Horrible Histories to receive special Bafta Award

The long-running children’s sketch amusement Horrible Histories volition beryllium rewarded for its "extraordinary taste and societal impact" with a peculiar Bafta Award adjacent month.

Bafta cited the "joy, enrichment and hilarity it continues to bring to radical of each ages" since it began 15 years ago, arsenic good arsenic its "legacy arsenic a springboard for British comedic endowment and interaction connected the schoolhouse curriculum".

Based connected the best-selling books by Terry Deary, Horrible Histories has been 1 of the UK's astir fashionable children's TV programmes since its debut successful 2009.

Bafta seat Sara Putt said: "Horrible Histories has transformed accepted ideas of what acquisition tv should be."

Spanning 11 bid and aggregate spin-offs, the BBC amusement followed the books' unconventional and engaging attack to history, with titles specified arsenic Groovy Greeks, Terrible Tudors and Vile Victorians.

Lion Television, which produces the series, said it was "thrilled" by the peculiar Bafta Award.

"Through comedy, hideous humanities facts and immoderate banging tunes, we anticipation we’ve brought joy, laughter and - possibly - inspired caller generations of young historians," enforcement shaper Richard Bradley said.

The amusement has already won 9 Bafta Children's Awards and a British Comedy Award. Internationally, its honours see an International Emmy for champion kids factual & entertainment.

Over the years, Horrible Histories' regular formed members person been joined by a agelong database of impermanent stars, including Rowan Atkinson, Meera Syal, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Rosie Jones and David Baddiel.

The makers volition person the honour arsenic portion of a peculiar presumption connected 29 November.

The BBC besides precocious announced an summation to the 'Horrible' TV brand: Horrible Science.