Sherlock fans to get a New Year’s Day treat at the cinema

At its PBS debut, “Sherlock: The Abominable Bride” will be available online at pbs.org/masterpiece and it will repeat at 10 p.m. January 10.

Titled “The Abominable Bride”, PBS announced on their Twitter account the release of the “Sherlock” one-off. The new trailer is essentially the same as the last one, save for the announcement of the release date and the title of the one-shot episode.

A new trailer for the series showed the duo taking on their latest spooky mystery and quarreling over the detective’s iconic deerstalker cap in a very foggy London. “What a life those gentlemen lead”, says Mrs. Hudson.

It was also announced Saturday that “Sherlock’s” fourth season will begin production in the spring, with creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss now writing the new episodes. Moffat said that they will not explain what Holmes and Watson are doing in the Victorian times as they never explained what they were doing in the modern day. Now, we finally have a date for the Sherlock special, along with a timeline for when Season 4 will premiere.

“The first few days we were just so excited because we saw our show with Benedict and Martin in the proper gear and his extraordinary sideburns and you think ‘why didn’t we always do this?”

There are more reasons to psyched, however, aside from the upcoming Sherlock Christmas Special. “He operates like a Victorian gentleman”. While Sherlock takes place in the present, The Abominable Bride will take place in Victorian England, the era in which the original Sherlock Holmes stories were set. Worldwide called the highly anticipated big screen return of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock a “global cinema event”. “Unless we go mad and decide on setting it in the 1940s and have them fight Hitler”, Moffat joked at a Television Critics Association panel earlier this year.