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"Steven Moffat has promised that Sherlock fans will not have &amp;quot;that long&amp;quot; to wait for a third series. The writer told the Radio Times that he plans to &amp;quot;starve&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;tease&amp;quot; viewers in the run-up to future episodes. &amp;quot;Get used to a bit of starvation,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re making movies - those six films we&amp;#039;ve made could go in the cinema. You can&amp;#039;t factory produce that - it&amp;#039;s a different kind of show.  &amp;quot;So, when we&amp;#039;re good and ready - it won&amp;#039;t be that long - but when we&amp;#039;re ready, you&amp;#039;ll get the follow-up.&amp;quot; Moffat also confirmed that a third series of Sherlock was commissioned alongside the second run back in 2010. &amp;quot;We knew we had this cliffhanger coming, we knew that we were doing &amp;#039;The Final Problem&amp;#039;, and we did not want people to know that [Holmes] survived,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;We wanted to wind the audience up so that the final shot [of series two] would have the impact that it evidently did.  &amp;quot;We were commissioned for series two and series three at the same time, but we decided to keep it under wraps that day that series three was in the bag.&amp;quot; The second series of Sherlock concluded on Sunday night, pulling in 7.9m for BBC One. &amp;gt; Steven Moffat: &amp;#039;Sherlock fans have missed big clue&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Elementary: CBS develops &amp;#039;modern-day Sherlock Holmes&amp;#039; pilot Watch a clip from the Sherlock series two finale below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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