Sean Bean on Waterloo

The History Channel, Channel 186, Today, 20:30 Pfeh! Don’t even try, History Channel. Don’t think you can win me back with an actual historical documentary series after all the pseudoscience, mockumentaries and contemporary reality shows you’ve forced me to endure. And having Sean Bean present it — that’s just low! Although, a historical documentary presented by Bean, above, does sound pretty good . . .

On a serious note, this documentary series tells the story of one of history’s most decisive battles, the Battle of Waterloo, in which the Seventh Coalition, comprised of several European nations, defeated the French, who were under the leadership of the ambitious conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte, turning the tide of his conquest. Who knows where Napoleon would have stopped otherwise? Maybe we’d all be speaking and writing a language in which you don’t pronounce half the letters if the coalition had not prevailed.

What makes Bean suitable to present this show — apart from the fact that he’s awesome — is that he played the role of soldier Richard Sharpe in the historical TV series about the Napoleonic wars called

Sharpe, based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell. Could be interesting.