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History Bites

1998–2004 · 5 seasons

A rapid channel-surf of silly historical sketches that keeps you laughing while quietly puncturing any nostalgia for the past.}{.

Created by
Duncan McKenzie, Rick Green
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Sarah Lafleur, Teresa Pavlinek, Duncan McKenzie
Overview
History Bites was a television series on the History Television network that ran from 1998-2003. 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 representing a channel-surfing viewer who never watched any one sketch for more than a few minutes at a time. Reruns of History Bites are currently being shown on History Television and The Comedy Network.

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Created by
Duncan McKenzie, Rick Green
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Sarah Lafleur, Teresa Pavlinek, Duncan McKenzie
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How it feels

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • media
  • power
  • class
  • violence
  • corruption
Places
None
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
  • mockumentary
  • anthology
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour8
Realism4
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
documentary
Created by
Duncan McKenzie, Rick Green
Written by
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Starring
Sarah Lafleur, Teresa Pavlinek, Duncan McKenzie, Rick Green, Jessica Holmes, Patrick McKenna, Mag Ruffman, Wayne Robson
Length
5 seasons, 101 episodes, 30 min each
Network
History
Languages
English

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