It's been almost 10 years since Sherlock season 4 came to end, but co-creator Steven Moffat is still holding out hope for a return - if he can convince his collaborators.
Speaking with the Half the Picture podcast, Moffat was asked about his experience of running both Doctor Who and Sherlock at the same time, which he called "extraordinary".
"I'd quite like to do it again, really," Moffat said. "I loved it. I absolutely loved it. It was an extraordinary time, because I was doing that exactly the same time as I did Doctor Who – the two things, literally exactly the same time.
"I went from a normal television life to being the guy, or one of the guys in charge of Doctor Who, and one of the guys in charge of Sherlock, going, 'What the hell happened there?' It was like being hit by a very nice bus.
"It was a maniac time. I never ever stopped working, or stopped worrying, or stopped fretting. I loved that show. I look at it now and I watch it, and I think all of it is excellent. I just think it’s really, really well made, beautifully acted, dare I say it, beautifully written show. I think it's cracking. And I’m massively, massively proud of it. And I miss it. I do miss it."
View oEmbed on the source websiteMoffat was then asked whether he would revisit the series, a modern adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, to which he said: "Yeah, if I can persuade everybody else."
"Of course I'd revisit it, yeah," he continued. "What can you ever say, that you’ve run out of Sherlock Holmes stories? There are 60 originals. We’ve done, what is it, 13 or 14? I can never remember.
"There’s loads more you could do with Sherlock. I’d quite like to revisit it simply because they would now - our two leads - be the normal age for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. We did younger ones. They’re normally presented as about 50 - which is not completely accurate to the books, but [Basil] Rathbone and [Nigel] Bruce are about 50, [Jeremy] Brett and his Watsons were about 50 when they did it.
"We were conscious that we were doing the beginning of the story, consciously doing younger ones. So I’d quite like to see them as their more middle-aged, settled versions."
Moffat added: "I don’t think it’s used up, actually."
Sherlock ran for 13 episodes and starred Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Holmes and Watson, as well as Andrew Scott as James Moriarty.
For his part, Freeman was asked by Radio Times earlier this year whether a Sherlock revival was on the cards, to which he simply said, "not right now".
Meanwhile, Moffat's co-creator on the series, Mark Gatiss, previously revealed that he believes the best episode of the series was written by Moffat - A Scandal in Belgravia.
Gatiss called the episode "fantastic" and "an explosion of that little story" from Conan Doyle, which "has all the beats".
"You know, Sherlock still disguises himself as a clergyman, he has to create an emergency in the house, Irene Adler beats him - literally - things like that," Gatiss explained.
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