One of the best comedy series ever to emerge from England, Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of World War I. In his pre-Mr Bean triumph, British comic actor Rowan Atkinson played all five versions of Edmund, beginning with the villainous and cowardly Duke of Edinburgh, whose ...
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Stephen Fry, Hugh LaurieDirected By: Martin Shardlow, Mandie Fletcher, Richard Boden
Manufacturer: ITV DVDStarring: Stephen Fry, Hugh LaurieDirected By: Robert Young, Simon Langton, Ferdinand Fairfax
The final Blackadder series, which first appeared in 1990, was the most highly evolved of all of the Richard Curtis/Ben Elton-scripted excursions. Having contrived to attain the Crown at the end of the third series, Rowan Atkinson's Edmund Blackadder is now reduced to a mere Captaincy in the trenches during World War I, with these episodes finding him shooting messenger pigeons, grumbling ...
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnerny
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Stephen FryDirected By: Ian Lorimer
Fortunately, you don't have to be anywhere near as clever and quick-witted as Stephen Fry to enjoy the majesty of Q.I.'s second series. Brought together in its entirety in this DVD set, it's that rarest of things: a timeless panel show that can be enjoyed over and over again. What structure there is to Q.I. proves simply to be a platform for questions about obscure topics, and ...
Manufacturer: Warner Music EntertainmentStarring: Stephen Fry, Alan Davies
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Stephen Fry, Hugh LaurieDirected By: Peter Orton, Kevin Bishop (IV), Bob Spiers, Roger Ordish
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Bill Bailey, Rich Hall, Jo Brand
Although now regarded as the opening salvo of a classic series, the original Blackadder series was not considered a great success, either among critics or many viewers, so a major rethink took place when it was recommissioned. On the writing front, future-Four Weddings And A Funeral scribe Richard Curtis was joined by Ben Elton, while the expensive War of the Roses-era sets were ...
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain VideoStarring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry
Manufacturer: Warner Music EntertainmentStarring: Stephen Fry, Alan DaviesDirected By: Ian Lorimer
"Remember, remember the fifth of November," for on this day, in 2020, the minds of the masses shall be set free. So says code-name V (Hugo Weaving), a man on a mission to shake society out of its blank complacent stares in the film V For Vendetta. His tactics, however, are a bit revolutionary to say the least. The world in which V lives is very similar to Orwell's totalitarian dystopia in ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, John Hurt, Stephen Fry
