Benedict Cumberbatch and Mark Gatiss are back as Sherlock and Mycroft as 'intercepted transmission' hints that a new game is on...

Along with the usual sarcastic brotherly badinage, Mycroft tells Sherlock that "certain cells of the network have gone rather quiet... We are simply short of minds – no amount of quiet recruitment can compensate for our sheer dearth of numbers – we shall have to recruit... publicly..."

"Recruit... real people?" asks Sherlock, aghast. "Mycroft, you know you can't trust them, they're into all sorts of strange things – high protein yoghurts, photographs of food, voting."

"Yes, but at least they're replaceable," says Mycroft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN7IpA-65sw

Exactly what this secret mission might entail remains to be scene but we suspect it has something to do with another duo, a certain Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, and a video message they posted recently announcing a new Sherlock adventure to celebrate Sherlock Holmes Day (today, 22nd May).

The pair are at pains to point out that it's "not a new episode" of Sherlock, "and not a new series, and not a film" but it is "an actual new adventure – a proper one, involving the people that you'd expect to be involved in a Sherlock adventure..."

And, quite possibly, you.

Watch the message below for further details, then head over to www.thegameisnow.com to register your interest.

The game is on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=49&v=fS7pVzMAwRM

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