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"Sherlock&amp;#039;s Steven Moffat has insisted that he has no plans to end the show. Moffat and series co-creator Mark Gatiss confirmed last night (January 15) that the BBC detective drama will return for a third run. &amp;quot;We love doing this, this is brilliant fun so [we&amp;#039;ll keep going] as long as we can keep Benedict [Cumberbatch] and Martin [Freeman] coming back,&amp;quot; he told CultBox.   The writer added that he is keen to eventually explore the later lives of Sherlock (Cumberbatch) and John (Freeman). &amp;quot;I fondly imagine it&amp;#039;d be nice to stop it for a while and come back and see what they&amp;#039;re like in their 40s or 50s,&amp;quot; he suggested. &amp;quot;Because normally these two characters are portrayed in their 50s. &amp;quot;So we&amp;#039;re actually at the beginning. It might be interesting in a couple of decades when they come back and [we] see what they&amp;#039;re like.&amp;quot; Moffat previously told Digital Spy that future episodes of Sherlock might see John married and living apart from his partner Holmes. &amp;quot;He and Holmes don&amp;#039;t always live together and I think that&amp;#039;s become a lazy way of doing Sherlock Holmes - they always live together,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;They didn&amp;#039;t actually and why would they? Nobody flat-shares forever, so there&amp;#039;s loads of details we can get in there.&amp;quot; The second series of Sherlock concluded last night, pulling in 7.9m for BBC One. &amp;gt; Sherlock: &amp;#039;The Reichenbach Fall&amp;#039; recap Watch a clip from the Sherlock series two finale below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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