Actually, I think Farscape was a much closer match. Ship full of escaped convicts, relentlessly pursued by a corrupt Federation…Could’ve been a direct remake.
I always thought of The New Statesman as a Thatcherite Blackadder, although Alan B’Stard was distinctly nastier than Edmund. There’s even a Piers/Baldrick commonality.
I dunno. I think AD was great, and I never missed it, but I think it kinda ran its course. Parts of season 3 were kinda weak, but then they pulled it all together and had a pretty great finale that would be weakened if they ever did anything else. I really hope the off again on again movie doesn’t happen, because you know, there doesn’t need to be any more after that finale.