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Rowan Atkinson has spoken cautiously about bringing back his classic sitcom character Edmund Blackadder, saying it "certainly" wouldn't be "impossible."

Atkinson co-created and starred in Blackadder, the historical but almost entirely fictional sitcom which followed his scheming antihero through different periods of British history. Co-created by Richard Curtis, it also starred Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Stephen Fry, and Miranda Richardson, and originally ran for four seasons between 1983 and 1989.

In a new interview with the Radio Times, Mr Bean and Johnny English star Atkinson admitted that he didn’t "actually like the process of making anything – with the possible exception of Blackadder because the responsibility for making that series funny was on many shoulders."

The four original seasons of Blackadder were set at the end of the British Middle Ages, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and in 1917 in the trenches of the First World War, respectively. The cast reunited for a 1999 short film, Blackadder: Back & Forth, which had a time-traveling storyline and was commissioned especially for screenings at London's Millennium Dome.

After saying a Blackadder comeback “certainly” wasn’t “impossible,” Atkinson added: "That’s about as optimistic as I can be, and I'd rather not speculate on when it could be set. But Blackadder represented the creative energy we all had in the '80s. To try to replicate that 30 years on wouldn’t be easy."

In the meantime – possibly – you can relive this hilarious (and very eloquently told) anecdote from Atkinson's 2018 appearance on The Graham Norton Show.

Would you like to see more Blackadder, or is it best left in the past?