Horrible Histories

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Pages: 31.

Chapters: Horrible Science, Murderous Maths, Horribly Famous, Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans, Horrible Geography, The Knowledge, Dead Famous, Killer Puzzles, Foul Football, America's Funny But True History, Boring Bible, Top Ten, Terry Deary's Tales, Twisted Tales, The Spark Files, Time Detectives, List of The Horrible Histories books, Wild Lives, Truly Terrible Tales.

Excerpt: Horrible Histories is an award winning British children's television series based on the Terry Deary book series of the same name.

The first series was thirteen episodes long, and was broadcast from 16 April to 9 July 2009 on CBBC on BBC One.

A second series, also of thirteen episodes, aired from 31 May 2010 to 27 July 2010.

A Christmas special was broadcast on 17 December 2010, and a third series started on 30 May 2011 on CBBC.

A spin-off game show entitled Gory Games has started airing.

Also a second spin off show began airing on the 19th June 2011, hosted by Stephen Fry the show looks back on the best sketches of the show during its three seasons.

In 2009 a live-action television series based on the books by Terry Deary was made by Lion Television and shown on BBC One and CBBC in the United Kingdom.

The production of the television series followed a relaunch of Deary's books, and Lisa Edwards, editorial director of Scholastic UK stated: "the TV show will be a great addition to the perennially popular Horrible Histories property." Before the series went on air, BBC executive producer Kim Shillinglaw said: "Horrible Histories will be stuffed full of blood, battles and black humour - and will also give children some of the great facts and narratives of history." Lisa Edwards, the editorial director explained: "Following the hugely successful re-launch of the books this year, the TV show will be a great addition to the perennially popular...