Moffat: 'Sherlock learns to be hero'

Steven Moffat has revealed that Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes will eventually learn how to be a hero.

BBC One's modern-day adaptation portrays the detective as a spiteful and obsessive man with a lack of emotion, unlike The Doctor from Doctor Who, a part also written for by Moffat.

Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Moffat said: "As the episodes of Sherlock go on he becomes a better man. He learns to be a hero."

He later joked: "Sherlock's not very nice, whereas The Doctor's nice, kind, passionate. They'd probably deck each other."

Sherlock was yesterday recommissioned for three more stories, airing next year following the success of 'A Study In Pink', 'The Blind Banker' and 'The Great Game'.