There’s a sometimes-forgotten part of Blackadder history: that the sitcom was on the chopping block after its peculiar, not-entirely-successful first series. As writers Richard Curtis and Ben Elton ...

Blackadder Season 4 is a British historical sitcom set during World War I, featuring the cunning and cynical Edmund Blackadder as a British Army officer. The series offers sharp satire and dark humor ...

Blackadder is officially set to make a comeback for first time in over 20 years for a Comic Relief 2023 special. Director Richard Curtis confirmed the news to Gary Davies on Radio 2 on Tuesday, he is ...

BBC hit sitcom Blackadder is celebrating 40 years this month and Tony Robinson is hosting a special documentary in commemoration. Blackadder: The Lost Pilot sees the Baldrick actor explore the show's ...

Without a cunning plan by the writers, Cold Feet’s middle-class management consultant Robert Bathurst might have found fame in Blackadder and no one would have heard of Tony Robinson’s dim-witted ...

Here’s a turnip for the books, Blackadder buffoon Baldrick can’t wait to read a story for Comic Relief. Although reading would be tough for Balders, the root veg loving character has, as ever, one of ...

Richard Curtis says creating four series of Blackadder was such hard work that a fifth would have finished him off. The team making the legendary BBC sitcom were all such perfectionists that each ...

The never-before-seen first episode of Blackadder is set to be finally aired on British television to mark the comedy series’s fortieth anniversary. The historical (and hysterically funny) show has ...

Tony Robinson (Baldrick) and Rowan Atkinson (Blackadder) in Blackadder Goes Forth. (BBC/Alamy) Classic sitcom Blackadder is set to make a return for the first time in more than 20 years as part of a ...

TV channel Gold will celebrate Blackadder's 40th anniversary in June with two new documentaries, Blackadder: The Lost Pilot and Blackadder: A Cunning Story. In Blackadder: The Lost Pilot Baldrick star ...

Blackadder was almost axed after its first season because the BBC feared it had not attracted enough viewers. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT The British sitcom, starring Rowan Atkinson, Tony ...

As part of this year’s 40th anniversary celebrations of Blackadder, the classic historical BBC comedy series, the pilot episode from 1982 aired for the first time in years on Gold. It’s been hitherto ...