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Harry Hill's TV Burp

Harry Hill's TV Burp

  • TV comedy
  • ITV1
  • 2001 - 2012
  • 136 episodes (12 series)

Award-winning comedian Harry Hill takes a surreal look at television clips from the previous seven days. Also features Steve Benham.

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Adrian Edmondson: 'Only brilliant comedy is TV Burp'

Adrian Edmondson reveals his TV likes and dislikes - he's mad for The Muppets and TV Burp but has a downer on Downton Abbey...

Claire Webb, Radio Times, 28th November 2011

Q&A: Harry Hill

'My worst job? Junior doctor, Kingston hospital, 1988'.

Rosanna Greenstreet, The Guardian, 11th November 2011

Woman guilty of stabbing husband to death in TV row

A north London woman who stabbed her husband during a row over what to watch on TV has been cleared of his murder.

Leonora Sinclair, 50, wanted to watch Harry Hill while her husband Lloyd, 73, wanted to see the football at their Enfield home, the Old Bailey was told.

BBC News, 25th October 2011

Harry Hill becomes a record boss

We could soon be in for a FIIIIIIIGHT between Simon Cowell and Harry Hill - the comedy genius has thrown his hat into the talent judging arena.

Gordon Smart, The Sun, 21st October 2011

TV Burp & Shark Infested Custard on Cartoon Network

A treat is in store for Cartoon Network viewers, with two Harry Hill shows joining the channel.

Harry Hill Fansite, 17th October 2011

Harry Hill on X Factor The Musical and more

The funniest host on TV tells The Radio Times what it would take to get him on Strictly Come Dancing.

Claire Webb, Radio Times, 15th October 2011

Win 1 of 20 copies of Harry Hill's new book

Harry Hill Fansite is delighted to be able to offer you the chance to win 1 of 20 copies of Harry Hill's new book.

Harry Hill Fansite, 13th October 2011

Harry Hill to work on 'X Factor: The Musical'

Harry Hill has confirmed his involvement in X Factor: The Musical.

Evening Standard, 12th October 2011

Wife 'murdered husband' after row over TV Burp

A woman stabbed her husband to death after a row about what to watch on TV, a court has been told. Leonora Sinclair wanted to see Harry Hill while her husband Lloyd Sinclair, 73, wanted to watch football.

BBC News, 11th October 2011

This week saw the return of what has been speculated by many to be the final series of TV Burp to be hosted by Harry Hill. My fingers are crossed that isn't the case.

Hill, after so many years in charge of the show, is still able to find the tiniest aspects of any show and make a joke out of it, keeping it going on and on, forming a centrepiece that you want to return to constantly; whether it be his half-time fights, the "TV Highlight of the Week" or "Poetry Corner".

In the first episode of this series, the main recurring gag was about a man called Stephen on Channel 4's [o]Coach Trip[/i], who seemed to be so emotionless that Hill claimed there was another man called Ian trapped inside him. However, my favourite moment in this week's show was from There's No Taste Like Home in which Hill was constantly trying to figure out who had really made Nanny Maud's rabbit pie.

TV Burp is without doubt one of the best shows on ITV. It is the most successful mainstream comedy of modern times - popular with audiences and critics - winning more awards than My Family could ever had dreamt of.

However, would the format survive without Harry Hill? I doubt it.

Ian Wolf, Giggle Beats, 10th October 2011

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