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MYSTERIOUS: Baldrick - What They Never Told You

Readers reply: what are the best examples of genuine irony?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

The Guardian - UK

A cunning plan! Could Ben Elton bring back Blackadder?

More than 40 years after the unlucky antihero first appeared on TV screens, the writer who helped to bring him to life is thinking about a comeback

The Guardian - UK

Blackadder Bob actress is guest starring as Death in Paradise murder victim this Sunday

Blackadder star turns up on Saint Marie in episode six of Death in Paradise

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Digested week: Taking it in turns, we’ve taught Mum how to WhatsApp

This Christmas week, a sobering realisation, realistic resolutions and the Gammons’ imperial dreams

The Guardian - UK

Blackadder at 40: the difficult birth of a classic TV comedy

As part of this year’s 40th anniversary celebrations of Blackadder, the classic historical BBC comedy series, the pilot episode from 1982 aired for the first time in years on Gold. It’s been hitherto kept under wraps, never broadcast or released on DVD. Why? It’s because it’s simply not Blackadder as…

The Conversation

Blackadder 40th anniversary: Where to watch the unaired pilot episode tonight

The lost pilot will finally be shown on BBC television to mark 40 years of the comedy

Evening Standard

Blackadder's Tony Robinson on why another actor originally played Baldrick

Sir Tony Robinson on unearthing the previously unaired pilot episode of historical sitcom Blackadder and why he's not in it!

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Lost first episode of Blackadder with different actor playing Baldrick will air in UK

Philip Fox, who later had roles in Midsomer Murders and Waking the Dead, replaced Tony Robinson after he pulled out to take a year-long role with the National Theatre

Irish Mirror

Twist of fate that handed Tony Robinson his breakthrough in Blackadder

Landing the role of loveable idiot Baldrick in legendary sitcom Blackadder back in the early 1980s dramatically changed the course of Tony’s life

Daily Mirror

Labour’s hunt for celebs off to a slow start (but Baldrick’s back)

The party has spent £50,000 on a celebrity endorsements officer

Evening Standard

Portrait of TV comedy icon sneaked into stately home - and mistaken for Shakespeare

The painting should be instantly recognisable to most Britons - but some visitors to Audley End House wrongly thought it depicted the Bard or Sir Walter Raleigh

Daily Mirror

Blackadder portrait appears at historic mansion house leaving visitors scratching their heads

The oil painting shows Rowan Atkinson's BBC sitcom character in his Elizabethan attire

Wales Online

Who's Queen? Queenie stars as Blackadder goes 1st class

The Royal Mail has released a series of 13 Blackadder-themed stamps to celebrate 40 years since the comedy debuted.

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Iconic BBC comedy set to return for its 40th anniversary, hints one of its stars

Tony Robinson has hinted a major BBC comedy could be set to return to our screens 40 years after it first aired, sending the show's legion of loyal fans into a frenzy

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The Independent UK

Blackadder’s Tony Robinson teases reunion special: ‘Everybody likes a 40th anniversary, don’t they?’

Actor told The Independent in 2021 that a reunion was ‘not on the horizon’

Evening Standard

Sir Tony Robinson hints new Blackadder project is in development

Sir Tony Robinson has hinted a new Blackadder project is in development after he reprised the role of Baldrick for Comic Relief.

Wales Online

Red Nose Day's star-studded sketches help Comic Relief raise more than £31m

The amount, though, was £8 million less than the total at the same point of last year’s show

Daily Mirror

Blackadder's Tony Robinson inundated with support after Comic Relief comeback

Sir Tony Robison reprised the character Baldrick on Comic Relief earlier this evening, with the actor having previously played versions of the role in the four original series of sitcom Blackadder

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The Independent UK

Comic Relief 2023: Blackadder fans rejoice in Baldrick’s return after 20 years

‘This is a lovely story called Balder-ella,’ Tony Robinson told viewers in special

Daily Mirror

Blackadder favourite Baldrick making return to TV - and he has a 'cunning plan'

Sir Tony Robinson, 76, is returning as the beloved buffoon Baldrick from hit comedy Blackadder to read a story for Comic Relief

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe: ‘Aspirational Australians’, Peter Dutton’s venality and other tax jokes

Peter Dutton’s claim that “the government’s super tax is an attack on aspirational Australians ...” would be sad if it wasn’t laughable.

The Guardian - UK

Environment secretary urges Britons to ‘cherish’ turnips amid food shortages

Thérèse Coffey’s championing of UK ‘specialisms’ causes one Labour MP to retort: ‘Let them eat turnips!’

Wales Online

Tony Robinson to return as Baldrick for first time in 20 years

Sir Tony previously reprised his role for a Comic Relief Red Nose Day sketch in 1988

The Guardian - UK

Man vs Bee review – Rowan Atkinson channels Bean and Baldrick in his new slapstick sitcom

The actor is at his comic best as an accident-prone housesitter who goes on a rage spree and destroys a high-tech home in an epic battle

The Guardian - UK

‘I wanted to play the polar opposite of Baldrick’ – Tony Robinson on making Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

The Blackadder star loved playing the villain in this Robin Hood spoof – but Kate Lonergan had to get checked for bites between shots as her yellow underwear kept attracting ticks

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