Harry Hill to host spoof cooking show on Sky
- Harry Hill is to host a TV show featuring interviews, spoof cooking and comedy interludes
- Sky1 has ordered two series of Harry Hill's Tea-Time already. The first will air this autumn
- Hill is also working on a new sitcom for the BBC, through his new production company
Harry Hill is to host a new spoof TV cooking show, and is also working on a BBC sitcom.
Sky1 has ordered two series of Harry Hill's Tea-Time following the recording of a non-broadcast pilot earlier this year.
The format is described as "a fun-filled concoction of one part chat show and one part spoof cookery show, sprinkled with the inimitable Harry Hill, as he casts his comedy eye over the world of cooking and cookery TV programmes".
Each episode in the eight-part series will see a celebrity guest thrown into Harry's crazy kitchen, joining him and his cast of comedy characters, as they take part in a smorgasbord of "cooking related chaos".
Sky explains: "While Harry teaches his guests how to cook his ridiculous recipes, such as 'mozzarella snowmen' and 'sponge-finger prison', he interviews them in his own unique way. Harry then garnishes the chat with TV show clips, from shows that his guests have appeared in, to comical observations taken from the cookery TV genre.
"The little cooking that does get done is interspersed with all the usual comedy time-outs, bonkers games and musical interludes that the public have come to love from a Harry Hill show."
Guests confirmed for Harry Hill's Tea-Time include James Corden, Ruth Jones, James Nesbitt, Karl Pilkington, Ross Kemp and Lee Mack.
Harry Hill says: "I'm thrilled to be joining Sky's exciting new line-up of entertainment programming and even more excited to know that my programmes will now be broadcast via satellite so that aliens will be able to watch them. They're not going to know what's hit them. I expect an invasion!"
Sky's Celia Taylor comments: "On what other show could you learn how to make 'chicken à la Tom Jones'? Harry Hill's Tea-Time is a brilliant addition to our slate of non-scripted programming."
The first series of Harry Hill's Tea-Time will air on Sky1 this autumn, with Series 2 following in 2017.
Harry Hill's Tea-Time is produced by Nit TV, a new production company formed by Harry Hill with established company CPL Productions. It is through this company that Hill is also working to make a sitcom for the BBC.
Based on his best-selling comic-memoir, Livin' The Dreem: A Year In My Life... Probably, the sitcom project promises "a heady mix of tall tales from Harry's life at home with his mum and even taller tales of celebrity encounters from the centre of the showbiz whirlwind, Bexhill".
CPL Productions' Managing Director Danielle Lux comments: "We're overjoyed to be collaborating with Harry Hill, one of the UK's most popular and unique performers over the last two decades. His creative vision and irreverent approach is a perfect fit for CPL." Creative Director Murray Boland adds: "We love Harry and these fantastic deals with Sky and the BBC are just the start of a dynamic and lively future for Nit TV."
Talking about his new production venture, Harry Hill adds: "It's great to be working with Danielle and Murray at CPL and finally finding a permanent home for all my TV ideas. This new teatime show is a natural fit for Sky - we're both risk takers! The sitcom idea is one that's been bubbling under for a while and I'm looking forward to working with Shane Allen at BBC Comedy who's been a great supporter of mine."