Lovering’s online CV includes “Director, one film of season 3”.

The director’s previous work includes episodes of Spooks and Teachers. He was also Second Unit Director on Simon Pegg’s Hot Fuzz.

> Find out all the details on Series 3 so far in our summary.

Co-creator Steven Moffat teased the resolution to Series 2’s finale last year: “We know what we’re doing. If Sherlock Holmes is going to fake his own death, it better be the best faked death of all time. I think it’s pretty good.”

Filming on the third series is set to begin this spring.

[Thanks to @Ruther2.]

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> Buy the Series 1-2 boxset on Amazon.

> Buy the BBC’s official book, Sherlock: The Casebook, on Amazon.

Watch a clip from The Hounds of Baskerville…