YT and the Special!

Starting out with some bonus candy from SDCC 2014:  Benedict Cumberbatch on Sherlock Season 4, Doctor Strange, Penguins of Madagascar.  Published on Jul 25, 2014.

Christmas and Team SH Tweets.

And because we can't stop thinking about our Christmas gift coming from the BBC...

Here's a trailer that is mildly spoilery for the special, using Mark's text (in second Tweet).

Dearest @Markgatiss STOP Your telegram to Dr Watson has arrived STOP #Telegram221B pic.twitter.com/8qWYIdeeB5

— Sherlock (@Sherlock221B) December 16, 2015

My dear Watson. Stop. See you on the television and the kinema on New Year’s Day! Stop. Please don’t ever. Stop. #Telegram221b

— Mark Gatiss (@Markgatiss) December 16, 2015

Team Sherlock (!) and Dr. Strange.

Actually, to sum up -- this is all Twittery and links which includes the Moff's award [go, Steven!] via Louis Moffat, plus Mark's interview, and then it's all Ben:  Little Favour, Dr. Strange, Hollow Crown's Richard III.

ᒪIᖴETIᗰE ᗩᑕᕼIEᐯEᗰEᑎT ᗩᗯᗩᖇᗪ. ᔕO ᑭᖇOᑌᗪ pic.twitter.com/7EJ5ET0fF7

— Louis Moffat (@Curly_Moffat) October 24, 2015

Mark Gatiss is interviewed by Tor.com... and it's a lot of fun, trust me!

. @marvel's #DoctorStrange now filming at #Longcross Film Studios in Surrey, via @Screendaily #BenedictCumberbatch

— cumberbatchforum (@cumberbatchfrm) November 11, 2015

And there's also new promo pictures of Ben as Richard III out.  They must be on tumblr -- and certainly on Twitter! -- 'cause I'm not finding them via Google.  8(  Apparently the gif and the pics are clipped from the trailer for the BBC's upcoming show lineup.

Andrew's birthday; cons; VIDS; China!

Happy birthday to #Sherlock & #SPECTRE star Andrew Scott! Watch his BAFTA 60 Sec Challenge: https://t.co/LNRXv5fZUU pic.twitter.com/H0QKJPPeur

— BAFTA Guru (@BAFTAGuru) October 21, 2015

Remember how they had some big shindig back in April 2015?  I found some videos of the guys there for us all to enjoy.

There you go, have some early Halloween candy.  :b

Team Sherlock news... + Special.

The #Hobbit #Coins of #Sherlock’s #MartinFreeman and #BenedictCumberbatch http://t.co/kAHiNdwsZe #TheHobbit #LOTR pic.twitter.com/ylwiLcg0pC

— World Hobbit Project (@WorldHobbit) September 8, 2015

Some Team Sherlock news for you after the cut.  :D  And a teeny snippet about the upcoming 2015 Sherlock special ep too.

#TheHobbit <3 MT @Grabeelfan Quotes about #MartinFreeman #HappyBirthdayMartinFreeman pic.twitter.com/ElHj2Ua7s8

— Anne Zanoni (@ninja_CE) September 9, 2014

Belated happy birthday to Martin!

Happy Birthday to Martin Freeman! pic.twitter.com/o87qkt8MNT

— Sherlock (@Sherlock221B) September 8, 2015

Happy Birthday Martin Freeman! You've made the world a better, more interesting place by acting & by being yourself. #44ReasonsWhyWeLoveYou

— Red Runners (@Evening_Sue) September 8, 2015

Sorry to have missed this -- doing the post sooner, that is.  I didn't miss his birthday on Twitter, hence many RTs there; but then our Internet went down after supper...  oh well.

Cumberbatch update 2 via Tweets.

. @DailyMirror article on stunt doubles includes this pic of Benedict and @ZacharyQuinto from #startrek #intodarkness pic.twitter.com/NOBHCZZmm2

— cumberbatchforum (@cumberbatchfrm) June 9, 2015

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of, who do the things no one can imagine. RIP Alan Turing who died on this day in 1954

— cumberbatchforum (@cumberbatchfrm) June 7, 2015

Amazing! Congratulations! https://t.co/6xPUHYPaU1

— cumberbatchforum (@cumberbatchfrm) June 5, 2015

Cumberbatch update 1 via Tweets.

The Sun is reporting that Benedict Cumberbatch is to receive a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for 'services to drama' - *unconfirmed*

— cumberbatchforum (@cumberbatchfrm) June 11, 2015

. @heatworld's take on the rumour that Benedict Cumberbatch may appear on the honours list: http://t.co/3zv5ykrUC3

— cumberbatchforum (@cumberbatchfrm) June 11, 2015

Easter candy -- chocolate, honest!

There is a 6-foot sculpture in chocolate of Benedict, per Good Housekeeping.  I am not making this up!  Apparently it isn't an April Fools Day joke either...

Methinks someone thought they could outdo Pei's Cumbercupcakes.  Of course not.

Do you dare to take on Dave? #PenguinsMovie pic.twitter.com/fCFE7Sn0CM
— DreamWorks Animation (@DWAnimation) March 30, 2015

I finally saw Penglings!  Err... Penguins of Madagascar.  Twice.

Graham Moore; also Cumberbatched. ;)

That's a 2014 excerpt from a four-part set; here's the first of Standard Talks: BAFTA New York Part 1 of 4.  (In part 4, Ben gets very quiet and hard to hear.)


Benedict Cumberbatch Pens Letter for Funeral of 'Sherlock Holmes' Superfan at THR.

Benedict Cumberbatch: fanboy, photobomber, award-circuit rider at the LA Times.

Benedict Cumberbatch is for life not just for the Oscars at Radio Times.

More Oscar candy...

"I won. We all won." - Benedict Cumberbatch on missing out on #Oscars2015 best actor trophy http://t.co/c4rzR8ujOG pic.twitter.com/EWAcWusHpE
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) February 23, 2015

Digital Spy has a transcript of Ben's video here.

Benedict Cumberbatch, his Cumbercollective and awards season 2014/2015 in a nutshell #Oscars2015 pic.twitter.com/bBP9KaVX2V” Cute
— BENELOCK (@nicole5castle) February 25, 2015

EW has the backstory behind Graham Moore's acceptance speech for his TIG Oscar.

Fave Tweets (etc.) from Oscars 2015.

Best of luck tonight, #BenedictCumberbatch! You've already won the Oscar of our hearts. That sounded weird. But it's true.
— TrishB (@StormingTeacup) February 22, 2015

"A bit squishy on the carpet." - Benedict Cumberbatch https://t.co/JD2hD1fqDW
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 23, 2015

Throwback to last year when Benedict said he'd love to bring his mum #Oscars. This year he brought them all. http://t.co/TWuukNZzjO
— Cumberbuddy (@Cumberbuddy) February 22, 2015

TIG; 2015 Hamlet news; Oscars; online con!

. @ImitationGame to be released in the US on March 31 #BenedictCumberbatch #KeiraKnightley http://t.co/3rx2PaW4Nu
— cumberbatchforum (@cumberbatchfrm) February 18, 2015

A lovely interview. :) It’s a Benedict Cumberbatch Moment: The Oscar-Poised Rise of The Imitation Game Star in Vogue, from 21-Nov-2014.

Oscars and TIG; Rupert pics and Fargo; Ben's schedule??

Vids from yesterday: Ben visits Jimmy Kimmel (during Ben's honeymoon!) and talks about The Imitation Game, Alan Turing, and the UK petition (blog post) -- the petition itself is at Pardon49k.org.




For a brief change of pace, have some s3 pics of our Silver Fox on the side.  Moving from Sherlock to Fargo...

.@FargoFX wins Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television at the #PGAawards! Congrats! Commiserations to The Imitation Game and Sherlock
— US Sherlockians (@US_Sherlockians) January 25, 2015

Third Star...

Third Star!  At last, I finally got to see it 25-January-15.  Been waiting a long while for TS to be aired in my area.

Lovely movie.  There is sadness, but funnies too.

If you haven't seen it, you may want to skip the movie trailer at Digital Spy.  It has a few spoilers.  I only knew the famous quote, and it's a good one, but you may want to avoid that as well.  Or not.

Note that audience has more affection (and love) for Third Star than critics did; certainly this is true at Rotten Tomatoes, and most 'Batch fans are quite keen on Third Star.  Expect feels!

I really want to see Third Star again, without commercial breaks -- the station broke scenes in really bizarre places.

If you have seen the movie, Roger Ebert wrote a really good review -- very in-depth and with spoilers -- about Third Star and his own father.  Roger has several great pics.

Grab bag: petition, Martin, TIG, Ian, awards--

I told you everything leads back to Hawking.  ;b

Photoset: He was shooting The Imitation Game, and we were shooting The Theory of Everything around the same... http://t.co/s2D0Vd3ZQd
— ESRA (@EsraSherlocked) January 31, 2015

The tumblr link here.  :)

The @ADG800 awards take place in LA tonight: wishing lots of luck to Maria Djurkovic for @ImitationGame and @arwelwjones for #Sherlock
— cumberbatchforum (@cumberbatchfrm) January 31, 2015

And Sherlock s3 ep3: His Last Vow won the ACE Eddie award yesterday.

TIG nominations; SH fan vid.

I can't keep up.  This is award season.  Just keep an eye out, I know I've missed things.  Ben got nominated for Oscars -- his first! -- for playing Alan Turing.

(Amusingly, the Guardian thinks Ben needs his own category in Alternate Oscars -- at the link's very end.)

The Imitation Game trailer at the Oscars' site is one I haven't seen yet, and it's really good!  TIG's got 8 Oscar nominations... pretty frickin' amazing.  Everyone I talk to recommends TIG.  8)

Fingers crossed for TIG, Ben, and Kiera to sweep the Oscars next month.

.@latimes recognizes the genius of @MrGrahamMoore's script for The #ImitationGame. pic.twitter.com/2XByXMv2kA
— The Imitation Game (@ImitationGame) January 23, 2015

Martin and Ben: BBC2 and Globes.

Aside from filming Sherlock, another place to find Martin this month:

Lords and ladies and TV viewers. Look at this @bbc2 its on Tuesday 20th Jan at 9pm. #theeichmannshow RT and watch x pic.twitter.com/EiTFfXCc88
— Paul Andrew Williams (@SteelMillPaul) January 8, 2015

Hawking this weekend!

A brief interruption to your scheduled programming... the BBC's Hawking will air this Saturday, 10-Jan-15, on the Discovery Channel at 10pm.  In the States and also the UK, it looks like.

Ben starred in this 2004 biopic, and it's rather hard to get hold of.

Today is also Stephen Hawking's 73rd birthday.

Happy Birthday Stephen Hawking! #DontThrowItAway pic.twitter.com/8oyunNLwmO
— Hiddles Tigress (@hiddlestigress) January 9, 2015

This week: Filming SH Spesh.

Fandom may be holding its collective breath.

Tuesday, 6-Jan-2015, Team Sherlock will begin filming the Sherlock special.

Not much have news on this, barring the brief piece at KPopStarz yesterday.  I suspect tumblr and Twitter have lots of speculation, however.

#BenedictCumberbatch talking #ShSpesh and @goldenglobes @PSFilmFest pic.twitter.com/kzGrGGLCNg
— CumberBEES (@Cumberbees1) January 4, 2015

Sue Vertue did Tweet about the November readthrough; see Hypable for that and the top hats.  :D

Arwel Tweeted too, but about something else involving the SH Spesh.

There's a few changes over there! #ShSpesh pic.twitter.com/JPtZE5yAtq
— Arwel Wyn Jones (@arwelwjones) November 7, 2014

Does it count as s4 setlock?  A tease?  You decide.


Cumberbatched moments:  USA Today's article on last night in Palm Springs, where The Imitation Game won the ensemble award.  Ben signing autographs on the red carpet via tumblr.

The awards season kicks off in earnest this week with #EEBAFTAS noms on Friday and @goldenglobes ceremony on Sunday #BenedictCumberbatch
— cumberbatchforum (@cumberbatchfrm) January 4, 2015