Blackadder Blackadder Blackadder is a series of four BBC1 pseudohistorical British sitcoms, plus several one-off instalments, which originally aired in the 1980s. All television episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as the anti-hero Edmund Blackadder, and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series was set in a different historical period, with the two protagonists accompanied by different characters, though several reappear in one series or another, for example Melchett (Stephen Fry) and Lord Flashheart (Rik Mayall). The first series, "The Black Adder", was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton. The shows
The Hotel (UK TV series) The Hotel (UK TV series) The Hotel is a fly-on-the-wall British television documentary series which has run for four series consisting of 33 episodes. It is produced by Dragonfly Film and Television Productions and has been broadcast on Channel 4 since 17 April 2011. Unlike "Hotel", a 1997 BBC docu-soap that offered similar backstage access to the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool, the series is filmed using fixed cameras positioned in several locations around the complex rather than using a camera crew. The second and third series of the show were broadcast in the 8pm slot on Sundays on Channel 4,