We've been watching Ancient Egyptians with the kids. It's a pretty neat small series of true stories based on ancient texts. They've poured enough money into the re-enactments and sets to really do it up right.

We're all very pleased with it, even the kids. I wish I could say the same for The Pirates of Penzance which the kids took approximately 6 seconds (no exaggeration) to determine wasn't worth their time. Being an adult of mature and cultured tastes, I soldiered on for about 15 minutes more before I gave up and conceded that it completely blows. It really should have been better, but the sound quality was awful and the camera movements were too herky jerky so you couldn't really ever tell what was going on.