I’ve just seen an promo on Sky one ( a British satelite channel that we get in Ireland ) for Blackadder Back and Forth . It’s coming soon .
:: starts doing backflips ::
Ouch , my spine .
Don’t get to thrilled. It’s was a one-shot deal done for the Millenium festivites last year. Sort of like “Blackadder’s Christmas Carol.”
I’m as disappointed as Mrs Miggins’ mince pie supplier after a gust of an unseasonably uplifting breeze.
Do any U.S. cable channels carry the old episodes?
Absolutely. BBCA (BBC America) does. In fact, I watched an episode of BA2 last night and a BA3 last week.
I think it says a lot about Rowan Atkinson that he can do both the non-verbal, slapstick Mr. Bean type of comedy and the rapier wit, period costume Blackadder type of comedy.
Oh well , it’s still a Blackadder I haven’t seen .
I bet Baldrick will have a cunning plan .
Courtesy of the IMDB:
It’s Millennium Eve and Blackadder is hosting a dinner party for a few select friends, Lady Elizabeth (Miranda Richardson), Viscount George (Hugh Laurie), Archbishop Melchett (Stephen Fry), and Archbishop Darling (Tim McInnerny). Baldrick (Tony Robinson) devises yet another of his infamous cunning plans to help his ever greedy master Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) con money from his gullible friends. The pair build a “time machine” from empty cereal packets and place bets with their friends as to when in history they will travel, retrieving various artifacts from their travels as proof, items which Blackadder already owns! However, in a strange twist of fate the time machine actually works and the pair are thrown back in history initially to the Jurassic period. Gradually the pair start to return to their own time stopping off at various famous times in history such as Sherwood Forest and the Battle of Waterloo but will they make it home?
Seems you guessed right about Baldrick’s cunning plan, yojimbo.
Just found a website that says you can see the film HOURLY at the Milenium Dome until the end of the year.
And here’s some other Blackadder info here:
http://www.blackadderhall.co.uk/timeline/1999.htm
Ooops. That was same link that yojimbo started off with. Never mind me, folks. I’m just killing time 'til I can leave the office.
I hope it’s better than that plot summary made it sound. Well, I’ve yet to be disappointed by anything he’s done, so I’ll remain optimistic.
PBS still shows Blackadder sometimes too.
Nobody cares, but I liked the very first Baldric(hope I spelled that right), the one in the very first of the Black Adder series, where he was smart. But that’s probably only me.
OK, I take it back. I went to the site linked here and read the brief transcripts there. [Steve Irwin] Looks good! Reeeeal good!! [/Steve Irwin]
as well as New harry Enfield, Sky are doing Blackadder.
the bert quote is my sig (at the moment)