The long-running kids’s sketch present Horrible Histories might be rewarded for its “extraordinary cultural and social affect” with a particular Bafta Award subsequent month.
Bafta cited the “pleasure, enrichment and hilarity it continues to deliver to individuals of all ages” because it started 15 years in the past, in addition to its “legacy as a springboard for British comedic expertise and affect on the college curriculum”.
Primarily based on the best-selling books by Terry Deary, Horrible Histories has been one of many UK’s hottest kids’s TV programmes since its debut in 2009.
Bafta chair Sara Putt mentioned: “Horrible Histories has reworked conventional concepts of what instructional tv must be.”
Spanning 11 sequence and a number of spin-offs, the BBC present adopted the books’ unconventional and interesting strategy to historical past, with titles resembling Groovy Greeks, Horrible Tudors and Vile Victorians.
Lion Tv, which produces the sequence, mentioned it was “thrilled” by the particular Bafta Award.
“By means of comedy, hideous historic details and a few banging tunes, we hope we’ve introduced pleasure, laughter and – perhaps – impressed new generations of younger historians,” govt producer Richard Bradley mentioned.
The present has already gained 9 Bafta Youngsters’s Awards and a British Comedy Award. Internationally, its honours embrace an Worldwide Emmy for finest children factual & leisure.
Through the years, Horrible Histories’ common forged members have been joined by an extended checklist of visitor stars, together with Rowan Atkinson, Meera Syal, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Rosie Jones and David Baddiel.
The makers will obtain the honour as a part of a particular presentation on 29 November.
The BBC additionally lately introduced an addition to the ‘Horrible’ TV model: Horrible Science.
