Game of Thrones: SE02 EP02 Review: The Night Lands
I’m not Ned Stark – I understand how this game is played – Tyrion
The Borgias return for a second season
Billed as the ‘world’s first crime family’ the Borgias second season begins airing tonight on Showtime in the United States and Bravo in Canada.
Jousting the latest extreme sport with Full Metal Jousting
If you are looking for a sport with true medieval roots, the new TV show Full Metal Jousting might be for you.
Review: Full Metal Jousting, Season 1, Episode 1: “Army Strong in Armour – Arena, meet Marine!”
In this show, a win is truly earned; no one is voting anyone off the island here. No one cares who you are because in the end, all that matters is that you can stay on your horse and beat your opponent.
Game of Thrones: SE02 EP01 Review: The North Remembers
This episode focused on leadership and power. Cersei makes a miserable attempt to keep rumours at bay while Joff wantonly doles out cruel punishment for his amusment making season one’s’ Viserys Targaryen look like Mother Teresa.
Game of Thrones Season 1 Reviews
Game of Thrones Season 1: Catch up on all the episodes of the first season of Game of Thrones with our video and written reviews.
Battle Castle: Malbork
The fifth episode of Battle Castle features the castle of Malbork, in Poland, and the siege by the forces of Poland and Lithuania, led by King Władysław II Jagiełło, against the Teutonic Knights, who were led by Heinrich von Plauen, in 1410.
New TV drama – “Vikings” – to be filmed in Ireland and Northern Europe
The History Channel in the US and History Television in Canada have announced they will be airing a scripted drama series, ‘Vikings’.
Holy Dover!: Castles, Crossbows and the Poor Man’s Trebuchet on the third fantastic episode of Battle Castle
Dan Snow is back again for another awesome adventure in Dover. Relieve the medieval excitement of last night’s third episode of Battle Castle!
Tweeting History: Social Media meets Mummies and Moats
Last week, dozens of Toronto-area bloggers gathered at a local bar, bringing with them their iPhones and Blackberries. Amidst watching Viking re-enactors fight it out on stage and playing trivia, the group got ready for the main event of the evening – watching a tv show about the Pergamon and Neues Museums in Berlin, Germany, and tweeting history.
‘Battle Castle’ lays siege on-air and online
The show is an interactive, trans-medieval journey into castle engineering, bloody siegecraft, and epic clashes that transform mortals into legends. Hosted by UK celebrity Dan Snow, the show takes its viewers over six one-hour timeslots to Syria, France, Spain, Wales, Poland and England delving into the stories of six fascinating castles.
Battle Castle: Crac des Chevaliers
Trebuchets, earthquakes, Crusades and sweeping panoramas – you don’t want to miss a single minute of this fantastic first episode of Battle Castle!
Battle Castle – Interview with Nicole Tomlinson
I was so fascinated by the stories of the lives of the people and artifacts associated with these strongholds that I didn’t realize I actually wasn’t learning much about the castles themselves. The more I delved into researching the series, the more I wanted to see the technologies that built them (and sometimes brought them down) jump out of my imagination and into action.
Battle Castle – Interview with Ian Herring
In 21 years of filmmaking, I have never worked on a project where professional and personal interests have come together such an authentic way.
See Castles in 3D!
Medieval history fans get an online treat from the makers of Battle Castle – dozens of photos and videos of castles in 3D!
Museum Secrets, Season 2: Episode 3 Preview: National Archaeological Museum of Athens
Airs Thursday, January 26 at 10PM ET/PT on HISTORY TELEVISION CANADA
Museum Secrets, Season 2: Episode 2 Preview: American Museum of Natural History
From dinosaurs to meteorites to the origins of the human species, the American Museum of Natural History houses 32 million objects, is visited by over 4 million people annually, and has a stellar research staff that mounts over 100 expeditions every year.
Museum Secrets, Season 2, Episode 1: State Hermitage Museum
Museum Secrets is a wonderful show, which reminds me why I enjoy history so much. I am now very much looking forward to seeing the rest of this season’s episodes.
Season 2 of Museum Secrets Premieres this week!
Join us for a brand new season of Museum Secrets premiering this Thursday, January 12th at 10pm EST/PST!
BBC show on The Private Lives Of The Medieval Kings to begin airing next week
In Illuminations: The Private Lives of the Medieval Kings BBC Four will tell the story of the Medieval monarchy as preserved through stunning illuminated manuscripts from the British Library’s Royal Manuscripts collection which contains some of the most priceless documents in the country’s history.
New trailer for Game of Thrones Season 2
‘The Iron Throne is mine by right. They will bend the knee, or I will destroy them.’
Mmmmm….Medievalicious! Medieval Soups from Battle Castle
The good people at Battle Castle are offering their viewers three medieval soup recipes, just in time for Christmas.
Tony Robinson’s Gods and Monsters premieres this weekend
Tony Robinson’s Gods and Monsters, a new five-part series, begins on British television on Saturday night with a look at a history of the undead in Britain over the last two thousand years.
Battle of the Nations TV series
The Association of Historical Reenactors of the Middle Ages has created a unique film about the movement of historical reenactment of the Middle Ages.
Battle Castle set to invade TV screens in 2012
Battle Castle, a new Canadian television series airing in 2012, promises to reveal the military engineering behind six medieval castles – detail the…