What is "blackadder"

n. an English surname

Blackadder is a series of four BBC1 period British sitcoms, along with several one-off installments. All television episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as the anti-hero Edmund Blackadder, and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series was set in a different historical period, with the two protagonists accompanied by different characters, though several reappear in one series or another, for example Melchett ( Stephen Fry) and Lord Flashheart ( Rik Mayall).

The first series, The Black Adder, was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton. The shows were produced by John Lloyd. In 2000, the fourth series, Blackadder Goes Forth, ranked at 16 in the " 100 Greatest British Television Programmes", a list created by the British Film Institute. Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses. It was also ranked as the 20th-best TV show of all time by Empire magazine.

Blackadder is a British television show starring Rowan Atkinson.

Blackadder or Blackader may also refer to:

• Blackadder, Scottish Borders, a Scottish village
• Blackadder (clipper), a clipper ship built in 1870
• Blackadder Water, a river in the Scottish Borders
• Clan Blackadder, a Scottish clan
• Blackadder baronets, a Scottish baronetcy
• Blackadder ITC, an OpenType font
• Blackadder (whisky bottler), an independent bottler of Scotch whisky
• Blackadder (named data networking), open source named data networking software

Blackadder is an independent bottler of single malt Scotch whisky. It was founded in 1995 by Robin Tucek and John Lamond, and named after historic Scottish figure Bishop John Blackadder. The company's bottlings are generally from single casks, are neither chill-filtered nor colored, and are bottled in clear glass to allow customers to see the natural color of the whisky.

Bottling series offered by Blackadder include the standard single-cask single malt whiskies, the "Limited Edition" range, the sherry-cask "Old Man of Hoy", the "Auld Edinburgh" range, and two alternate labelings used in place of the Blackadder name: "Aberdeen Distillers" and "The Clydesdale Original Scotch Whisky Co. Ltd."

Since 2000, Blackadder has also offered the "Raw Cask" series, which consists of whisky bottled directly from the cask, without even mechanical filtering. The lack of filtering leaves some detritus in the bottles including fragments of cask wood.

In 2014 Blackadder introduced a range of whiskies called Black Snake. These whiskies are produced using a Solera system, where aged single malts are placed into either an Oloroso or PX Sherry cask for further aging. When deemed ready, 2/3 of the cask is drawn to be bottled and the cask is replenished with more single malt for further maturation. Each draw for bottling is known as a "Venom".

Blackadder Whiskies are available in a number of countries, particularly Japan, Taiwan and Europe. In the US, Blackadder Whiskies are imported by Purple Valley Imports USA.

Blackadder is free software networking software under the GNU General Public License. It is an implementation of an information-centric networking environment. It exports a publish-subscribe service model to applications, which allows for publish and subscribe operations in a directed acyclic graph-based information model.

Blackadder won the European Commissions' FIA Award in 2013. It is produced by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme funded PURSUIT project, with a consortium consisting of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Cambridge University, Ericsson, Essex University and others.