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Regular Bleeding Cool readers may have heard me go on abot how the TV version of Horrible Histories is one of the greatest contrbutions to modern British popular culture in recent decades A kids educational programme made up of comedy sketches set across human history, and some killer songs to boot, it put together a[...]

I first became properly aware of Jim Howick, as many British parents and children did, through his star comedy performance over five years of the sketch show Horrible Histories His King Richard III still sticks out "Can you imagine it, I'm the last Plantagenet" As does his role as Douglas Barder in the history of the Battle Of[...]

Bill, a comedy about Shakespeare's missing years tells the story of how he moved from being a member of a lutist boy band called Mortal Coil (he shuffled off, obviously) to becoming the world's greatest playwright, by way of a Catholic plot to kill the Queen. From the acting and writing troupe who brought Britain the utterly[...]

It was called Horrible Histories and it was extraordinary It won a BAFTA Children's Awards with its first series in 2009 and then won Best Sketch Show in the British Comedy Awards the next year, beating all the shows meant for adults It was truly brilliant, irreverent, silly, clever, and often moving, representing the history of[...]

And for my older daughter, emphasised her appreciation for "the actor". And there are plenty of familiar faces, though mostly for a British audience, three from Horrible Histories have roles, folk from All At Sea turn up, Matt Lucas plays a wonderfully loquacious Cokk-er-ney cab driver, as well as the now-internationally renowned Hugh Bonneville and the[...]

You may have seen me express my love for the Children's BBC show Horrible Histories on Bleeding Cool before Well that show that educated both myself and my children about the everyday Tudor use for excrement and won every award going in the process came to an end last year, They'd basically run out of[...]

A second series has aired and a third with Karen Gillen is on the way. Available on Region 2 DVD now. The Revolution Will Be Televised [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mh39H4hBzc[/youtube] A sketch show that often hijacked real events to play out its silliness, involving real politicians being leapt upon in public and left to counter the satirical mess placed in their hands. First[...]

My kids watch BBC's Horrible Histories, on the CBBC channel and then again again on the iPlayer It's one of those kids TV shows that pretty much justifies the licence fee in one A series of comedy sketches based on history, obsessed with the gorier details and especially anything flatulent Each episode has a parody[...]