I heard it would be the 1960's, but I like that idea of the 1980's.
did the speical not get that awful laugher track add to the bbc?
Yes it did, back on Easter Sunday 2002 when it first aired on BBC1. Not sure if many people saw it due to the rescheduling that Easter though.
The 1960s rumour about the Blackadder Five with Bald Rick has been around for ages and is always dug up when news of a Blackadder reunion is mentioned. I very much doubt a new one would be in the works because it ended so well. Stephen Fry said it would be unwise to do one after it went out on a high. They've had several ideas: Star Adder would be set in the future (proposed by Rowan Atkinson), but some of this was used in the far future bit in Blackadder's Christmas Carol; Bat Adder was to be a Batman spoof (proposed by John Lloyd), which saw light as Spider-Plant Man for Comic Relief 2007; others ideas have focused on a World War II POW camp, a Colditz setting or the Russian Revolution.
It's a shame that Back & Forth wasn't as good as the others, but that's because it suffered from being the centrepiece for the Millennium Dome and having Sky and Tesco as sponsors. If they had made it a full-blown movie, complete with a better plot, more guest stars and a bigger budget, it could've been the best sitcom spin-off movie ever.
The 1960s rumour about the Blackadder Five with Bald Rick has been around for ages and is always dug up when news of a Blackadder reunion is mentioned. I very much doubt a new one would be in the works because it ended so well. Stephen Fry said it would be unwise to do one after it went out on a high. They've had several ideas: Star Adder would be set in the future (proposed by Rowan Atkinson), but some of this was used in the far future bit in Blackadder's Christmas Carol; Bat Adder was to be a Batman spoof (proposed by John Lloyd), which saw light as Spider-Plant Man for Comic Relief 2007; others ideas have focused on a World War II POW camp, a Colditz setting or the Russian Revolution.
I think every one of those ideas sounds awful. If that's the best they can think up, I'm even more certain a new episode/series would be a disaster.
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It's a shame that Back & Forth wasn't as good as the others, but that's because it suffered from being the centrepiece for the Millennium Dome and having Sky and Tesco as sponsors. If they had made it a full-blown movie, complete with a better plot, more guest stars and a bigger budget, it could've been the best sitcom spin-off movie ever.
Yes, had it been completely different, it could have been brilliant.
Didn't Sky One play 'Back and Forth' first? Or was it my imagination.
Anyways it did suffer purely because it was as has been said mainly made for the Millenium Dome, hence the several different periods and characters. I thought it was good though. Though certainly not the standard of the Blackadder Series, still good.
Should another one be made? In my opinion no. Mainly because it's been proven that once writers get older they become softer and end up writing in a very middle of the road sitcom-ey way. Only Fools and Horses is a classic example of this. The three specials made after the millionaire specials were just weak in my view and even had some stereotypical sitcom characters in it like the smartass Damien. Something John Sullivan would never have written back in the 80s episodes.
Didn't Sky One play 'Back and Forth' first? Or was it my imagination.
That's right. IIRC, Sky had a hand in making it.
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Anyways it did suffer purely because it was as has been said mainly made for the Millenium Dome, hence the several different periods and characters.
But they had different periods and characters for Blackadder's Christmas Carol which was fab. I don't see why the Millennium Dome connection would have made it less funny.
Rowan Atkinson has refused to take part in a reunion show.
...it's going to be a standard clip show interspersed with talking heads, rather than a new episode.
Those two elements go hand-in-hand really. Mr Atkinson appearing "as himself" (e.g. an interview) on-camera is "rarer than rocking-horse sh*t". If it had just been an episode (in-character only) I expect he'd have probably been more keen. It was
never
gonna be very likely that he'd partake in a 'Allo 'Allo-style reunion show.
I don't really understand why though. I can understand Mr Atkinson not wanting to give a Parkinson (etc) type interview, as he presumably wants to keep his
private
life, er, private. But, talking about Blackadder isn't the same as talking about his own family or childhood or whatever, so I do find it a little bemusing that he's quite as interview-resistant as he is.
I can understand Mr Atkinson not wanting to give a Parkinson (etc) type interview, as he presumably wants to keep his
private
life, er, private. But, talking about Blackadder isn't the same as talking about his own family or childhood or whatever, so I do find it a little bemusing that he's quite as interview-shy as he is.
As it happens Rowan Atkinson did appear on
Richard & Judy
last year to be interviewed, and Richard Madeley probed him on why he seldom gives interviews. He wouldn't expand any futher than the usual: "I like to keep my private life private". The interview went downhill from there, with Atkinson often being p-r-i-ckly and evasive.
