A couple of weeks a go I was lucky enough to attend the recent Blackadder talk at the Cheltenham Literary Festival with Richard Curtis, Tony Robinson and John Lloyd in attendance. I\u2019ll be doing a full write-up of the event soon, but thought I\u2019d let you all know that Tiger Aspect were recording the event for use in a special 25th anniversary documentary to be broadcast on the BBC later in the year (not really much of the year left is there).<\/p>\n
I\u2019m wondering if they will actually feature something on the never-aired pilot episode as the guys certainly talked about it at great length at the Literary Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A couple of weeks a go I was lucky enough to attend the recent Blackadder talk at the Cheltenham Literary Festival with Richard Curtis, Tony Robinson and John Lloyd in attendance. I\u2019ll be doing a full write-up of the event soon, but thought I\u2019d let you all know that Tiger Aspect were recording the event […]<\/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":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-specials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54TBn-7c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":468,"url":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/?p=468","url_meta":{"origin":446,"position":0},"title":"Blackadder cast and crew to appear at Cheltenham festival","author":"admin","date":"11 September 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Hot diggegy dang and huzzah to boot! 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