Monty Python

Doing a sword and sorcery show is hard. Doing a comedy is also hard. Doing an actually funny show with people on quests and living in castles and being the chosen one and having sex with 300 dudes is really hard. And this show succeeded, I was quite pleasantly surprised. Kudos Comedy Central, kudos.
Después de ser uno de los protagonistas de la serie juvenil The Class o meterse en la piel de Leónidas y lucir músculos en la parodia cinematográfica Casi 300 (Meet the spartans, 2008), Sean Maguire protagoniza, de nuevo en el papel de héroe y en la misma línea cómica, esta divertidísima miniserie de seis episodios que satiriza como no se había visto hasta ahora en televisión, el género de fantasía épica medieval del que en la actualidad La leyenda del Buscador es su mejor valedor.

Medieval Lives…Knights in shining armor, damsels in distress, pious monks….Nonsense. The Middle Ages were far more entertaining than that.

Paul Murton takes another tour of Scotland's lochs.

To mark the 100th anniversary of Dada, Vic Reeves takes us on an irreverent trip into the world of the influential avant-garde art movement.

Medieval Lives…Knights in shining armor, damsels in distress, pious monks…Nonsense. The Middle Ages were far more entertaining than that.

Michael revisits his TV travels and fans reflect on his achievement.

British personality Jeremy Clarkson, host of Top Gear, brings you Heaven and Hell, a critical review of the best and worst cars in the automotive world. Clarkson trawls the whole of "car-dom" to bring you seven great cars and truffles the undergrowth looking for seven automotive disasters. The good ones - the Ferraris, the Porsches and the Aston Martins - are driven to within an inch of their lives on the track. The bad ones are killed. Sawn in half. Hung, drawn and quartered. They're hammered and blown to pieces with dynamite and their skeletons left in the open to rot. There's even some time for a game of car jousting.

What did the Egyptians do when they weren't building pyramids, and just what are hieroglyphics about? Terry Jones - of Monty Python fame - learns that Egyptian women were on equal footing with men in all aspects of society, including wages and property ownership. Paper, papyrus, originated in Egypt, allowing for the development of the sciences, art and literature. These discoveries establish how attached to life the ancient Egyptians were and discards the supposition that because of their elaborate tombs, they were more focused on death and the afterlife…