Surprise reason Ben Elton saved 'dynamite' Blackadder from cancellation after just one series

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With viewers in the tens of millions, the 1980s gave us some of the most iconic sitcoms of all time. And now, a new book by author and film historian Robert Sellers - Still Laughing: How the Sitcom Kept Britain Smiling in the 80s - explores the decade that saw situation comedies averaging 12–13 million TV viewers - and sometimes approaching 20 million. Guy Siner, who played Lieutenant Gruber, in ‘Allo ‘Allo! said: “That is a hallmark of being British, that we could have a good laugh and laugh