What To Expect From Sherlock’s Victorian Special, According To Steven Moffat

‘Think I’m a cute otter?’ Cumberbatch yelled mid-attack, as the audience cheered and laughed.

Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes [Photo from BBC One]And, although Sherlock himself was won over, Benedict Cumberbatch wonders how the special will go down with the legions of fans who can not wait for “The Abominable Bride” to hit not only their TV screens, but also local move theatres. Now, series producer and writer Steven Moffat spills more details on what to expect in “The Abominable Bride”.

Benedict Cumberbatch put his acting skills to the real test by doing his best otter impression on “The Graham Norton Show”.

Speaking on The Graham Norton Show, Benedict Cumberbatch confirmed that the classic setting will return as a “one-off”, but that the special, titled The Abominable Bride, will somehow still relate to the updated saga. “One of them you have to be able to speak Chinese to get”, he revealed. “And then I got the more detailed pitch and I thought, “OK, this is going to be great fun”, said Cumberbatch”. Given how the show has a way of instilling mind boggling plot twists, viewers can only speculate so much on what brought them to a time when the “Sherlock” stories were originally set. “It takes an actor with a lot of ability, like Benedict, to make that credible”. Meanwhile, Freeman’s concern was him donning a bushy mustache.

Norton joked, “You’re in it. You’re the star!”

Some fans are speculating that the special itself was placed in the Victorian era to show Holmes at his grandest, but also smoking his signature pipe as well as wearing his famous deerstalker hat.

The Sherlock special will air on the BBC and PBS on January 1, 2016.