{"id":393,"date":"2011-10-07T10:08:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T09:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tonenoir.co.uk\/?p=393"},"modified":"2011-10-07T10:08:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T09:08:41","slug":"dr-who-style-blackadder-considered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Who style Blackadder considered"},"content":{"rendered":"

This little snippet of info surfaced in a recent interview with Rowan Atkinson on the BBC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asked why there had never been a Blackadder feature film, Atkinson said it was \u201csurprisingly tricky\u201d to expand the sitcom format to an hour and a half.<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t see a movie version ever happening. \u201cWe\u2019ve all just gone our different ways, it\u2019s very difficult to get people back together.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to create the comic creative consensus that we all enjoyed in the 1980s – the writers, producers and actors – and even if you get the same people together, they don\u2019t necessarily have the same ambitions and attitudes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Atkinson, who in 1999 starred in a Doctor Who special for Comic Relief, said it had been \u201ca secret ambition\u201d of his at one stage to play the Doctor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember we were thinking of doing a Blackadder episode called Doctor Whom in which Blackadder would be effectively the Doctor and Baldrick would be his sidekick. But that never came to anything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This little snippet of info surfaced in a recent interview with Rowan Atkinson on the BBC website. Asked why there had never been a Blackadder feature film, Atkinson said it was \u201csurprisingly tricky\u201d to expand the sitcom format to an hour and a half. He doesn\u2019t see a movie version ever happening. \u201cWe\u2019ve all just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-series"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54TBn-6l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":618,"url":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/?p=618","url_meta":{"origin":393,"position":0},"title":"Baldrick builds Blackadder time machine","author":"admin","date":"13 September 1999","format":false,"excerpt":"Monday 13 September 1999 - EXCITE Blackadder\u2019s sidekick Baldrick, best known for his creativity with turnips, proves he can be even more imaginative by building a time machine. 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