Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry (2011)

Genre

comedy television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a compilation series that takes sketches from the children's show Horrible Histories and re-edits them for adults. Stephen Fry hosts and provides extra historical context between the comedy sketches.

wittyinformativeamusingfast-pacedsillyeducationallightheartedirreverent

What happens

Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry is the name given to the six-part re-version of the hit children's sketch comedy Horrible Histories for an adult audience. Broadcast in a Sunday-night time slot from 19 June 2011 to 31 July 2011 on BBC One, the programme features a compilation of sketches from the first two series of Horrible Histories, as chosen by that show's producers. As a concession to the more mature audience, comedian and QI presenter Stephen Fry replaced puppet Rattus Rattus as host, presenting "added insight and historical nuggets". Producer Caroline Norris, who also served as Horrible Histories' series producer, described the recut as an experiment in "what we would do if [Horrible Histories] was in primetime". From a production standpoint, all that was needed was to choose the sketches that seemed most suitable for an adult audience and then to write appropriate linking material for Fry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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