History Bites (1998)

Genre

documentary television program

Country

Canada

Length

5 seasons, 101 episodes

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Canadian series that imagines what TV would look like if it had existed throughout history. Each episode focuses on a major historical event and presents mock news, sports, and entertainment segments about it.

educationalhumorousfast-pacedsatiricallightheartednostalgicsketch-basedwry

What happens

History Bites is a television series on History Television that ran from 1998 to 2004. It was a prime-time program. Created by Rick Green, History Bites explored what would be on television if the medium had been around for the last 5,000 years of human history. Typically, a significant historical event was chosen and mock news, sports and entertainment programming was created around it. Each episode included several segments of Green offering historical background of the episode's chosen era and otherwise showed frequent shifts from one comedy sketch to another (as well as returning to certain sketches repeatedly) representing a channel-surfing viewer who never watched any one sketch for more than a few minutes at a time. Furthermore, the theme of the series is about debunking misplaced nostalgia about historical periods by illustrating their often absurd injustices and brutal realities to modern sensibilities. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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