Horrible Histories is a British children’s live-action historical and musical sketch comedy television series. It is based on the bestselling books of the same name by Terry Deary. The show was produced for CBBC by Lion Television with Citrus Television and ran from 2009 to 2013 for five series of thirteen half-hour episodes. A new series of special episodes began airing in 2015, featuring a new format and cast. It has been named among the greatest British children’s television series of all time.
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Horrible Histories is a British children’s live-action historical and musical sketch comedy television series. It is based on the bestselling books of the same name by Terry Deary. The show was produced for CBBC by Lion Television with Citrus Television and ran from 2009 to 2013 for five series of thirteen half-hour episodes, with additional one-off seasonal and Olympic specials. A new series of special episodes began airing in 2015, featuring a new format and cast. Although the original series has ended, it continues to be frequently repeated on the CBBC Channel daily. In 2011, a spin-off game show, Horrible History: Gory Games, was launched on CBBC. In the same year, the original show was repackaged for main channel BBC One with Stephen Fry, with Fry replacing the puppet, Rattus Rattus, as presenter. The series was a critical and ratings success, eventually gaining a wide all ages audience through its non-condescending and inclusive approach. It has won numerous domestic and international awards and has been named among the greatest British children’s television series of all time. The creative team was largely recruited from the mainstream adult UK comedy scene. They took inspiration from such quintessentially British historical-comedy classics as Blackadder and the Monty Python films. The core precept of the core franchise is the nasty-out-of-style comic humour and bodily violence which frequently involved in the programme. The black rat puppet Rattus rattus, appears in short bridging segments, explaining the factual basis for each sketch.
He also appears in several small roles in the subsequent series, although he would eventually contribute to the writing as well as appearing in severalsmall roles. The original series was first published by Scholastic UK in 1993 and since expanded into a multimedia franchise. The books are intended to pique young children’s interest in history via short, factually based but humorously told anecdotes highlighting aspects of the subject not usually covered in more traditional educational sources. The BBC readily agreed to this cross-demographic experiment, mostly relying on their contacts in the adult comedy community. They sought to make the best use of the material as possible in a programme aimed at young children—insofar as possible was possible. They also approved the adoption of the nastier bits of material in a way that would not otherwise patronise their patronise the children or otherwise adapt to the humour to children. They then introduced a comedy style on parodies of modern media conventions as a means of making these historical details more immediately accessible. To do full justice to the material, Dominic Brigstocke and Dominic Norris used contacts to put together a creative team consisting of veterans of the adult UK community. They then developed, in consultation with CBBC executives, a new series relying on familiar media conventions. The new series began airing on the BBC One channel in 2015 and features a new host, Stephen Fry. The series has been described as one of the greatest children’s television series in the world.
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