Richard Curtis teases Blackadder plans with Rowan Atkinson

Richard Curtis has teased some 'Blackadder' plans "in the next few years".

The 68-year-old director - who created the iconic BBC sitcom which starred Rowan Atkinson as lead character Edmund Blackadder alongside Sir Tony Robinson as his dogsbody Baldrick - has hinted there could be something in the pipeline 24 years after 'Back and Forth' first aired.

When it was mentioned he's previously said he's "not interested" in a 'Blackadder' revival, Richard gave an interesting response to the Metro newspaper's 60 Seconds column.

He said: "Well, oddly, Rowan and I have a plan for something we might do which would just be a bit of fun sometime in the next few years.

"I'd love to work with Rowan one more time on something."

Despite the last full series - which placed Rowan’s titular character in the trenches of World War I - airing in 1989, the show still has an incredibly loyal fanbase and new people coming to comedy all the time.

Curtis previously suggested that the secret to Blackadder’s longevity is that each of the four series is set in a different era of history which means that the show doesn’t age like other classic sitcoms such as John Cleese’s 'Fawlty Towers', which was set in a fictional hotel in the English seaside town of Torquay in Devon and aired between 1975 and 1979.

He told Robinson's 'Cunningcast' podcast: "Why has it lasted well? I wonder whether one of the reasons is because it’s set in history it doesn’t date.

“Even 'Fawlty' is starting to look a bit creaky round the edges but because of the fact that we were 400 years out of date when we started I think it has a long lasting quality.

“Then I think the process that I find so hard, which was the actors not rehearsing, simply re-writing and arguing about the script for five days a week did make it very dense.

"Therefore I do think it has a richness to it which means that when people return to it there’s still lots going on rather than it being very sort of unitary and simple.

"I also think we caught a lot of people in their performing prime.”