Blackadder from this series ranked number three in a list of the top 25 television "putdowns" of the last 40 years by the "Radio Times" magazine: "The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr. Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?" "Blackadder the Third" is set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a period known as the Regency. In the series, Edmund Blackadder Esquire is the butler to the Prince Regent, the Prince of Wales (the prince is played by Hugh Laurie as a complete fop and idiot). Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no
The Third Nero The Third Nero The Third Nero: or Never Say Nero Again is a historical novel by British writer Lindsey Davis, the fifth in her Flavia Albia series. It was first published in the UK on 6 April 2017 by Hodder & Stoughton () and in the United States in 2017 by St. Martin's Press. The tale is set in Ancient Rome and opens in September AD 89, immediately after the previous novel "The Graveyard of the Hesperides" closes (Flavia's husband having been struck by lightning during their wedding celebration). The story revolves around the third Pseudo-Nero, who had the support