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Stars: Sebastian Croft, Emilia Jones, Nick Frost, Craig Roberts, Kate Nash, Kim Cattrall, Derek Jacobi, Rupert Graves, Warwick Davis, Alexander Armstrong, Kevin Bishop, Chris Addison | Written by Caroline Norris, Giles Pilbrow | Directed by Dominic Brigstocke

Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans is the long-awaited feature film version of the infamous British television show of the same name. The first of presumably many spin-offs, Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans focuses on as the title description states the Romans. The film follows Atti (Sebastian Croft) who gets into trouble with the new emperor Nero (Craig Roberts) and as punishment is sent to Britain, Aka the Stain. Atti is soon taken captive by Orla (Emilia Jones), a young wannabe warrior, while in the background the rise of Boudicca (Kate Nash) against the Romans begins.

First and foremost Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans, for the intended target audience, is a blast. The...

Homework for Dominic Brigstocke, the director of “Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans,” included watching Monty Python and speaking to “Blackadder” co-creator Richard Curtis as he and the team went about taking a hit kids’ show from the small to big screen.

“There’s a great tradition of the British making fun of their history,” Brigstocke said. “We looked at various other comedy version of history, including ‘Monty Python’s The Life of Brian.’ It was some of the scenes out of that that helped us realize how you can adapt sketch comedy to [film] and tell jokes about history.”

Brigstocke noted a number of nods to Python in his film, which comes 50 years after the famous comedy troupe was formed and premieres in the U.K. on Thursday. “The stoning in ‘Life of Brian’ was one of the inspiring scenes where you learned quite a lot about Roman history –that...

Based on the best-selling children’s book series the Horrible Histories lot brought their grimy, grisly take on the past to the West End for the world premiere of Horrible Histories The Move – Rotten Romans. Walking the red carpet were Lee Mack, Warwick Davis, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rupert Graves, Derek Jacobi, Alexander Armstrong, Craig Roberts, Emilia Jones, Sebastian Croft, Tony Gardner, director Dominic Brigstocke and screenwriter Jessica Swale.

An all star cast including Kim Catrall and Nick Frost stand with Kate Nash, Rupert Graves and Alex Macqueen alongside the mighty booming intonations of Sir Derek Jacobi in the film.

Colin Hart and Brent Hart were on the red carpet and conducted these interviews.

Horrible Histories The Movie: Rotten Romans is out in UK & Irish cinemas on the 26th of July.

Horrible Histories The Movie: Rotten Romans World Premiere Interviews

Led by rising stars Sebastian Croft (Game Of Thrones) as Roman teenager...

Altitude Films has debuted a new trailer for British comedy ‘Horrible Histories The Movie: Rotten Romans’ featuring a stellar cast of British talent.

Led by rising stars Sebastian Croft (Game Of Thrones) as Roman teenager Atti and Emilia Jones (Patrick) as his Celtic rival Orla, Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans features an all-star cast including Nick Frost (Fighting With My Family) as Orla’s father Arghus, Craig Roberts (Submarine) as Emperor Nero and Kim Cattrall (Sex And The City) as Nero’s mother Agrippina. Additional cast includes Brit Award-winning artist Kate Nash (Glow) as Boudicca, Rupert Graves (Sherlock) as Governor-General Paulinus, Alex Macqueen (The Inbetweeners) as Nero’s assistant Sycophantus and Sir Derek Jacobi reprises his iconic role as Claudius.

Based on global publisher Scholastic’s beloved best-selling and award-winning children’s historical comedy book series Horrible Histories by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown, award-winning director Dominic Brigstocke...

Production is under way on Altitude Film Entertainment and Citrus Films’ family movie Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans, based on the popular children’s book series by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown.

Shooting now on location in the UK and Bulgaria, the film will cast the antics of the Roman Empire in a comedic light. It will follow Atti, a Roman teenager with brains but very little brawn. When one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero, he is forced to join the army and is sent to miserable, cold, wet Britain where the natives are revolting – quite literally. Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior.

Dominic Brigstocke, director of the TV version of the series, will make his feature directorial debut. Script comes from Jessica Swale together with Giles Pilbrow and Caroline Norris.

Nick Frost, Craig Roberts, Kim Cattrall among cast.

Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans, the feature adaptation of the children’s book series, has cast Sebastian Croft and Emilia Jones as the two leads and is now shooting on location in the UK and Bulgaria.

Nick Frost, Craig Roberts, Kim Cattrall, Kate Nash, Rupert Graves, Alex Macqueen and Derek Jacobi also feature in the feature debut of Dominic Brigstocke.The film is a humorous take on Roman Britain.

Altitude Film Entertainment is producing, alongside Citrus Films, and will launch sales at the forthcoming American Film Market where it will be present early footage.

Greenlit means a project is officially a go, so all you have to do is follow these leads to stay up to date. You never know where you’ll find an opportunity to land an audition! “Horrible Histories”Long-running and much-loved children’s TV series “Horrible Histories” is moving to the big screen, with a first feature shooting this year. Veteran TV comedy director Dominic Brigstocke is directing as he did for the series and writer Jessica Swale is confirmed to be scripting. “Love & Friendship” casting director Colin Jones is attached to the project, which begins filming soon. “The Mallorca Files”New daytime TV crime drama “The Mallorca Files” (Working Title) follows British and German detectives in Mallorca and the conflict caused by their starkly different approaches to policing on the island. For BBC One, it’s scripted by Dan Sefton and casting is by Vicki Thompson Casting. Episodes...

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It's the final entry in Wesley's top 100 Christmas TV episodes of all time list, numbers 20 to 1. Merry Christmas to all!

Read entries 100 - 81 here, entries 80 - 61 here, entries 60 - 41 here, and entries 40 - 21 here.

Since the medium’s infancy, viewers have enjoyed sharing holidays with their favourite television characters. We grow invested in our friends on screen over the years; spending Christmas with them is a rite of passage, a chance for us to share tradition from our world with the fictional ones we see on screen. Some shows embrace the season wholeheartedly, characters in good spirits and enjoying the trappings of the season; others skew a little darker, bringing the more oppressive, burdensome side of the holidays to life. Either way, Christmas episodes tend to demonstrate the strengths of our favourite series, and it’s long been a festive ritual of mine to wheel out old...

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An agreement has been signed with Tom Edge to adapt Operation Slut, while a pilot for Medics has been green lit to shoot next month.

"Medics is a laugh-out-loud sitcom that perfectly combines adolescent humour with fast-paced drama while Operation Slut is a hilarious satire of modern-day relationships - both of which sit perfectly within our channel portfolio," said by Jill Offman, managing director of Comedy Central UK and senior vice president of international content at Comedy Central.

Operation Slut was originally written by Taii K. Austin (Underemployed, Nurse Jackie, Scrubs, Ugly Betty) and will be adapted by British writer Edge (Pramface, Threesome, The Midnight Beast) for international broadcast.

The show is about 30-year-old marriage-focused "neurotic do-gooder" Ivy who on being proposed to is not ready to settle down, and instead embarks on...