a belated birthday present for kradical

[lagilman]

Classic BBC comedy Blackadder is set to return to television screens for the fifth time next year, years after the last series ended with the deaths of its lead characters.

Actor Rowan Atkinson will return as the acerbic Captain Edmund Blackadder in the eagerly-awaited episodes, which are due to be screened in early 2006.

Scriptwriter Richard Curtis plans to get around the inconvenience of having killed off his characters by revealing they'd actually survived the enemy fire which ended the First World War-set Blackadder Goes Forth, which first screened in 1989.

Tony Robinson, who played Blackadder's servant Baldrick, will also return.

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=140271610&p=y4xz7z3y6



in other news... have been mightily sick with the sore throat plague that seems to be going around. There is no other news.

Comments

[marinarusalka.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo, Blackadder!

Not that I'll be able to watch it, because I have no cable, but I'm going to be happy on principle.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Well, he also killed all the characters in the original series, and that didn't stop him from bringing them back time and again. While the article appears that the characters will continue directly from the World War I setting, it isn't entirely clear that the series will be set during the Great War.

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

There is no such thing as too much Blackadder. :)

Now, all we need is to drag Chris Barrie back for another Red Dwarf series (I'd even take another Brittas series, to be honest), and life will be perfect. :)

[lagilman]

While the article appears that the characters will continue directly from the World War I setting,

It does? I didn't get that implication at all, just that they're Not Quite Dead Yet from that particular incident.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, the first series ended with everybody dead. So did the second.

[agamisu.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! The BBC has a cunning plan!

[eeknight.livejournal.com]

Rejoice! the hiatus now is done
He's back, and with his faithful ranker!
Perhaps he'll play the Captain's son?
I'm sure he'll be a rotten wanker!

Blackadder, Blackadder, such a lot of fun
Blackadder, Blackadder, a new series is begun!

[hoosier-red.livejournal.com]

And there was much rejoicing (yeah!).

Although I like the idea I read somewhere about a Blackadder 5 set in the Swinging Sixties where Edmund managed a band and the drummer was an addled Keith Moon type named Bald Rick. That could've been fun...

Sore Throat

[greeneyedkzin.livejournal.com]

Hope you're feeling better.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo! More Blackadder!

Hope you recover from the throat plague Very Soon.

[vampry.livejournal.com]

Yay. Good to hear.