Sherlock has been testing the patience of its fans over the past two years and counting, but season 4 looks like it will be well worth the wait. The first teaser hit the internet today and showed signs of a dark and dangerous mystery — one that possibly involves a villain thought to be dead.
Stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman return as the crime-solving duo of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. As always, it is unclear what they are up against: “Something’s coming,” teases the video. “Maybe it’s Moriarty, maybe it’s not.”
Moriarty (played by Andrew Scott) does appear briefly in the teaser, but since he is supposed to be dead, it is hard to say what role he will play in the upcoming season. At least one villainous role is reportedly being filled by actor Toby Jones; he certainly has the madman laugh down pat in the preview.
No matter who is stirring up trouble next in the world of Sherlock, they’re doing a good job of it. The teaser is an intense one, featuring explosions, helicopters, and what looks like a car chase. “It’s not a game,” we’re told. Clearly not.
With so much up in the air, there is only one question we can answer after watching the video: “Did you miss me?” The series has definitely been missed; by the time season 4 premieres, it will have been a year since the most recent special, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, and three years since the conclusion of season 3.
Season 4 is clearly going to be a big one, and it should be one to savor. Co-creator Steven Moffat recently revealed the possibility that the upcoming season could be the last.
Sherlock season 4 is set to premiere in 2017.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?