--- title: Sherlock Season 4 Photo: Benedict Cumberbatch Martin description: Sherlock releases new teaser photo of season four featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. canonical: https://time.com/4474525/benedict-cumberbatch-martin-freeman-sherlock-season-4/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-31T17:52:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:05.180Z og:title: New Sherlock Photo Proves Sherlock and Watson Still a Thing og:description: The bromance continues og:url: https://time.com/4474525/benedict-cumberbatch-martin-freeman-sherlock-season-4/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Sherlock Photo Proves Sherlock and Watson Still a Thing twitter:description: The bromance continues twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman Prove the Bromance Continues With New _Sherlock_ Photo by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 31, 2016 5:52 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 31, 2016 5:52 PM UTC [_Sherlock_](http://time.com/4407897/benedict-cumberbatch-sherlock-dog-season-4-photo/) released a new picture featuring [Sherlock Holmes](http://time.com/4165328/sherlock-benedict-cumberbatch-steven-moffat/) (Benedict Cumberbatch) and John Watson (Martin Freeman) on Wednesday to tease its fourth season returning to PBS some time in 2017. In the shot, Holmes looks like he’s about to make an important discovery that Watson doesn’t quite follow. Watson’s hair seems to look extra silvery, presumably because he’s going grey thanks to his drug addicted bestie being such a handful. The show’s most recent [teaser trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj6c%5FnXsxW8) made it look like the upcoming season would be a lot like a horror movie filled with creepy noises, evil laughter and the assurance that “something’s coming.” If anything, this picture promises that the bromance will indeed continue after a long hiatus, and that Sherlock did not, as some viewers feared, replace him with a dog. The upcoming Sherlock “series”, “[absolutely could be](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/15/next-series-of-sherlock-could-be-last-bbc-shows-creator-warns/)” its last. See the photo below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4474525/benedict-cumberbatch-martin-freeman-sherlock-season-4/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4474525/benedict-cumberbatch-martin-freeman-sherlock-season-4/"},"headline":"Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman Prove the Bromance Continues With New Sherlock Photo","datePublished":"2016-08-31T17:52:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:05.180Z","description":"The bromance continues","url":"https://time.com/4474525/benedict-cumberbatch-martin-freeman-sherlock-season-4/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Sherlock"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4474525/benedict-cumberbatch-martin-freeman-sherlock-season-4/","name":"Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman Prove the Bromance Continues With New Sherlock Photo"}}]}] ```