At the recent Blackadder talk at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, writer Richard Curtis revealed the original title for The Black Adder.<\/p>\n
(cue drum rolls)<\/p>\n
The historical sitcom was originally called\u2026.<\/p>\n
(gosh I bet you\u2019re excited now)<\/p>\n
King Edmund and His Two Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n (cue silence and tumble weed)<\/p>\n Not that exciting really is it? But I\u2019m glad they changed it as it would have been a right pain renaming the other series. Although I don\u2019t think Richard and Rowan thought past the pilot episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the recent Blackadder talk at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, writer Richard Curtis revealed the original title for The Black Adder. (cue drum rolls) The historical sitcom was originally called\u2026. (gosh I bet you\u2019re excited now) King Edmund and His Two Friends (cue silence and tumble weed) Not that exciting really is it? But I\u2019m […]<\/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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-series"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54TBn-7a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":789,"url":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/?p=789","url_meta":{"origin":444,"position":0},"title":"Cheltenham Literary Festival Audio","author":"admin","date":"20 October 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I've finally uploaded the audio from the 2008 Cheltenham Literary Festival talk with Richard Curtis, John Lloyd and Tony Robinson; You'll find it in the library under 'other stuff'. 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