Steven Moffat says: “We’ve just started talking about Inside Man Season 2” and reiterates that he’ll “start writing ‘Sherlock’ tomorrow” when the stars return

Steven Moffat has said “we’ve just started talking about” a second season of the critically acclaimed BBC/Netflix drama Inner man and reiterated that he “will start writing sherlock tomorrow,” when stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman agree on their return.

While promoting his West End debut The unfriended on this morning’s BBC today program that sherlock Creator and alumni Doctor who Showrunner said, “We look at the enthusiastically nodded cards and apparently [Inside Man] did quite well.”

The Stanley Tucci and David Tennant starrer, which has been on Netflix in the US since Halloween, has received critical acclaim. Although overnight ratings were low, episodes of the show, in which Tucci plays a convicted murderer who solves crimes from a US prison, consolidated to more than 5 million after 28 days of catch-up.

Moffat said this reflected the changing nature of TV ratings.

“You get nothing [ratings] No more number next day, now you get an audience breakdown a month later,” he added, before saying talks had just begun about the potential for a second season produced by Sue Vertue’s Hartswood Films and by the BBC Studios are distributed.

Echoing earlier feelings about another season of the great BBC/Netflix adaptation sherlock Moffat said he would “start writing tomorrow” when stars Cumberbatch and Freeman return. sherlock Last aired five years ago, a fourth season that ended with Holmes confronting his evil sister and villain Jim Moriarty in an epic episode titled The last problem.

“They’re on their way to bigger and better things, but Martin and Benedict, ‘Please come back?’,” Moffat joked.

Other sherlock Star Moffat has worked with is Amanda Abbington, who plays the lead role The Universityd next to it Inside #9 Creator Reece Shearsmith.

This dark comedy directed by by Sherlock Mark Gatiss, which opens in the West End next week, follows an awkward British couple struggling to connect with their children, who are terrified by the arrival of an American guest.

“It’s about the extraordinary pain of raising difficult issues,” added Moffat. “How do you do that?”

The award-winning writer, who has never written a play, said there are “some constraints that are different” when writing plays versus television, but stressed that there are constraints in both cases.