Sir Tony Robinson has announced that a new TV show “associated with Blackadder” will be broadcast “in the coming months.”
In the BBC sitcom, which ran from 1983 to 1989, the 76-year-old portrayed hapless servant Baldrick opposite Rowan Atkinson’s aristocratic Edmund Blackadder.
Since the popular show stopped more than three decades ago, there have been a number of specials, including a recent sketch for Comic Relief, and it appears that more Blackadder material is on the way.
The Time Team host hasn’t precisely revealed what the hidden Blackadder-related endeavour is, but he has assured viewers that they ‘won’t have seen it before.’
‘There is something new coming at some point in the next few months but I’m sworn to secrecy as to precisely what it is,’ he told the Daily Mail.
‘All I can say is that it will be on TV, and it’s something associated with Blackadder that viewers won’t have seen before.’
Tony also revealed that after reading a Cbeebies Bedtime Story as Baldrick for Red Nose Day earlier this month, he was’swamped with love’ by admirers, and he is expecting for a similar response to the forthcoming mystery project.
He added: ‘I was swamped with love from the public after that, so I’m feeling very positive about the future.’
The BBC’s comedy head, Jon Petrie, revealed earlier this month that the company is open to discussions with Blackadder author Richard Curtis about a fresh series.
Speaking at a BBC Comedy Showcase, he said: ‘We would always be happy to talk to Richard.’
Tony earlier stated that a new Blackadder series is doubtful because viewers might not be as ‘warm’ about it as they were about the initial shows, but he did not totally rule it out.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘The argument always is that however good a new series might be, the people who are watching it wouldn’t be in the same state of mind and same state of emotions as they were when they watched the first series.
‘They wouldn’t feel as warm about it, they wouldn’t feel as good about it. Even if it was absolutely great they’d go, ‘It’s not like the old series, is it?’
‘So I think that’s one of the main reasons why no one has ever seriously thought about writing another series.
‘But who knows, who knows? It’s not down to me, it’s down to Richard and Ben [Elton].’
Source My Celebrity Life.