[BBC Sherlock] No, series five has not yet been confirmed, this article is clickbait, let me explain

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Sherlock season 5 release date, cast, trailer, plot:...

this youtube post, from over one month ago, has the exact same text as the Express article

This text article has the same text from as early as March 2020

Likewise, this article centers on an interview from April 2019

"How many seasons does Sherlock have?"
S1: summer 2010
S2: January 2012
S3: January 2014
Special: January 2016
S4: January 2017

For a long time, they planned five seasons. An escape room including new actor video footage occurred in January 2019. Around the same time, a showrunner said maybe S5 content someday. So, new content has continued after S4.

TL;DR: Clickbait misleading articles about BBC Sherlock S5 circulated today, but past data shows that S4 was not the end of the show producing content.

The clickbait publishers saw everything else happening yesterday and shot their shot