Harry Hill

Call me crazy ... but isn't the best children's TV being made now?

I loved Harry Hill's Shark Infested Custard and Gina Yashere's Gina's Laughing Gear. I set my Sky+ for David Schneider (The Day Today) as Uncle Max, or Marcus Brigstocke as King Stupid, which was simply Blackadder with added gunge. The fact is that some of the sharpest writers in Britain had a turn penning CITV's My Parents Are Aliens, and I don't know a child under five who isn't beguiled by Charlie and Lola. Kids TV today, when made properly, can be wonderful.

Harry Hill to pen spoof soap for ITV1

Comedian Harry Hill is to write an ITV1 pilot for a spoof soap featuring Darren Day as a love-rat landlord and Just Good Friends star Jan Francis as his mum.

An unusual thing about An Audience With Harry Hill (ITV1, Saturday) was that half the audience clearly adored him and half sat stony-faced. They were often the same couple, which must have led to some strained silences in the car going home.

Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1), a teasing review of the week's worst TV, is made too close to transmission for review, but I heartily recommend it on the basis of last week's show. Not only funny, madam, but posh. Where else would you find conundra flung casually into the conversation? I never knew till now that two conundrums were a conundra.