Blackadder the Third The programme won a BAFTA award for Best Comedy Series in 1988 and received three further nominations. "Blackadder the Third" is set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a period known as the Regency. For much of this time, King George III was incapacitated due to poor mental health, and his son George, the Prince of Wales, acted as regent. During this period, he was known as "the Prince Regent". Although the Regency was in place between 1811 and 1820, the historical events and persons depicted and referenced appear to date the series before this time; anywhere in
Historical period drama films set in Asia of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—"Portrait of Hell", for example, is set during the late Heian period—and the early Meiji era is also a popular setting. "Jidaigeki" show the lives of the samurai, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants of their time. "Jidaigeki" films are sometimes referred to as chambara movies, a word meaning "sword fight", though chambara is more accurately a subgenre of "jidaigeki", which equates to historical period drama. In Japan, the term , also commonly spelled ""chambara"", meaning "sword fighting" movies, denotes the genre called samurai cinema in English, and is roughly