Could Blackadder return? Richard Curtis hints at a new chapter for the beloved comedy

Could the wait be over? Is it possible to bring two beloved characters back from the dead? If Richard Curtis has his way, there’s a very good chance we could see Blackadder and Baldrick ride once more.

The much-loved BBC sitcom, featuring Rowan Atkinson as the iconic lead and Sir Tony Robinson as his sidekick Baldrick, aired for 24 episodes across six years.

For many fans, it was the end for these two beloved schemers, as their last incarnations turned up in the First World War for season four and the final episode shows the twosome ordered to go “over the top,” run out into no man’s land and directly into enemy fire. It is implied that they both found a bloody end here as the final scene fades to a field of poppies evoking the lost and dead from the Great War.

There was a brief return with special Blackadder: Back & Forth set at the turn of the new millennium where a now successful Lord Blackadder tries to swindle his friends with a fake time machine, built by his ever-bumbling sidekick Baldrick who mistakenly makes a real one but forgot to write dates on the machine’s dial.

Fans were also treated to an appearance by Baldrick after Robinson reprised his role in a sketch written by Curtis for Comic Relief last year.

Now Blackadder creator and writer Richard Curtis wants to bring these two beloved characters back.

“Rowan and I have a plan for something we might do which would just be a bit of fun sometime in the next few years,” Curtis said through GB News.

“I’d love to work with Rowan one more time on something.”

Although popular while on air, the comedy continues to attract fans of all ages and is still viewed on numerous streaming outlets and it’s something Curtis has thought about before, he explained on the Cunningcast podcast with Tony Robinson.

“Why has it lasted well? I wonder whether one of the reasons is because it’s set in history it doesn’t date,” he said.

“The actors not rehearsing, simply re-writing and arguing about the script for five days a week did make it very dense,” he said.

“Therefore I do think it has a richness to it which means that when people return to it there’s still lots going on rather than it being very sort of unitary and simple.”