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Horrible Histories Series 6: British Comedy Guide Award for Best Sketch Show Won [13] 2016 Horrible Histories Special: Crooked King John and Magna Carta: Kidscreen Award for Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series Won [14] 2016 Horrible Histories Special: Awesome Alfred the Great: Broadcast Award for Best Children's Programme Nominated [15] 2015
Horrible Histories is a multi-award-winning British children's live-action historical and musical sketch comedy television series, based on the bestselling book series by Terry Deary. The show focuses on the dark, gruesome or scatological aspects of British and other Western world history, spanning from the Stone Age to the post- World War II era.
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.
An executive producer of Horrible Histories has spoken about how the past keeps getting “re-examined” by the series as it celebrates 15 years on the BBC.
Horrible Histories is an educational entertainment franchise encompassing many media including books, magazines, audio books, stage shows, TV shows, and more.. In 2013, Lisa Edwards, UK publishing and commercial director of Scholastic Corporation, described Horrible Histories as one of the company's "crown jewels", and said it is at an "advanced stage of evolution".
Along with the five other members of the Horrible Histories starring cast, which includes Ben Willbond, Martha Howe-Douglas, Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby and Laurence Rickard, Howick is also the co-creator, -writer and -star of Yonderland, an eight-part family fantasy comedy series that premiered on Sky One on 10 November 2013. [6]
Along with the five other members of the Horrible Histories starring cast, Rickard is also the co-creator, writer, and star of Yonderland, a family/fantasy/comedy series that premiered on Sky One on 10 November 2013. A second series was released in 2015 and a third has since been commissioned and began filming in early 2016. [5]