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Old Vic’s starring role in Sherlock trailer

The latest trailer for the highly anticipated Christmas special of BBC’s “Sherlock” has been released and after revealing what fans already know, there’s more than the Victorian era that is worth looking forward to.

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The Christmas special will be taking the show back to how Arthur Conan Doyle first envisaged it in the Victorian era, complete with the pipe and deer stalker hat.

In a new trailer released to promote the episode, which will appear on PBS in the United States of America, we see what the results of this Victorian episode looks like, and it’s likely that viewers will see this and exclaim “elementary, my dear Watson!” The small trailer sees lead actors Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock, Martin Freeman as John Watson and Amanda Abinggton who plays the role of Mary Morstan.

A POIGNANT, humorous and atmospheric Sherlock Holmes tale is tracking is way to Weymouth Pavilion in plenty of time for the festive season.

It opens with Holmes, intoning sombrely: “The stage is set, the curtain rises, we are ready to begin”.

“Sherlock” season 4 proper, which will continue the contemporary setting of the series, is expected to begin production in mid-2016 and air by 2017.

“We discovered there was a few precedent for it”, the showrunner explained at the show’s 2015 San Diego Comic-Con panel this summer, according to IGN.

As we previously showed you a number of weeks ago, the stars are definitely embracing the time period in regards to fashion, facial hair and more! “I think it’s really terrific”, Moffat added.

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