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The last five episodes were not aired on TV until the following spring but were available on DVD from November. Between September 5 and September 23, the BBC ran a competition to write a sketch for Horrible Histories [ 6 ] with the winning entry by Abigail Innes (age 8) from Hull being filmed as part of the seventh series. [ 7 ]
The series had two special episodes: the first one being Football with Alex Scott, a special where guest star footballer Alex Scott appeared and hosted her own episode and recounted skits in the show about football from seasons from the original 2009 Horrible Histories show and the sixth season of the 2015 reboot.
It has been suggested that this article be merged with List of Horrible Histories (2015 TV series) episodes. (Discuss) Proposed since December 2024. Horrible Histories is a children's live-action historical and musical sketch-comedy TV series based on the book series of the same name written by Terry Deary. The comedy series first hit screens in 2009 and is now in its 15th year, with more than ...
Horrible Geography is a series of children's non-fiction books written by Anita Ganeri, illustrated by Mike Phillips, and published in the UK by Scholastic. It is a spin-off from the Horrible Histories series, and is designed to get children interested in geography .
[61] However, writing after the final episode, Simon Hoggart in The Spectator noted that "There has been some whipped-up controversy about Horrible Histories", adding that "where the books make a rudimentary attempt to teach history as a series of interconnected events, the television show is basically gags, chiefly about defecation, gluttony ...
Horrible Histories was a British sketch comedy and musical television series, based on the children's history books of the same name. 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.
The episodes are a mix of comedy and geography, [4] with each episode answering a short geographical question, often involving maps. [4] The style has been compared to Horrible Histories [2] [3] and the pair cite their inspiration as Monty Python. [4] The videos feature deadpan, split-second visual gags, and comic sketches. [3] [5]
In November 2021, it was reported that the fourth episode of the fifteenth season would be titled "The Gang Replaces Dee With a Monkey", and was to be directed by Todd Biermann and written by main cast member Glenn Howerton and Nina Pedrad. This was Biermann's 16th directing credit, Howerton's 43rd writing credit and Pedrad's 1st writing credit.