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\"\"<\/a>Back in 2004, the BBC broadcast a series that wanted to find \u2018Britain\u2019s Best Sitcom\u2019. The British public voted by phone and text during 2003 to decide on the top 100. With the results in, the top 10 were produced and a celebrity advocate of a sitcom was chosen to put their case to the public to ultimately decide on what would be the greatest sitcom.<\/p>\n

John Sergeant states why \u2018Blackadder\u2019 is his favourite sitcom.<\/p>\n

You can read his statement and watch the episode here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in 2004, the BBC broadcast a series that wanted to find \u2018Britain\u2019s Best Sitcom\u2019. The British public voted by phone and text during 2003 to decide on the top 100. With the results in, the top 10 were produced and a celebrity advocate of a sitcom was chosen to put their case to the […]<\/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":[2,4,7],"tags":[16,22,23,32,83,89,98],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-series","category-specials","tag-baldrick","tag-black-adder","tag-blackadder","tag-comedy","tag-rowan-atkinson","tag-sitcom","tag-tony-robinson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54TBn-cV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":422,"url":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/?p=422","url_meta":{"origin":801,"position":0},"title":"Rowan Atkinson to revisit Blackadder","author":"admin","date":"24 November 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to long-standing, much respected Blackadder Hall visitor, nay part-of-the-furniture, John D. for spotting this gem. 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Geoffrey Perkins, one of Britain\u2019s great sitcom and TV show producers of the past 20 years has died in a tragic accident near his home in London. Source: BBC.co.uk Geoffrey Perkins, 55, worked for many\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cast & Crew"","block_context":{"text":"Cast & Crew","link":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":486,"url":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/?p=486","url_meta":{"origin":801,"position":4},"title":"Blackadder plotting a return? (in short, NO)","author":"admin","date":"9 June 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The cast of classic sitcom Blackadder will meet later this year and discuss a revival, Teletext reveals. The get-together will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its BBC debut. 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