Harry Hill's TV Burp

Why I Love - Harry Hill

The man is a modern day hero, and frankly, he's just not being recognised as much as he should be, even though he does have two shows on at primetime on a Saturday and has won a pretty impressive stack of awards. But if rumours are to be believed, he may soon be taking TV Burp off to Sky, which would be a great loss to terrestrial TV.

Another slice of small screen silliness from what's becoming a pillar of ITV1's prime-time weekend line-up - and is duly being milked for all its worth, with a rash of these round-ups as the big-collared comedian presumably takes an extended holiday. It's funny enough stuff to forgive him, though, with Strictly Come Dancing and Ray Mears getting the mickey-take treatment tonight.

Poll: Will you watch if TV Burp moves to Sky?

Here we go again! According to reports, Sky are after Harry and TV Burp again, despite previously unsuccessful attempts. Would you watch TV Burp if it moved to Sky1?

Harry Hill negotiating £3m move to Sky

TV Burp host Harry Hill locked in discussions about taking hit show from ITV to BSkyB, with contract due to finish in April.

Shall I tell you what I hate about TV Burp? It's never long enough. While many shows on telly seem to drag, half an hour in Harry's company always flies by frustratingly quickly.

Still, leave the audience wanting more, I guess that's the idea. Here he takes his a look back at 2009, as you could probably have figured out for yourself from the title.

Fresh from his victory at the British Comedy Awards, telly's preeminent pop-culture satirist returns for a gander at 2009. Details are vague when it comes to the subjects of Hill's absurdist quips and pump-action puns, although experience suggests a healthy conflation of reality-based indignity, talent show poltroonism, satellite flimflam, plus Dev from Coronation Street.

Harry Hill may be in bother with telly watchdog Ofcom as 12 viewers complained over jokes about the Nazis. The TV Burp star compared a factory line of Vienetta ice creams to "German tanks rolling into Poland". And he made a potato swastika while mocking BBC show Jimmy's Food Factory.

Now Harry Does a "Delia" for Harvester

There's a new phenomenon, loosely called the TV Burp bounce of the week.

Comedian Harry Hill has found a fan in Harvester restaurants after mocking them on his hit show, TV Burp, and unwittingly driving hundreds of new diners into their establishments.

If you watch only one thing on television all weekend, make it TV Burp. You know the drill by now - it's wacky, it's fun, and it's for all the family. What would we do without you, Mr Hill?

There's the pleasure of watching television, and then there's the enhanced pleasure of watching television through the lunatic, bespectacled eyes of Harry Hill, the doctor-turned-comedian who returns for the ninth series of his quickfire lampooning of the week's TV idiocies and inanities. With his ear-brushingly high collars, his line of pens emblazoning his breast pocket and his silly schoolboy's dribble of badges on his lapel, Hill has always looked like a ventriloquist's dummy that somebody forgot to put the wig on. You probably wouldn't want him as your GP. But as a palliative to the surreal absurdities thrown up by television each week, Hill is welcome medicine. His early potshots will almost certainly include skewering studies of the revealing minor moments in The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing that you may have missed the first time round. Who but Hill would identify, for instance, the garish range of facial expressions employed by Louis Walsh on the judging panel of The X Factor or the tongue-lolling, puppy-dog mug of contestant Eoghan Quigg begging you to vote for him? For a weekly post mortem of TV's lesser-spotted manias and neuroses, Hill may be just what the doctor ordered.