In a recent interview, Rowan has confirmed that there will be no new Blackadder; something I very much suspected would be the case.<\/p>\n
On this Rowan said \u201cI made the mistake in Britain to say that it might be a good idea. Now everyone thinks it is going to happen but it is not,\u201d he admitted. \u201cEveryone is much too busy with their own other stuff. And besides that I always believed that ‘Blackadder’ was a comedy consensus of a group of creative people in a certain period of their lives.<\/p>\n
“If you put these people in the same room again 20 years later that consensus has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n
So there you have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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