The Foretelling The Foretelling "The Foretelling" is the first episode of the BBC sitcom "The Black Adder", the first series of the long-running comedy programme "Blackadder". It marks Rowan Atkinson's début as the character Edmund Blackadder, and is the first appearance of the recurring characters Baldrick (Tony Robinson) and Percy (Tim McInnerny). The comedy actor Peter Cook guest stars as King Richard III. "The Black Adder" is a historical comedy set in late Medieval England on the cusp of the Tudor Period, and centres on the eponymous "Black Adder", the pseudonym adopted from this episode onwards by Edmund Plantagenet, Duke of Edinburgh.
Richard III (play) the earliest surviving American feature film. In 2002 the story of Richard III was re-told in a movie about gang culture called "King Rikki" (also known as "The Street King"). The BBC Television Shakespeare version, first broadcast in 1983, starred Ron Cook as Richard. BBC Two aired a new adaptation of "Richard III" in 2016 as part of "The Hollow Crown" series, with Benedict Cumberbatch playing the king. Executive producer Pippa Harris commented, "By filming the "Henry VI" plays as well as "Richard III", we will allow viewers to fully appreciate how such a monstrous tyrant could find his way