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So I finally got a decent copy of this article on Sherlock 2 from GQ UK, January 2012. Below is a type up by me. Do tell if there’s any typos. And please link back to this post if reposting.

Sherlock - Five things you need to know about the dapper detective’s new series.

It’s the scariest Sherlock yet…

“There’s a big difference between the three episodes this year,” says co-creator Mark Gatiss, “and, of course, you can’t do Sherlock without admitting that people get killed. For me, The Hound Of The Baskervilles is one of the great horror stories that never quite delivers on its horror. So we [in a second episode ‘The Hounds Of Baskerville’, starring Russell Tovey] had a chance to go for it!”

…but also the closest to the original stories

“We’re taking elements of the books quite liberally this time,” says co-creator Steven Moffat. “It’s a magpie approach; another story may have a great idea that we’ll put in. But it’s quite overt; the short story ‘A Scandal In Bohemia’ becomes our ‘A Scandal In Belgravia’, the novel The Hound Of The Baskervilles becomes our ‘The Hounds Of Baskerville.’”

Sherlock gets a girlfriend!

Well, sort of. “It’s a non-love story,” says Moffat of “A Scandal In Belgravia”, where he meets Irene Adler (True Blood’s Lara Pulver). “But if one woman could claim him, it would be her. Not Sherlock in love, but Sherlock and love. In the stories, he’s not saying he doesn’t feel these things, but that he mustn’t feel them.”

And a love scene!

“Er, well,” squirms Pulver when quizzed about a possible Sherlock sex scene. “I would say there’s a lot of intimacy. And passion… A lot of chemistry…” Yes, yes, yes, but do you get down to it? “Well, it’s complex. Let’s say we leave a lot to the imagination. We leave it ambiguous.”

Sherlock will use more tech

“One of the things we established last year is that Sherlock is always at the cutting edge,” says Gatiss. “Why wouldn’t he be? He’s not a fogey. He needs to be across everything. He’s the person hovering over his computer getting a Kremlin tan.” SM

Doctor Who versus Sherlock

How similar are Sherlock and the Doctor? We ask the writer of both stylish super-geniuses, Steven Moffat.

“The Doctor is lovely and warm and cuddly and silly and very emotional - and values all the things Sherlock doesn’t.

They’re both in the tradition of the Edwardian adventurer. The nice thing they have in common is that intelligence is their secret power.

Sherlock is a bit of a b******.”

Sherlock returns to BBC One next month.