Mark Gatiss: Sherlock And Doctor Who Crossover will Happen ‘Over my Dead Body’

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Brace yourself fandom; basically it’s not happening.

Sherlock co-creator, writer and actor Mark Gatiss has dismissed any suggestion that one day, Peter Capaldi’s Doctor and Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock will team up.

Spreading a little Christmas misery, Gatiss told Entertainment Weekly that any ‘WhoLock’ crossover would happen ‘over my dead body’.

“I’m not being horrible but I just don’t see the point,” he said.

While his fellow writer and creator Steven Moffat has largely been in favour of a cross galaxy crossover, saying that it would be a ‘laugh’.

“I work with boring people on both shows,” joked Moffat during an interview with EW at Comic-Con this year. “I’d do it, ‘cause it’d be funny. It’d just be a laugh. But the rest of them, frankly, the grownups — ‘No, you can have too much sugar.’”

Gatiss remains resolute; the two programmes will never meet and it’s for a very specific reason.

“First of all, they are entirely different shows. But I think there’d be so much excitement among certain members of the fan community followed by massive disappointment that it wasn’t the version they had in their heads.

“And, just personally, I’ve never been [a] fan of these kind of mash-ups.”

So there, they’ll be no potential credibility-shedding banana skin for both shows (not to mention the impact time travel would have Sherlock’s canny deductions) but as long as there are creative fans who do want the pair to solve a universe hopping mystery, there will be outstanding creative work wowing both sets of fans and perhaps even melting the heart of one of the co-creators…

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride airs New Year’s Day on BBC One at 9pm and The Husbands of River Song airs Christmas Day on BBC One at 5.15pm.

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