Blackadder
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1983 - 2000
- 26 episodes (4 series)
The Blackadder dynasty has run through English history since time immemorial, seemingly always hampered by a Baldrick, and often a Percy and Melchett. Stars Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and more.
- The Black Adder, Episode 6 repeated Saturday 12th April at 2:30am on U&Gold
Streaming rank this week: 76
Press clippings Page 16
How Blackadder changed the history of comedy
The screenwriter and director Richard Curtis talks to The Independent about his enduringly popular creation.
Ian Burrell, The Independent, 15th June 2009The 25th anniversary Blackadder Rides Again documentary was fifteen minutes of worthwhile information and footage, separating clips that sometimes didn't even last to the punchlines. G.O.L.D's Blackadder documentary a few months ago covered most of the bases here, so this was a bit tiresome for me. For fans, there wasn't much to get terribly excited about - unless you liked to be reminded how dour and humourless Rowan Atkinson is in real life (he admits it himself), wanted to see a clip from the original pilot episode (is the whole thing available as a DVD extra?), and that terrible last shot of Blackadder Goes Forth (before a bit of slo-mo and piano music transform it into one of British comedy's greatest moments.)
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 3rd January 2009Daily Mail Article
As Blackadder turns 25, we chart the spectacular rise of the much-loved sitcom.
David Thomas, Daily Mail, 12th December 2008Fortune vomits on my eiderdown yet again
News that Blackadder will return to our screens this Christmas with a new documentary has produced a level of national salivation absent from pop culture since George Lucas stamped on the dreams of Star Wars fans.
Stephen Armstrong, The Guardian, 26th November 2008Thankfully, they more or less pulled it off; but it's doubtful whether it could - and should - happen again. For Curtis and Elton seem almost too preoccupied, or lazy, or indifferent, to sustain any kind of rekindled comic genius for a whole new series of Blackadder anymore - you sense that half an hour is more or less the limit.
Ian Jones, Off The Telly, 1st October 2000Blackadder (BBC1) is back, this time in the Regency period as gentleman's gentleman to the first gentleman of Europe. Rather extravagant laughter from an audience of close friends, kookaburras and people whose vests tickle.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 18th September 1987