‘Sherlock’ Season 5 Air Date, Spoilers: ‘Don’t Hold Your Breath’ Benedict Cumberbatch Says, Show Never Coming Back?

“Sherlock” Season 5 is not coming back any time soon and there is no guarantee that it is coming back, ever. This would appear to be the case if the most recent insight into the show’s status via star Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock Holmes) is to be believed. It would seem that it would take a miracle to bring this series back.

Updates with regards to “Sherlock” Season 5 have been far and few in between since the fourth season of the show ended. Every time that the actors or the showrunners are asked about it, the answer is simply that they haven’t really discussed it. In a recent interview with The Daily News, for example, Benedict Cumberbatch smashed any hopes by fans that the show is coming back in the near future.

“No time soon. Don’t hold your breath, but you never say never,” the actor said. “But no time soon. Never say never — that’s what we always say on that show — but we’re all busy getting a kick out of doing other things, and that’s not to say it’s reached its end. It just means not right now.”

The British actor is currently busy with his role in the upcoming “Doctor Strange 2” and the “Avengers 4” movies, so it’s only natural that he wouldn’t have had much time to work on “Sherlock” Season 5. The same goes for his co-star Martin Freeman who plays Dr. John Watson in the show. In fact, based on the last comments that “The Hobbit” star made regarding the possibility of the fifth season coming up, he didn’t seem too enthusiastic.

“People’s expectations, some of it’s not fun anymore,” Freeman had said all the way back in March.

As EpicStream pointed out, it isn’t as if Benedict Cumberbatch is not interested in the idea of a “Sherlock” Season 5. Considering that it is the show that put him on the map, he likely has a deep attachment to it. If it ever does end up being made, fans can expect it to come out around late 2020, at the soonest.