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"Mark Gatiss has confirmed the title of Sherlock&amp;#039;s first episode of the upcoming third series. The co-creator and writer of the BBC adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&amp;#039;s detective stories - who also plays Mycroft Holmes - revealed that the episode will be named &amp;#039;The Empty Hearse&amp;#039;. Exclusive! Ep 1 will be called &amp;#039;The Empty Hearse&amp;#039;. The game is on! #Sherlock twitpic.com/ccbzh8 &amp;amp;mdash; Mark Gatiss (@Markgatiss) March 18, 2013 Gatiss also tweeted a photo of a clapperboard from the set of filming today (March 18), bearing the name of director Jeremy Lovering. The first episode will be based on the original story &amp;#039;The Adventure of the Empty House&amp;#039;, which introduces villain Sebastian Moran. Gatiss previously said of the first new episode: &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s certain things about &amp;#039;The Adventure of the Empty House&amp;#039; which feel set in stone because that&amp;#039;s how Sherlock comes back, but at the same time we feel free to invent and to introduce new stuff to it.&amp;quot;  Production recently commenced on three more Sherlock episodes, with the first read-through taking place in Cardiff last week (March 12). Benedict Cumberbatch recently confirmed that the drama will also return for a fourth series. Watch Benedict Cumberbatch and Mark Gatiss talk Sherlock with Digital Spy below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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