Blackadder in Colditz? | John Lloyd has a cunning plan... © BBC

Blackadder in Colditz?

John Lloyd has a cunning plan...

Blackadder could return as a movie set in a German prisoner of war camp.

Producer John Lloyd revealed that he and star Rowan Atkinson have discussed reviving the character as a Second World War PoW in Colditz.

And he said it could even tie into the classic ‘Don’t tell him, Pike’ episode of Dad’s Army episode where the Home Guard platoon encountered a German submarine commander.

However the idea remains just that at the moment.

Speaking on BBC Breakfast this morning, Lloyd said: ‘Rowan and I had this great idea – because we're all getting a bit old now – of doing a Dad's Army; that they are a platoon in Walmington-on-Sea, and they get kidnapped by a German submarine and taken to Colditz and they all have to escape.’

‘Tony Robinson is probably very nearly 70 now and it would be just about the right age, and I think quite funny, don't you?’

He added: ‘It'd make a good movie, don't you think?’

Last year Atkinson performed a 21st century version of his character, Sir Edmund Blackadder, chief executive of a bailed-out bank, in a live sketch at Prince Charles’s benefit gig We Are Most Amused.

Previous talk of a fifth series has usually concentrated on the team being a Sixties band, the Blackadder Five, with Robinson as the drummer Bald Rick.

Lloyd was on BBC One to promote his Edinburgh Fringe show Liff Of QI, here he reiterated his concerns about over-cautious TV excutives, saying broadcasters are now ‘a bit concerned what everyone else thinks’.

Here is his interview in full:

Published: 26 Jul 2013

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