Sherlock, Hobbit, Easter

From an Entertainment Weekly interview with Stephen Moffat, posted yesterday:

Steven Moffat: Sherlock is gearing up, we just started pre-production. They were putting up the Baker Street set at the studio this morning and in the next studio we were shooting Doctor Who.

Entertainment Weekly: You’re stealing Martin Freeman back from The Hobbit to play Watson again on the show?

Steven Moffat: No! No! No, no, no, no. We are lending Martin Freeman to The Hobbit, let’s get that the right way round.

Entertainment Weekly: Do you have a good relationship with Peter Jackson? I know you worked on the script of the Jackson-produced Adventures of Tintin.

Steven Moffat: I know him. I don’t know him that well. We’ve worked together. I’ve met him a few times. That’s what it amounts to. But that wasn’t the negotiation. Martin was very committed to being in Sherlock and wouldn’t have been in The Hobbit unless Sherlock could be accommodated. It’s not exactly a small deal these days, Sherlock.

Entertainment Weekly: I didn’t mean to imply that it was.

Steven Moffat: [Laughs] No, I’m just keeping the British end up, mate!

( In other news--here are some chocolate bunnies for everyone! )