Sherlock Season 3 and Bonus Christmas Mini Episode [HD]. {UpRoCk}

After the end of the final episode of the second series, Moffat and Gatiss both announced on Twitter that a third series had been commissioned at the same time as series two,[65] and a part of the resolution to "The Reichenbach Fall" was filmed concurrently with series two.[62] Gatiss confirmed that he would write the first episode of the third series, and that it would be "loosely based" on "The Adventure of the Empty House", in which Conan Doyle revealed that Holmes had faked his death.[66] Gatiss wanted to have Watson react very differently from the original character at the discovery of Holmes's return in series three; "I always found it a little unlikely that Dr Watson's only reaction was to faint for instance—as opposed to possibly a stream of terrible swear words," he said.[67]
Moffat tackles the fact that eventually Watson will be living apart from Holmes, though he was at first uncertain whether he will have Watson get married in this adaptation.[18] Moffat also wanted to use other villains and adversaries from Conan Doyle's original stories. Without revealing whether Moriarty also faked his own death at the end of series two, Moffat has suggested that Moriarty will not feature heavily in future series of Sherlock.[68][69]
Moffat and Gatiss have announced three words that allude to the content of the third series. These words were, "rat, wedding, bow". Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in August 2012, Moffat said that these words "may be misleading, are not titles, are only teases or possibly clues, but might be deliberately designed to get you into a lather".[70] The titles of the episodes were later revealed as "The Empty Hearse",[71] written by Gatiss, "The Sign of Three",[72] written by Thompson, and "His Last Vow", written by Moffat.[73][74] On 29 July 2013, producer Sue Vertue announced via her Twitter page that Lars Mikkelsen would appear in series 3 as the villain Charles Augustus Magnussen.