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[edit] Current Broadcasts

Still playing on the Comedy Network? Okay, I'll take your word for it, though I can't find History Bites on their website. BryanEkers 01:10, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

On Rogers Cable here in Toronto it plays a total of 3 times Saturdays and 3 times Sundays, on the Comedy Network and History Television. Try http://tvlistings2.zap2it.com/zipcode.asp?partner_id=national for listing in your area. - Mcasey666 20:39, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I often see it on the Comedy Network through ExpressVu. Kc4 23:52, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] It's been done

A similar kind of show was Michael Palin's The Complete and Utter History of Britain, first aired in 1969. "...To replay history as if television had been around at the time: interviewing the vital characters in the dressing-room after the Battle of Hastings; having Samuel Pepys present a TV chat-show," etc. I bet there are others. - Mcasey666 20:43, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Patrick Watson had a show in 1970 called Witness to Yesterday and Steve Allen had a 1977 show called Meeting of Minds in which they "interviewed" actors playing various historical figures, but only History Bites could have an episode about Julius Caesar in which he talks with a Boston accent and his assassination is the subject of conspiracy-theory buffs (or, in this case, anti-conspiracy-theory buffs who believe against all evidence that that murder was committed by a "lone knifeman"), interspersed with footage of Martha Stewart giving advice on keeping your vomitorium clean. The show is as much a parody of modern pop culture as history, and I watch it every chance I get. BryanEkers 15:36, 4 April 2006 (UTC)