Sherlock season 4 will be filmed in Morocco – can we look forward to topless Cumberbatch?

It’s elementary dear reader that when we hear news that Sherlock will be filming in Morocco our minds will tip into a fever of naked Benedict Cumberbatch imagining.

Well, maybe not entirely naked. We could cope with a jaunty deer-stalker.

A-hem.

Details about why the show is filming in Morocco, what the storyline is, and just how naked Benedict is going to get are being kept tightly under wraps, alas.

But what do we know about the eagerly anticipated fourth series?

Not that much, truth be told.

We know that filming began in Cardiff in April and that the first episode is said to be complete with the second well underway.

And the rest is pure speculation.

It’s thought that Tom Hiddleston may be joining the cast, possibly as Sherlock’s other brother Sherrinford.

We have mixed feelings about this as Sherrinford is not an Arthur Conan-Doyle creation but then we don’t recall smart phones and tube maps occurring all that often in the books so perhaps we’ll get over it. Especially if Tom is involved.

We’re also dying to know if Moriarty is alive or dead.

‘Of course he is dead, he blew his own brains out, no-one survives that,’ said Sherlock during The Abominable Bride.

But, without wanting to shake the source material stick again [shakes it hard anyway], Moriarty was thought to be dead when we fell over the Reichenbach Falls but he came back.

And it would be such a shame if we’d seen the last of evil Jim. And coming back as e.g. a virus in data would be… OK, better than nothing. But we’ll take a real flesh and blood return if you please.