Rowan Atkinson watched Blackadder for the first time as he was travelling on a plane. The 70-year-old star purposely never watches himself on screen and revealed that he got a pleasant surprise when ...

Man vs Baby has just landed on Netflix, and the four-part series serves as a sequel to Man vs Bee, with Rowan Atkinson returning as Trevor Bingley. Whilst his previous role saw him house-sitting, ...

Rowan Atkinson will never revive Blackadder because "the only motivation would be money". The 70-year-old actor starred in four series of the hit historical comedy between 1983 and 1989, and Atkinson ...

A Blackadder script that was considered 'too offensive' for broadcast is now being sold for £10,000. The sitcom, starring Rowan Atkinson, aired for four series on BBC One during the 1980s, with a ...

Tony Robinson and Rowan Atkinson’s 1988 Christmas Carol wasn’t their initial plan (Picture: Don Smith/Radio Times/Getty Images) Created with AI assistance. Quality assured by Metro editors. A ...

Ben Elton, it’s obvious, is slightly floored by the question – but it’s actually pretty straightforward: “Why does everybody hate you?” Maybe it’s because the query comes not from me, interviewing him ...

Blackadder writers have a cunning plan to unleash an abandoned episode of the iconic sitcom back onto the world. An unfilmed script was sadly ditched before production in 1988, but writer Richard ...

Ben Elton has scoffed at the idea of a Swinging Sixties revival of Blackadder and says a fifth series is ‘cosmically unlikely’. There has long been talk of a new series of the show with Rowan Atkinson ...

It’s clear from his searingly honest memoir that for every work of genius the comedian and writer Ben Elton has created during his 45-year career, there’s been someone waiting in the wings to put him ...

One of Stephen Fry's Blackadder co-stars' has revealed why watching the Celebrity Traitors left him ‘in tears’. Kicking off its first ever series on the BBC last week, Celebrity Traitors sees 19 ...

When Ben Elton told his publisher that he was considering committing his life story to print, he was told: “The first thing you’re going to need to address is why so many people hate you.” It’s a ...

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