# A new Blackadder?

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**Created:** [February 27, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-blackadder/530607 "2010-02-27T03:22:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-blackadder/530607/1 "2010-02-27T03:22:48Z")

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I heard they were working toward a special in 2010. Someone my daughter knows online tossed off, “casually,” that he was in it.

Any details afoot?

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**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-blackadder/530607/2 "2010-02-27T03:29:02Z")

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> [@dropzone](#):
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> I heard they were working toward a special in 2010. Someone my daughter knows online tossed off, “casually,” that he was in it.
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> Any details afoot?

They’ve been talking about a new _Blackadder_ for years. At this point, I’ll believe it when it’s actually being broadcast. Several of the main cast have basically said they’d prefer to leave it as it is, and I can’t imagine Hugh Laurie has a great deal of spare time at the moment either…

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-blackadder/530607/3 "2010-02-27T03:35:36Z")

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That’s what I think, but being a doting father…

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-blackadder/530607/4 "2010-02-27T03:53:17Z")

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Yeah, I don’t think it will happen now.

To quote the article in Wikipedia:

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> During his June 2007 stage performance, chronicled on the Tony Robinson’s Cunning Night Out DVD, Robinson states that after filming the Back & Forth special, the general idea was to reunite for another special in 2010. Robinson jokingly remarked that Hugh Laurie’s success on House may make that difficult.
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> At the end of Blackadder Rides Again Robinson asked Tim McInnerny if he would do another Series and he responded “no”, because he thought people wouldn’t want to see them as they are now and would rather remember them for how they were. In the same documentary, Rowan Atkinson voiced his similar view; ‘Times past; that’s what they were!’ However, Miranda Richardson and Tony Robinson expressed enthusiasm towards the idea of a series set in the Wild West, whilst John Lloyd favoured an idea for a series with a Neanderthal Blackadder.