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Blackadder<\/em> co-scribe (series 2 onwards), Ben Elton has stated that while he would love to work with the other co-scribe and Blackadder<\/em> co-creator Richard Curtis on something new, it wouldn’t be on another Blackadder<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to The Radio Times magazine<\/a> here in the UK, Elton said “We were a great team and I\u2019ve talked so many times about doing something else.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot Blackadder again,” he added. “I don\u2019t think either of us feel any appetite to do that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, the show’s stars Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson \u2013 who played Edmund Blackadder and Baldrick across all four seasons \u2013 both addressed the possibility of a return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atkinson explained that it “certainly” wasn’t “impossible”<\/a> that the show might be revived at some point, but added: “That\u2019s about as optimistic as I can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I\u2019d rather not speculate on when it could be set,” he continued. “But Blackadder represented the creative energy we all had in the ’80s. To try to replicate that 30 years on wouldn\u2019t be easy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robinson later admitted that he would be keen to step back into his role at some point, although he revealed it might have to be in a different format<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Well, what Rowan has always said to me is if there was to be another Blackadder it shouldn\u2019t necessarily be another six-part television series,” he said. “We should find another guise for it, another way of doing it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“[Atkinson] once said to me wouldn\u2019t it be great if we could take over the Royal Tournament military tattoo one summer, it would be Blackadder\u2019s Royal Tournament,” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I\u2019m not saying that would necessarily be the idea we went with but I think it ought to be possible to come up with something at some time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Personally, I’d love for Elton & Curtis to work together on something new – even if it isn’t Blackadder. Hope you like the picture; it’s an AI artist’s impression of Ben Elton if he was painted by Rembrandt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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