Harry Hill's TV Burp

ITV in desperate £4m battle to keep TV Burp

ITV bosses are battling to keep hold of Harry Hill "at any cost" - and are offering him a deal worth up to £4million.

The big-collared comedian continues his final series of satirical looks at the week's soap opera excesses, reality show antics and documentary absurdity. It's silly, surreal slapstick - and one of the most reliably hilarious half-hours on television.

Gigglebox weekly #36 - Harry Hill's TV Burp

This week I've been reviewing what I'm hoping will be the final series of Harry Hill's TV Burp. When I say "hoping will be the final series", what I really mean is that I hope if Harry Hill leaves this'll be the final series of TV Burp.

No one is quite sure - or else they are and are playing their cards close to their chests - but this could be the last series of TV Burp. At least, with Harry Hill at the helm.

After 11 years of watching terrible television, Hill has reportedly had enough and is bowing out. But another presenter would be unthinkable. Burp IS Harry Hill. Though he has a team of writers, Hill's surreal stamp is all over the Bafta-winning show.

So make the most of what could be the end. Admittedly Burp has started to lose steam, but it will still be hard to say goodbye to the series that gave us the Zelig-like Knitted Character and the pulverising of Freaky Eaters: all together now, "Chippy chips!"

Harry Hill's TV Burp, we'll miss you

This could be the last series of TV Burp - how will we cope without Wagbo, bits of scenery that look like faces, and 'there's only one way to find out' fights?

After 10 years, this is the last run of this splendidly silly review of the week's TV. Against all odds, it's become one of ITV's most popular shows. Before TV Burp, Hill had a series on Channel 4, but was thought too odd for the mainstream, perhaps because of his routines involving puppet badgers named after minor celebrities (for example, "Tasmin Archer Badger").

At first, ITV1 dumped TV Burp into late-night slots. Not till the third series was repeated on Sunday teatimes did ITV1 realise it had a hit. From series four, TV Burp has been a fixture of Saturday teatimes. Audiences of eight million tuned in to see soap dialogue mocked, reality shows spoofed, and sequences so bizarre no other ITV show would attempt them. One week, Hill persuaded a dozen of TV's biggest stars to stare down the lens and say, in a puzzled tone, "Ear cataracts?" (It made sense at the time. Actually it didn't, but it was still funny.) Lately, though, Hill has wearied of watching 10 hours' TV a day, which is why he's quitting. In autumn, TV Burp will be replaced with a hidden camera show by Trigger Happy TV's Dom Joly. But who's funnier: Joly or Hill? "There's only one way to find out!"

Harry Hill confirms new TV Burp to be last series?

In his latest blog post, Harry Hill has suggested that the new series of TV Burp may indeed be the last, suggesting fans make the most of it.

TV Burp set to carry on after Harry Hill exit

The makers of Harry Hill's TV Burp are desperate to keep the show - despite its host quitting next year.

Harry Hill splits with agent and TV Burp boss

He's a dab hand at channel-hopping thanks to TV Burp... but now Harry Hill could be about to do it for real. The comic has split with his long-standing manager and the move has sparked huge interest from all the main channels.