Mark Gatiss records a special Sherlock video as Mycroft to mark the 10th anniversary

“It has come to my attention that it is ten years since a highly fictionalised account of my brother’s adventures was brought to the screen. This was a mistake,” Gatiss says (in character) during the video, which was created for Chinese streaming website Youku and also features references to Mycroft’s time in socially-distant lockdown (aka, “paradise”).

“Detection is or should be an exact science, and should be treated with the same cold and unemotional manner,” he continued.

“These programmes have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which has rather the same effect as if one were to work a love story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid. However, in their defence, the one who plays me is very handsome.”

“Some of us have re-read Proust during lockdown, or learnt another three languages, but if you choose to vegetate on the sofa watching the television, that is entirely your concern,” he concluded, before instructing viewers to “go away,” and you can watch the whole clip above now.

And this new skit isn’t the only way Gatiss and Moffat are marking the special anniversary, with Gatiss and producer Sue Vertue revealing that the writing duo will be answering fan questions about Sherlock in a special video later in the day.

In other words, as Gatiss himself puts it, the Game is On again. Though we do wonder how many of the questions will just be “season five” followed by hundreds of question marks…