Hi Steph, I hope you have a lovely day :) did you see the news that apparently S5 has been announced?? do you know if it's true?? should I freak out? :D
Okay so this is going to give me an opportunity to finally get this off my chest, just know that I am NOT upset or angry at you, I’m upset and angry at the “journalists” who keep doing this shit every few months. So, as I keep saying and will always say:
It’s all clickbait. All of it.
I checked to make sure, and this was my first result. Look at the headline:
Notice the wording in this one… None of it is “BBC Confirmed” or “Moffat confirmed”. They’re using speculative words like “teasing”.
There is no official release date for a new series of Sherlock but we can expect the show to arrive in either 2022 or 2023.
This “journalist”, among many others, is literally just fucking trawling tumblr blogs and pulling information from people like our little corner here who have already done all the fucking work for them.
The second link I got brought me here, posted just before Dracula, and is LITERALLY just rehashing the shit they recycle every 6 months. Summary is: We don’t know, but please click and subscribe to our website for updates.
I’ve worked in the media, at 4 newspapers, for almost a decade. This shit is normal when it’s a slow news month and they need fluff pieces (which Jan and Feb usually are dead news wise when you want to ignore what’s going on in the world), they go through what gave them clicks this time last year, and assign some intern to just drudge up some “news” clickbait article that they can get some advertising dollars on. Sherlock still gets clicks, ergo, let’s BS an article.
And because they’re using words in the article that doesn’t confirm nor deny anything, and use words that are synonyms with “allegedly”, it’s all completely legal and not fake news. It’s ALL in the language of the article. Carefully read any article about S5 and NONE of them use words that are synonyms with “confirm” other than “so and so confirmed they want to do an S5″ and that’s where the sneaky bit comes in… notice “WANT TO DO” not “ARE DOING”. It’s all about grammar.
Literally this and other articles are just clickbait garbage that is all speculations of stuff we as a fandom have all made on all of our recent S5 posts. It’s only coming up BECAUSE we have been talking about it here on Tumblr and then that brings up the topic in Google search algorithms.
I find it rather interesting that, since I’ve been answering asks recently on my blog about S5, and after I and others replying to my posts are doing all the bloody leg work, that all of a sudden these “writers” are SUDDENLY just talking about Sherlock again. Gee what a coincidence :| Do your own research, “writers”, stop beating a dead horse with this clickbait crap and stop taking all our work.
Don’t give them the clicks. I’ll save you the trouble; everything discussed in all the google results are everything already talked about in all my S5 posts since Dec. 31/19:
Do you think we’ll ever get an S5 (Dec. 31/19)
Additional Sources to Gattiss’ Homoerotic Quote
Do I Think S5 is still a possibility?
If S5 Continued in the same vein as S4, should TJLC shippers continue to support the show?
Why are S5 Sherlock BBC discussions popping up again right now?
What do you think of the theory about Ben’s Hair growing out? (with links to projects of the actors)
Here’s Why The Hair is Growing Out (not my post)
Do you think it’s time to totally give up on S5?
Any chance they did a super secret episode? … I just want their confirmation, whether S5 is coming or not
If we’re not going to get a fifth season, then why is the show not cancelled yet?
Isn’t It Rude of Mofftiss to just not confirm?
Since Gatiss said he made the show homoerotic just to attract people, I can’t see the characters as I saw them before… How do you cope with that?
Am I the only one who doesn’t want an S5?
What are the chances that they did film a super secret episode?
Do you believe that Mofftiss are purposely confusing us to surprise us later?
“S5 Speculations” blog tag
“Secret Episode” blog tag
There ya go, saved you from giving them views, LOL. I suffer their stupidity so you don’t have to, LOL.
So the TL;DR answer to your question is: No. Don’t freak out. It’s not happening anytime soon.
They’re literally just taking advantage of Sherlock being still semi-relevant to make money in a slow news month. Until you hear it from Moffat, Gatiss, possibly BBC, Sue Vertue, Hartswood Studios, AND (not OR, AND) the actors themselves, don’t believe a damn thing. It’s not happening anytime soon, either, I feel. I’ve done a tonne of legwork already: Ben, Martin, Gatiss AND Moffat are ALL busy for the foreseeable future: Moffat and Gatiss are writing stage plays, and Ben and Martin both have busy IMDb schedules for the next 2 to 4 years. And they’re the only ones who matter (because let’s be real, without Ben, there’s no Sherlock), so… I’m sorry to be blunt and harsh, but sometimes we have to step back out of the bubble of Tumblr and look at reality for our own sanity.