Benedict Cumberbatch returns for new Sherlock series: Watch the trailer

A trailer for Sherlock’s highly-anticipated third series has been unveiled.

The short teaser, which aired on BBC One tonight (December 8), focuses on Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) making a grand re-entry into the lives of brother Mycroft (Mark Gatiss) and crime-solving partner Watson (Martin Freeman).

Sherlock led all of his friends and family to believe that he had died in his final showdown with arch-enemy Jim Moriarty (Andrew Scott) in the series two finale ‘The Reichenbach Fall’.

Sherlock: Series 3 Launch Trailer

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The newly-released trailer reveals that the third series picks up two years after the events of Sherlock’s hoax.

Sherlock returns with ‘The Empty Hearse’ written by Mark Gatiss, followed by Stephen Thompson’s ‘The Sign of Three’.

The final adventure will be ‘His Last Vow’, written by Steven Moffat.

Sherlock will return for a third series on January 1, 2014 at 9pm on BBC One. The programme airs on PBS in the US from January 19.

A special mini-episode of Sherlock, titled ‘Many Happy Returns’, will also debut on Christmas Day via the BBC’s interactive Red Button service.

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