After a reported meeting between stars Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, and Hugh Laurie in London, they all agreed to revive the show and it is being written up now.
Sources indicate the new season is expected to be set in the modern day, with Black adder as a lecturer at a university.
The source said also had the following:
“It will be in the modern day. Blackadder will be a lot older, of course, so they’ve come up with the ageing university lecturer idea. Curtis and Atkinson have discussed guest appearances from stars such as Tom Hardy and Russell Brand.”
Original co-write Richard Curtis had recently said:
The thing about Blackadder was, it was a young man’s show criticising older people, saying how stupid those in authority were. So I did once think, ‘If we ever did anything again, it should be Blackadder as a teacher in a university, about how much we hate young people’.
The news was initially reported by comedy.co.uk.
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