Blackadder
British TV sitcom
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| December 2024 | Ben Elton definitively states that there will not be a fifth series of Blackadder, expressing little interest from the original creators except possibly Tony Robinson. |
| June 15 2023 | UKTV Gold broadcast the original Blackadder pilot episode as part of an 80-minute special hosted by Sir Tony Robinson, which included interviews with Ben Elton and Richard Curtis. |
| May 17 2023 | Royal Mail issued a special set of commemorative stamps celebrating the television series Blackadder. |
| March 2023 | Tony Robinson reprised his role as Baldrick in a Red Nose Day comedy sketch for the BBC, without Rowan Atkinson's involvement, indicating a brief nostalgic return of the Blackadder character. |
| March 17 2023 | Blackadder appeared in a special Red Nose Day sketch, reuniting the original cast for a charity comedy event supporting Comic Relief. |
| February 10 2023 | Release of 'Blackadder's Historical Record', a deluxe 12-disc LP collection pressed on gold-coloured vinyl by Demon Records, including a hand-signed print of Baldrick by Sir Tony Robinson. |
| October 19 2022 | Announcement made for the LP box set release of Blackadder soundtracks on vinyl for the first time. |
| 2020 | Stephen Fry reprised his role as Lord Melchett in a special Blackadder segment during The Big Night In, a joint Children in Need and Comic Relief charity event during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sketch featured Lord Melchett helping Prince William with Zoom schooling and discussing the Netflix series Tiger King, while also participating in the NHS clap. |
| December 2020 | Rowan Atkinson tells Radio Times that replicating the creative energy of the original Blackadder series 30 years later would be challenging. |
| October 2018 | Richard Curtis officially 'dashes hopes' of a fifth Blackadder series returning. |
| April 2017 | At the BFI & Radio Times Television Festival, Atkinson reveals a previously considered but unrealized series called 'Redadder', set in Russia in 1917 during the Russian Revolution, with Blackadder and Baldrick working for the Tsar, and Rik Mayall potentially playing Rasputin. |
| August 2015 | Tony Robinson suggests in an interview that a new Blackadder series is likely, mentioning he has spoken to most of the cast, with Hugh Laurie's high fee being the main obstacle. |
| 2012 | Theatre production 'CEO of Melchett, Melchett and Darling Inquiry' performed. |
| 2012 | Publication of 'The True History of the Black Adder' by J.F. Roberts, a comprehensive 420-page history of the Blackadder series, its characters, writers, and actors, including an unproduced Christmas special script. |
| November 28 2012 | Rowan Atkinson reprises the Blackadder role at the 'We are most amused' comedy gala for the Prince's Trust at the Royal Albert Hall, joined by Tony Robinson as Baldrick. The sketch involves Blackadder as a bank CEO facing an enquiry over the banking crisis. |
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