He also said it was hard to “get the words out” on the most recent season, having just played Julian Assange, who swallows his words. “Books are good,” he lectured Eaton.Ĭumberbatch acknowledged he “felt really sentimental about letting go” after doing the most recent season. “That makes me feel great,” Cumberbatch said proudly, adding it’s one of the advantages of keeping viewers waiting so long between seasons. And, he noted, he likes that his show has boosted Arthur Conan Doyle’s book sales tremendously.
What also means a lot to him, he said, are those fans who do not camp outside hotels in Pasadena with signs, but who sit down with their families to watch Sherlock – even those who grumble that they like the Jeremy Brett version better, he insisted generously. “So yeah, no, it means a lot to me - a hell of a lot to me,” he added quickly. That said, he says he feels an enormous sense of responsibility to the fans who he described as “by and large intelligent” and “some of them normal.” The actor obliged, saying his reaction to the mob outside was one of “guilt,” because he showed up so late he had to run past the fans who, he said, will have to “wait another three-odd hours” before he can make his appearance.
Discuss this, the critic instructed Cumberbatch. One TV critic in the crowd said he’d been coming to the press tour for ages and can’t remember ever seeing rabid fans camped outside the Pasadena hotel where the clambake is staged, holding love-letter signs, like they did for Cumberbatch today. Masterpiece chief Rebecca Eaton asked PBS chief Paula Kerger to commit to taking as many seasons as Cumberbatch thought he could handle. Someone with him onstage noted BBC reportedly has said they’ll continue making them until Cumberbatch gets too famous and refuses. “Why is it always me,” Cuberbatch complained/simpered. Star Benedict Cumberbatch ducked a question as to how many more three-episode seasons of Sherlock he thinks he can handle while appearing this afternoon at the TCA Winter TV Press Tour. Sherlock’s move also boosted Downton Abbey last night - the drawing-room drama’s third episode of its fourth season reached an average audience of 8.4 million, up compared to the second episode’s audience of 7.9 million. That’s compared to the 3.2 million who’d watched the Season 2 launch. Last night’s third-season debut clocked an average audience of nearly 4 million viewers - the franchise’s biggest audience yet, according to Masterpiece exec producer Rebecca Eaton. UPDATED WITH TCA PANEL, 4:24 PM: Moving Sherlock has paid off for PBS.
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