LONDON, April 7 — Season four of Sherlock has started filming, and new director Rachel Talalay has a wealth of experience to draw upon, with time spent on Doctor Who, Ally McBeal, and even classics in both childrens’ TV and horror.
Talalay got her break directing the sixth Nightmare on Elm Street film, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare.
Twenty-five years later, and Talalay’s skills have seen her chosen to direct the new season of Sherlock, the BBC’s seven-Emmy winning series whose creators, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, say is “a story about to reach its climax”.
Though “Freddy’s Dead” was slated by fans and critics alike, it nonetheless became the franchise’s biggest box office hit upon release in 1991.
Since then, Talalay has built up an impressive resumé in TV, with credits that range from British crime drama Touching Evil and fantasy horror Supernatural through to the high profile Ally McBeal, Doctor Who, and children’s shows such as Unfabulous and even an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, for which she won a Leo Award.
Helming the first of season four’s three episodes, Talalay becomes the first female director on “Sherlock.”
She previously worked with Moffat and Gatiss, the show’s co-creators, writers and executive producers, on The Wind in the Willows, in which Gatiss co-starred, and four episodes of Doctor Who, for which Moffat was writer and showrunner.
Filming began on April 6, the BBC announced, promising “laughter, tears, shocks, surprises and extraordinary cases”; the season is expected to air in 2017.
Talalay responded with a post to Twitter: “SuperWhoLock,” she wrote, having re-posted a fan trailer for “Sherlock” season 4 two days earlier.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman star as contemporary detective Sherlock Holmes and aide Dr. Watson respectively, with Gatiss as Sherlock’s brother Mycroft. — AFP-Relaxnews
