His friend, Robert Taylor who contacted me, said “Dave was a friend of mine and a lovely man and will be missed by all”.

My thoughts and condolences to family, friends and those that knew him.

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TONY ROBINSON has revealed he wants to make a new Blackadder series but there’s a drawback: “We can’t afford Hugh Laurie’s salary.”

Not content with buying all the DVDs, books and videos, this mad bint has got her own personalised car registration plate.

I for one think its bloody brilliant and shows dedication to the Blackadder cause.

Thanks for sharing. If you’re in Connecticut and you spot it, do honk your horn!

“I’ve just started working on a new project with Richard,” Elton explained at the first night of Cirque du Soleil’s Totem at the Royal Albert Hall. “It’s been a long time since we worked together so it is fun.”

Curtis, who went on to write and direct, is, however, unlikely to be creating another series of Blackadder with Elton.

“It is so lovely that everyone wants it back that it’s almost a shame to do it and ruin that,” says Elton. “The new stuff will be original, but I can’t reveal anymore than that.”

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I originally saw this story on the telegraph, but they incorrectly stated that it had been over 20 years since they had worked together. What’s funny is that they lead the story with a still from Blackadder Back & Forth.

Tony Robinson hopes all the Blackadder team can reunite on the big screen.

The Time Team presenter starred alongside Rowan Atkinson in Richard Curtis and Ben Elton’s comedy Blackadder for four series and two special episodes as “I have a cunning plan” sidekick Baldrick. And he is keen to be a part of a movie spin-off.

Tony said: “I think we’d do much better making a Blackadder movie, even if it was relatively low budget, than going back to a TV series.

“If we made a TV series, everyone would just compare it with the other TV series, whereas if we moved to a different kind of canvas then there’s a chance that people might be prepared to judge it on what it is rather than compare it with something we did 20 years ago.”

And Rowan recently revealed that it “wasn’t impossible” that he would ever reprise his role as Blackadder.
Tony said: “Yes it’s funny, Rowan seems to have changed his tune a little bit during the interviews for Johnny English, which is great.”

He added: “I’ve always said I’d be happy to do another series – and my bank manager would certainly be incredibly enthusiastic about me doing another series.

“But I think a lot of the others have always been very diffident simply because we’ve all got so much on. It was very difficult to get us all together to do Blackadder Back And Forth which we did in 1999 for the Millennium Dome.

“But if Rowan is beginning to think a bit more fondly about doing something, then maybe Richard [Curtis] and Ben [Elton] will as well.”

John Sergeant states why ‘Blackadder’ is his favourite sitcom.

You can read his statement and watch the episode here.

I know I promised this quite some time a go, but I have finally uploaded part of the Comic Relief Comic from the 80s. You’ll find 28 pages of graphic novel goodness to view. Off you pop.

If you click on the series headers above, you’ll see an ‘Audio’ sub-category – click on that to listen to the audio tracks for that chosen series.

Get it here!

The promotion runs from now until October 21st 2011; so get downloading.

*Only applies to US iTunes account holders. So if you don’t have a US iTunes account; create one