Last month , Martin Freeman said that making Sherlock for the BBC was n’t enjoyable anymore , in large part due to the fans . Apparently , Benedict Cumberbatch , the show ’s eponymic investigator , think otherwise .

An consultation withThe Telegraph , that ran last month , summon Freeman , who played Watson on four seasons of the show , as saying that he was fine with not doing a 5th season of the BBC programme due to its overzealous fanbase .

“ Being in that show , it is a mini - Beatles thing , ” Freeman said . “ hoi polloi ’s expectations , some of it ’s not fun anymore . It ’s not a thing to be enjoy , it ’s a thing of : ‘ You better f — ing do this , otherwise , you ’re a c—. ’ That ’s not fun any longer . ”

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

Now , in his own interview with The Telegraph , Cumberbatch has some strong Scripture regarding his co - star ’s position , saying : “ It ’s pretty silly if that ’s all it occupy to let you not want to take a clutch of your reality . What , because of anticipation ? I do n’t experience . I do n’t needs agree with that … There ’s a level of obsession where [ the franchise ] becomes [ the lover ’ ] even though we ’re the ones name it . But I just do n’t feel affected by that in the same manner , I have to say . ”

The debate about how fans shape the production of a show is a hot one , since the internet has made Divine so accessible and enabled the fervor of fans to sometimes change by reversal toxic , terminate up in harassment or hostility toward Godhead . in the first place this month , the Westworld Almighty provoke the same anxieties with a purported attempt to point off buff theory with a revelation of spoiler — that turn out to bea jumbo rickroll .

Everyone has their own reactions to stress , I suppose . At any rate , I would n’t reckon on a 5th serial publication of Sherlock any time soon .

William Duplessie

[ The Telegraph , viaEntertainment Weekly ]

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