Benedict is back on the BBC… but in what form? (Picture: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters)

As if one of them at a time wasn’t good enough, now we’re getting excited for the prospect of getting Benedict Cumberbatch and Peter Capaldi IN THE SAME SHOW. Be still our beating hearts.

The prospect of the two shows coming together has been doing the rounds for a while, but BBC One sparked whispers of it actually happening in a Facebook post this week.

Along with two photos of Benedict, the channel posted the message ‘Benedict Cumberbatch filming something special for BBC One and BBC Two. More details soon…’

So we know it’s ‘something special’, and whatever it is will be for two channels. So it’s something pretty big, no?




On the subject of said crossover, Steven Moffatt said in a recent Q&A that he ‘would do it’ but that his ‘killjoy’ colleagues Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue don’t want it to happen. He added that ‘it’s probably not going to happen’.

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And we hate to say that, in this case, it looks like this isn’t it. For a start, Benedict’s hair looks distinctly lacking in Sherlock curls in the BBC’s Facebook photos.

And, if you look really, really hard at the photos (which we did, for the purpose of research you understand) his trademark Sherlock coat is also nowhere to be seen. Boo hiss.

We can live in hope, folks…