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Horrible Histories: Gory Games

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Horrible Histories: Gory Games
GenreChildren's Game show
Presented byDave Lamb
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series5
No. of episodes66
Production
Running time25 minutes
Production companiesCitrus Television and Lion Television
Original release
NetworkCBBC
Release30 May 2011 (2011-05-30) –
26 January 2018 (2018-01-26)
Related
Horrible Histories (2009)
Horrible Histories (2015)

Horrible Histories: Gory Games is a children's game show, co-produced by Citrus Television and Lion Television for CBBC, that debuted in 2011. It is a spin-off of hit children's sketch comedy Horrible Histories and is a product of the same creative team.

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History

The show featured music by Matt Katz and Richie Webb, produced at Noisegate.[1] The gameshow's participants are aged between 8 and 12.[2]

The gameshow was adapted into an iOS/Android app, allowing players to play along with the contestants. It was available at Google Play or the Apple App Store. The premiere app by the creative tea, SyncScreen was in charge of app design and user experience, and they used their proprietary SyncScreen Framework API technology. The app also used Civolution’s SyncNow Automatic Content Recognition, which increased the synchronicity of the experience.[3] It was the "first mainstream "second screen" apps for kids", and was designed to be used by children while they were watching the show.[4]

The app was launched in 2014 when Series 3 (2013) was re-edited under the new format. Series 1 (2011) went the same way in 2016. New episodes were made under the play-along format in Series 4 (2016), but by Series 5 (2018) the app had been removed from the App Store. After Series 5 (2018) completed broadcast, Series 4 (2016) shown again, but was re-edited to remove the play-along function.

Gameplay

Gory Games is co-hosted by comedian Dave Lamb and Rattus Rattus, the rat puppet who also "hosts" the parent series. The show revolves around "horrible facts".[5] Gameplay involves three child contestants (called "Horrible Historians") trying to obtain "Year Spheres" by completing either a historically-themed physical challenge or a quiz. Each Year Sphere contains a year which is either A.D. or B.C. If it is A.D., the year is added to the player's score at the end of the show; if B.C., it is subtracted from it. The player with the highest overall score after three rounds is the winner.

These Year Sphere's are:

The games are divided into six categories: "Brainy", "Messy", "Scary", "Silly", "Gory" and "Death" (hosted by Death himself). Quiz questions manifest as either multiple-choice or true-or-false questions and may be asked either by Dave, Rattus, a live-action or animated character from that period, or—in Series 3—Death. "Prop questions" are also asked.

Similarly to its parent series, the games are grouped under randomly selected historical eras or civilizations based on Terry Deary's original books. To date the eras used in Gory Games are:

As from series 3, at the end of the show, the two runners up ended up having to go home through the Time Sewer which was a slide leading to a tank of thick brown gunge.

Cast members from the parent show make frequent cameo appearances as the historical questioners, as does Horrible Histories author Terry Deary.[6]

Reception

Julia Raeside of The Guardian commented that the show has "no bleepy, flashy nonsense", and added that it "would have enthralled 20 years ago and is all the better for it."[7]

The Guardian deemed the Gory Games TV Play-along app the 25th best app for kids for 2014, deeming it impressive that the technology that allows at-home children to play along with contestants in real-time also worked with repeats.[4]

Awards and nominations

In 2013, the show was nominated for a Children's BAFTA award in the category of Entertainment.[8][9]

Transmissions

Series Start date End date Episodes
1 30 May 2011 2 August 2011 13
2 15 April 2012 8 July 2012 13
3 27 May 2013 6 August 2013 15
4 6 June 2016 24 June 2016 15
5 15 January 2018 26 January 2018 10

References

  1. ^ "July 7, 2011 Archives". Noisegate Media. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  2. ^ "CBBC Horrible Histories Gory Games Application - Brynmill Primary School". Swansea Edunet. 19 October 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Hands on with Horrible Histories' Gory Games - News". Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  4. ^ a b Dredge, Stuart (24 December 2014). "The best iPad apps for kids of 2014". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  5. ^ Preston, John (5 June 2011). "Terry Deary interview". The Telegraph. London.
  6. ^ "Horrible Histories writer Terry Deary to be torchbearer". BBC News. 9 January 2012.
  7. ^ Raeside, Julia (30 May 2011). "Tonight's TV highlights". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  8. ^ "Wolfblood leads 2013 Bafta Children's nominations - CBBC Newsround". 22 October 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  9. ^ "British Academy Children's Awards nominees revealed". Retrieved 13 September 2016.

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