I guess it’s been a while since I’ve sent you an email, and to be honest, I’d just use the BA Hall forums for this message if they were currently up and running. But seeing as they’re not…

Anyway, evidently Stephen Fry participated in another live web chat just a couple of days ago, and as per usual, questions were asked about Blackadder, and his answers ended up reflected in certain media megaphones. Also as per usual. Isn’t it wacky how this particular series of events just seem to endlessly repeat themselves? As I’m sure you’ll be amazed to learn (if you don’t already know), the Sun latched onto his comments, and this time the focus was on Ben Elton’s idea for a BA film set in the Russian Revolution. The comedy websites Chortle.co.uk and Funny.co.uk picked up on this “news”. In fact, the Funny site has a link to the entire Fry webchat, if you’re interested in checking it out. It mentions some interesting details about various upcoming projects he’s involved in.

I dunno why I feel compelled to share this information with people, seeing as it’s not really “news” in any real sense…though the most interesting thing Fry had to say was that he chatted with Rowan Atkinson via the phone last week – RA was in France filming the Bean sequel – and Rowan apparently made another pronouncement about how much he’d love to return to the Blackadder universe. I suppose I’m grasping at straws, but who knows? Maybe something will happen at some point…it’s at least encouraging that the star of the series wants to do another one…

John A.