History Bites

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History Bites
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Created by	Rick Green
Written by	Duncan McKenzie Danny DiTata Jeremy Winkels Eric Lunsky Amy McKenzie David Ravvin (season 1)
Presented by	Rick Green
Starring	Rick Green Ron Pardo Janet van de Graaf Teresa Pavlinek Peter Oldring Sarah Lafleur Danny DiTata Jeremy Winkels Eric Lunsky Amy McKenzie Duncan McKenzie Sam Kalilieh
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	101 (including pilot) + 6 Specials (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	David C. Smith
Production company	S&S Productions
Original release
Network	History Television
Release	October 1, 1998 (1998-10-01) – July 31, 2004 (2004-07-31)
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History Bites is a television series on the History Television network that ran from 1998 to 2004. It was a prime-time program.^[1] 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 (as well as returning to certain sketches repeatedly) representing a channel-surfing viewer who never watched any one sketch for more than a few minutes at a time. Furthermore, the theme of the series is about debunking misplaced nostalgia about historical periods by illustrating their often absurd injustices and brutal realities to modern sensibilities.