Blackadder: The Whole Rotten Saga

[Danny Stephenson]

UKTV Gold has commissioned IMG Media’s Tiger Aspect to produce Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga and Blackadder’s Most Cunning Moments, two specials providing a behind-the-scenes look at the BAFTA-winning comedy series Blackadder, which was on the air from 1983 to 1999.

Each two-hour special, both premiering this July, features candid interviews with cast and crew as they share their personal experience of working on Blackadder. They will feature previously unseen footage of the show’s cast in rehearsals, getting into character during make-up sessions and donning their elaborate costumes.

2 HOUR SPECIALS! I’m loving the fact that they’ve finally decided to do a documentary on Blackadder!

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[Pete Part Three]

I can do that perfectly well on my own, thank you very much!

But I’m afraid that not everyone appreciates George and Mildred at al.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:ITV_sitcoms

[Tarka Dal]

I know sorry, I was trading a bit on the cliche of ITV Sitcoms being mostly bunkem.

Still if we go back to the 70s then sure, but since then? Isn’t it fair to say that the BBC had them over a barrel in the 80s in terms of pure sitcom (So not including great stuff like Saturday Live, Spitting Image and Auf Wiedersehen Pet) and since then anything with real quality seems to have come from BBC2/Channel 4

Anyhow, something I’ve just noticed. The show featured this week…

Comedy Classics: Brass
A celebration of the Eighties sitcom starring Timothy West as Bradley Hardacre, a greedy capitalist tyrant lording it over the downtrodden villagers of Utterley, in particular the lowly Fairchild family. Set in the 1930s, the show was a send-up of the gritty old cliches of Northern England, penned by former Coronation Street scriptwriters Julian Roach and John Stevenson SUB

…isn’t on the list above!

[Seb Patrick]

I haven’t got round to watching the Blackadder docco yet, but I have just been watching series two again. I’d never noticed it before (probably because I’ve never really watched them in order before), but it must have been *really* disconcerting for viewers to have Bells as the first episode! Head does a lot to establish who the characters are, how Blackadder and Baldrick are different from the first series, and so on (and also has the closing song referring to “His great grandfather was a king” etc.) – but then for some reason they stuck Bells first, which throws you in as if you know all the characters straight off!

[Pete Part Three]

Plus, Percy shaves off his beard.

[Jonathan Capps]

Personally, I think it’s ruined by the canned laughter.

[ChrisM]

Blackadder best bits tonight. I’m in two minds on this kind of show. They’re entertaining but they gooo…. oooon…. sooo….. loooooong. (See what I did there?)

[Jonathan Capps]

> (See what I did there?)

No.

[Phil]

IDSWYDT

[Danny Stephenson]

ITSWYDT

[Pete Part Three]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a136538/blackadder-cast-reunite-for-documentary.html

You wait ages for a Blackadder documentary…

[ChrisM]

Great news if it turns out true.

[Danny Stephenson]

It shoudl be, but i’m confused why they would do a documentary so soon after already doing one.

[Jonathan Capps]

Glad a proper channel is doing one.

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