“We do have the next Sherlock announced, that is coming up about a year from now,” PBS President Paula Kerger told Zap2It (opens in new tab). “As you know, Benedict has gotten to be somewhat popular since we began our work with him, and he very much wants to continue with Sherlock. As you know, they are produced almost like films and we’re hoping the next one will be about a year from now.”

The good news is that if you didn’t like the Victorian-turned-Inception episode – which caused Twitter to become Sherlock-flavoured Marmite – then this enforced wait time for season 4 might be healthy for some distance.

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“I think part of the reason why Columbo has been so popular and continues to endure is that there’s never really been another detective show quite like it.” Whitta said of the long-running series. “Even today, if we were to bring Columbo back in that format, it’d still be unlike anything that’s been seen before or since.”

While there’s been plenty of speculation in the past about whether the mac-clad detective would get a silver screen debut, Gary Whitta maintains this is a detective drama for the small screen.

“Some people thought we were trying to do a feature film of Columbo. I don’t think that’s the right home for it. I think Columbo belongs on TV, an event series like the BBC Sherlock. A limited run of episodes, maybe four or five cases at most, 90 minutes.”

Mark Ruffalo (aka The Hulk) has already come out and said he’d love to play the TV detective in a reboot, but he isn’t the only big name star Whitta’s been dreaming about.

“If you look at the great guest stars that they had back in the day they were some of the biggest stars of American film, television and music in the ’70s and ’80s. If you were to do them now, you can imagine the big stars of today lining up – whether it be George Clooney or Meryl Streep or whoever.

“It’d be delicious to come on and chew up the scenery as some arrogant murderer who thinks they’re smarter than Columbo, and then get nailed at the end. I think actors would look on that as a tremendously fun thing to do!”

With a potential a-list line-up like this, who wouldn’t want to see the return of Columbo? We’ll keep our fingers-crossed.

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