Or Rome. And this is history, so it's Rome, I'm afraid.

Mark your calendars, Cunk on Life (previously known as Cunk's Quest for Meaning) comes out this christmas.

A mockumentary exploring the history of subjects with host Philomena Cunk.

 First of all it has to be said that Diane Morgan does a great job at playing the main character because she’s so consistent about it but in a way that still makes her seem endearing to the audience. It’s great how she occasionally makes a really profoundly valid point in amongst the comedy and nonsense. It’s particularly funny because it is a parody of actual public ignorance and given how depressing things are these days, it’s nice to be able to laugh at it at some point. The political jibes are especially good.

 The Christmas one was probably the weakest because it doesn’t have as much to do with the world at large, although there are a few good barbs at organised religion in there. In each installment there are scenes where she interviews actual experts and sometimes these work out really well, but other times they just appear awkward and that kind of comedy tends to make me feel just as awkward.

 The way the episodes make fun of the structure of documentaries as well as the actual content is also very amusing. It points out the flaws and unravels the stylised parts in a great satirical way. It’s also quite funny when it randomly cuts to her wearing historical dress too because it doesn’t really lead up to it and when it happens she doesn’t even mention it. The Game of Thrones part of the Shakespeare part was particularly funny and although it was tedious at first, the bits in Britain where it actually made us sit through the title sequence of Brushstrokes (1986-1991) once every episode was pretty random but fun and I actually began waiting to see how they’d worm it in there.

 The Britain series was five parts long and it was taking a period of history each episode so it felt like it was building up to something and I was particularly looking forward to all the digs they’d fit in about the train wreck Brexit is turning into but that sequence was actually quite short which was a real shame. The occasional jokes in each episode fall flat but I think that some of them are humorous enough to warrant dealing with them and watching all of these.

 Cunk On Shakespeare: 7/10 -Well above average, but no masterpiece-

Cunk On Christmas: 4/10 -It’s below average, but only just!-