Blackadder goes groovy

Had there been a fifth series of Blackadder, the eponymous hero would have been a 60s entrepreneur and Baldrick the assassin of JF Kennedy, writer Richard Curtis has revealed. 'We'd decided on the 60s because it was such a rich period,' Curtis told the Cheltenham Literature Festival. 'It was a time of dodgy entrepreneurs with their fingers in loads of pies.' The Daily Express reports that Curtis and Ben Elton were never able to get the cast together.