Blackadder return confirmed by Richard Curtis - but without major star

14 February 2023 , 10:34

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Blackadder return confirmed by Richard Curtis - but without major star

Richard Curtis confirmed that Blackadder will be returning to our screens as he joined Gary Davies, who is sitting in for Zoe Ball this week, on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show Tuesday morning.

The Love Actually director revealed that Blackadder will be returning for Comic Relief 2023.

Gary asked his guest: "What’s happening on the telly show..? You were telling me something about Blackadder…?

"God I’m really nervous about saying this but…," Richard replied as Gary joked: "It’s okay, no one’s listening!"

"For the first time in 20 years, Baldrick is going to be giving some kind of performance," the writer and co-creator of the BBC comedy teased.

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"We’re just conspiring about it now, so I think there’s going to be a marvellous, turnip-based thing with Tony Robinson now back in action, so I’m excited about that."

The Radio 2 presenter asked whether Rowan Atkinson would be returning for the performance.

Laughing, Richard replied: "No . Rowan’s far too serious to do any of that!"

"Things are looking up," Richard continued before teasing more from this year's Red Nose Day.

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"We got this amazing Ghosts with Kylie Minogue that's going to be fantastic and we're actually going to South Africa to do our own Love Island sketch which is fabulous as well. It's going to be a very good night."

Blackadder aired from 1983 to 1989 with Rowan starring as Edmund Blackadder and Tony as dogsbody Baldrick.

The BBC series ran for 24 episodes, including three specials and starred a host of famous actors including Stephen Fry, Tim McInnerny and Hugh Laurie.

Last year, both Rowan and Tony addressed the possibility of Blackadder returning.

Rowan noted it "certainly" wasn't "impossible" before adding: "That's about a optimistic as I can be.

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"I’d rather not speculate on when it could be set," he told Radio Times. "But Blackadder represented the creative energy we all had in the '80s. To try to replicate that 30 years on wouldn’t be easy."

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Tony later told RadioTimes.com: "Well, what Rowan has always said to me is if there was to be another Blackadder it shouldn’t necessarily be another six-part television series. We should find another guise for it, another way of doing it."

Charlotte McIntyre