Man Vs Baby, a sequel to the 2022 series Man Vs Bee, sees Bingley swap house-sitting for a new life as a school caretaker – before receiving a lucrative offer to look after a luxury penthouse in London.
But on the last day of the school term, no one collects a baby who starred as baby Jesus in the nativity play, leaving Bingley responsible.
Speaking on BBC’s Graham Norton Show, Atkinson said: “Trevor is a genuinely sweet man, and that’s relatively rare actually in the characters I’ve played.
“Mr Bean is a selfish, self-centred, anarchic child. He’s quite a charmless character.
Atkinson also described his character Edmund Blackadder as “quite a sarcastic, sardonic, humorously negative sort of guy”.
“Even Jonny English, the comedy spy – he’s vain, self-centred, and doesn’t care about anyone else.
“Trevor is a pleasant contrast,” he said.