that gives us is a complex and dependent relationship that seems more realistic than Doyle's version — at least when transplanted to the 21st century.

Winner: Lucy Liu's Watson

Round 3: The Sidekick (jk)
Jonny Lee Miller's Sherlock is certainly endearing and compelling, but it's hard to hold your own against the juggernaut of haughty superiority and prickly charisma that is Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock. Elementary fans are quick to point out Miller's commitment to the role, but Cumberbatch doesn't even need that. Notice how no one feels the need to defend Cumberbatch's performance. You know why? Because he's the king of Baker Street on either side of the pond.

Winner: Martin Freeman's Watson


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(video) Sherlock’s Amanda Abbington on the “infuriating thing” about Martin Freeman (spoilers)

RADIO TIMES
Emma Daly
12:28 PM, 07 January 2014

After joining the cast of Sherlock as John Watson's wife Mary Morstan, Amanda Abbington admits there’s one “infuriating” thing about working with her real-life partner Martin Freeman.

He probably embarrasses her? Teases her? Tells everyone what she’s really like at home…? Oh, wait. It’s nothing like that at all. He’s just good at learning lines.

“Working with Martin is a joy, it really is," says Abbington. "The infuriating thing about Martin is he will get his sides, his script, and he’ll say ‘right, go over it with me’. He’ll read it once, he’ll read it twice and then he’ll say ‘test me’ and he’ll know his lines verbatim.

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Jude Law: My children keep me sane

STV ENTERTAINMENT
Bang 5 January 2014 00:15 GMT



Jude Law's children keep him sane.

The actor - who is currently starring on stage in Shakespeare's 'Henry V' in London - claims his four children; Rafferty, 17, Iris, 13 and Rudy, 11, with ex-wife Sadie Frost and four-year-old daughter Sophia Lee with model Samantha Burke, are ''in equal parts delighted and embarrassed'' by his job but also the force which keeps him grounded.

He told USA Today newspaper: ''[Acting] is what I get to do only in the hours I'm not [parenting], which is everything to me. My children keep me sane in what is a mad world - particularly mad if you choose to be an actor.''

'Henry V' runs until February, at which point 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' star is looking forward to being able to take some time off.

He added: ''I'll be unemployed as of then. It's not like I want to stop working - it's not like I can. You've got to pay the bills, like everyone else. [But] I'm not desperate. ''There's a certain physical demand to doing eight shows a week, and I haven't had a break in 18 months. By February I'll be quite ready for a break, and I'm going to take one.''

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Martin Freeman Wants to Keep Going with Sherlock Beyond Season Three (411 MANIA)

Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 05.03.2013

He loves doing it...

Martin Freeman may be making the transition toward film like his Sherlock co-star Benedict Cumberbatch, but he doesn't want to leave the series behind either. Freeman, who is currently filming season three of the series with Cumberbatch, told Empire that he would like to keep going beyond a fourth season.

"I believe in doing things for as long as people love them, and all I can say is that I really love the show," he said. "I feel very loyal to it and I like doing it… for as long as they want to do it and as long as we all want to do it....I don't know if I'll be doing it at the age of 90 but for the foreseeable I'm a huge fan of the show."

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BBC's Sherlock voted top TV show of 2012 Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective wins Radio Times poll (GUARDIAN)

Caroline Davies and agency
The Guardian, Thursday 27 December 2012

The sleuth drama Sherlock, a modern-day version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's crime-solving stories, has been voted the top TV show of 2012 in a Radio Times poll of writers and critics.

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, the BBC1 series beat the US Emmy and Golden Globe winning thriller Homeland, shown on Channel 4, into second place.

The Olympics comedy Twenty Twelve, the BBC2 mockumentary following a fictitious team behind the Games and starring Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes, was voted third.

Armando Iannucci's political satire The Thick of It, another BBC2 series, was placed fourth in the TV Top 10.

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Martin Freeman talks to Digital Spy about John Watson's reaction to seeing Sherlock Holmes alive again.

http://www.digitalspy.com/video/v2035167955001/martin-freeman-on-sherlock-series-3.html?_tmc=kTxQ6efiELEExN2w0blsQxgj--SmHnnOKiVBEAn6Zyk


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Sherlock: Martin Freeman almost had to turn down Hobbit role due to filming as Watson! November 19th, 2012 by Anna Howell. (UNREALITY TV)

Whilst the entire word agrees that there could be no one more suited to play the lead role of Bilbo Baggins in the new blockbuster movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Sherlock star, Martin Freeman almost had to turn down the job, the Sun newspaper reports!

Freeman, who signed up for the third series of Sherlock earlier this month, almost lost the lead role of the infamous Bilbo Baggins due to his Sherlock contractual obligations with the BBC to play Dr Watson in the last series.


The Lord Of The Rings director, Peter Jackson, had hand-picked Freeman to play Baggins in the next Tolkien blockbuster, much to the former Office stars delight, but his joy soon turned to despair when his agent told him that he was going to have to pass up the opportunity.
Freeman revealed: “I had a call from my agent and he said ‘I’m sorry, we’re going to have to let (The Hobbit) go.’ I was gutted.”

However, to accommodate Freeman's Sherlock commitments, Jackson halted filming of the epic trilogy in New Zealand for six whole months until Freeman, and his co-star Benedict Cumberbatch, had finished filming Sherlock.

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Benedict Cumberbatch: Sherlock's 'Death' - Revelation In Series Three Will Be 'Worth The Wait' Says Writer Mark Gatiss (THE HUFFINGTON POST)

Sherlock's 'Death' - Revelation In Series Three Will Be 'Worth The Wait' Says Writer Mark Gatiss The Huffington Post UK | By Caroline Frost

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQnMOq1iQaA&feature=player_embedded

Sherlock's co-writer Mark Gatiss has revealed that fans will not be disappointed by the revelations of how the eccentric detective managed to fake his own death in the last series. Gatiss, who shares writing duties with Steven Moffat, told The Guardian: "It'll be worth the wait," and pondered the various theories presented to him by fans.

Viewers last saw Holmes, played by Benedict Cumberbatch apparently jump to his death from the roof of a high-rise building at the end of the second series, much to the shock of his sidekick Watson (Martin Freeman), only to re-emerge in the shadows of the graveyard where Watson was grieving over his new grave.


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