Blackadder 2000 / New "Are You Being Served?" / Goodbye Morse / Brit-Mystery Showdown Extended
Any British Comedy fans who are still undecided on where to go to the the Millennium need wonder no longer. The Blackadder clan will be appearing at London's Millennium Dome from the first of January 2000 in their first ever feature film. Rowan Atkinson is back as Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson reprises his role as Blackadder's sidekick and dogsbody Baldrick in what promises to be the comedy event of the coming year. Written by Richard Curtis (Four Wedding & a Funeral, Notting Hill) and Ben Elton the Blackadder film centers around Edmund and Baldrick's adventures as they travel through time in a machine designed by Baldrick (!) from Leonardo DaVinci's blueprints. The film also stars Blackadder regulars Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson and Rik Mayall as well as the once famously waifish Kate Moss and rather less famously waifish Colin Firth.
Tickets for the film's initial run (before being aired on television in the year 2001) are available at National Lottery ticket sellers, a UK ticketline ( 0870 606 2000) and the Dome website.
It's been far too long since the last series of Blackadder (the uneven Blackadder Goes Fourth) with a number of rumored reunions turned out to be no more than that, just rumors. The most popular rumor was for The Blackadder Five, to be set at the height of Beatlemania, though whether this was ever officially considered I don't know.
Another classic British Comedy making a comeback, of sorts, is Croft and Lloyds' Are You Being Served?. According to published, though unconfirmed reports John Inman will reprise his role as Mr. Humphies in Are You Being Served Again? (Not to be confused with the US re-named version of Grace and Favour) The plot concerns our man Humphries taking over a fancy dress shop. This is welcome news for AYBS? fans but what of the rest of the cast?
One beloved telly character who won't be making a comeback after his next series will be Inspector Morse. Colin Dexter has said that the new Morse mystery, The Remorseful Day, is to be the last and the television adaptation, to air in Britain in the spring, will bring to a close John Thaw's acclaimed run as the Oxford detective.
Speaking of Morse, a finalist in the Brit-Mystery Showdown, along with Taggart.... The Brit-Mystery Showdown voting has been extended for at least another week so make sure you get your votes in for your favorite!
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