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MARTIN1 · 23/08/2015 16:33

Am I being unreasonable to not want them to bother making a new series of Blackadder? The series set in the First World War was quite lame compared to the others and the millennium episode was far from tv gold.

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ooerrmissus · 23/08/2015 16:36

No, I had exactly the same thoughts. It will never be as good

HermioneWeasley · 23/08/2015 16:37

Disagree about WWI series, I thought it was excellent

KurriKurri · 23/08/2015 16:39

Without Flashheart, Blackadder would be like a broken pencil.

Jasonandyawegunorts · 23/08/2015 16:42

I agree, Not that the WW1 series was bad, but they shouldn't do another.

Maybe a one off feature length special or something would be better.

OddlyLogical · 23/08/2015 16:47

I don't think it's going to be compulsory to watch it.

CaptainHammer · 23/08/2015 16:48

I love Blackadder but I wish they'd stop bringing shows back and ruining them!

MARTIN1 · 23/08/2015 16:50

Oddlylogical It WILL be compulsory watching for me if they do another series/special

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BertrandRussell · 23/08/2015 16:50

The WW1 was fantastic! Only beaten -just- by the Elizabethan one.

Jasonandyawegunorts · 23/08/2015 16:51

I don't think it's going to be compulsory to watch it.

You say that but the last time someone in this house refused to watch Blackadder, Tony Robinson appeared, tied them to a chair and beat them around the face with the leg bone of a Roman solder.

MadamArcatiAgain · 23/08/2015 17:03

The WW was my favourite and I loved the poignant ending.I think it brought home to new generation the scandalous waste of life. Sad Angry Sad
Don't remember the millennium one?

MARTIN1 · 23/08/2015 17:16

I did like the ending of WW1, it was very moving. I felt they laboured the Captain Darling joke too much. I loved the Flash-Heart episode when Bladder wanted to join the RAF!

"Always treat you kite, like you treat your woman - Get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back"

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Birdsgottafly · 23/08/2015 17:19

I loved Blackadder, but I now can't stand RA, because of his pisstake of Autistic etc movements, him being practically non verbal in Mr Bean, made it even worse.

So BA has been destroyed for me, for that reason, plus it won't be nearly as good.

Jasonandyawegunorts · 23/08/2015 17:22

because of his pisstake of Autistic etc movements, him being practically non verbal in Mr Bean, made it even worse

When Mr Bean was invented, The character in 1979 for not the 9 o’clock news, Autism wasn't really a thing with those as defining characteristics. It’s not an outright Pisstake of autism.

Jasonandyawegunorts · 23/08/2015 17:24

Rowan Atkinson stole most of the character from Mr Hulot.

You could say the same about Mr laurel.

BertrandRussell · 23/08/2015 17:27

I hate Mr Bean. But why does that mean I have to hate Blackadder too?

MARTIN1 · 23/08/2015 17:34

I've never like Mr Bean. Johnny English is OK but I think Bean and English are more aimed at the younger teen age group

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ppeatfruit · 23/08/2015 17:39

I agree Bertrand Mr Bean was embarrassing but Blackadder is effing brilliant esp. the Tudor one where RA is sooo HOT Grin. Not bad as the Regency butler either. Not sure about a remake though. The Christmas Carol one was not very good at all.

The man is a very good actor.

ComposHatComesBack · 23/08/2015 17:44

I have mixed feelings about the fourth series. Obviously the ending was great, but the jokes seemed laboured in comparison to the Elizabethan and Georgian ones. The Darling joke wears very thin as do the laboured "As cunning as a fox who's recently been made professor of cunning at Oxford university" similes.

The possibility of a new series gets floated every few years but comes to nothing, thankfully. Ideas floated have included Colditz (too similar to Blackadder goes Forth?) and a Rock group in the 60s called The Black Adder 5. (Not sure how that would work given that all the actors are well into their 50s) and the post Blackadder output of Richard Curtis and Ben Elton doesn't exactly fill me with confidence that anything they'd produce would be any cop.

Pipbin · 23/08/2015 17:47

It can't be good. It simply can't be.
It doesn't need making.

sonjadog · 23/08/2015 17:53

A new series can't be made. It would never be as good as those actors have aged and moved on. It would only work if time travel were possible and they could make more series there and then.

xavierfondue · 23/08/2015 17:54

Wow - DH mentioned this today - first I'd heard of it. He said that he'd heard Tony Robinson claiming that it was going to be set in the 1960s and the characters were going to be part of a rock band. Can't see it working, TBH. Ah, just seen Compos's post about the rock band. waves at Compos

I HATED the space episode. I HATED the Christmas Carol episode.

They should leave perfection alone.

ppeatfruit · 23/08/2015 17:55

A lot of Rock stars are in their 70s ComposH Grin It COULD be very good it depends on the writing of course.

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TheMoonOnAStick15 · 23/08/2015 17:58

At least it'll be with the same people. I'm worried about the forthcoming Dad's Army film.

That said, imo they def should have left Open All Hours alone...

MARTIN1 · 23/08/2015 18:00

Apparently Tony Robinson was going to be the drummer in the band and his name Bald Rick

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Jasonandyawegunorts · 23/08/2015 18:00

The possibility of a new series gets floated every few years but comes to nothing, thankfully. Ideas floated have included Colditz (too similar to Blackadder goes Forth?) and a Rock group in the 60s called The Black Adder 5.

There was also talk of a 60 coldwar spy set up for the 5th.

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