HARRY HILL'S TV BURP RETURNS TO ITV1 ON 9TH OCTOBER 2010
The four-time BAFTA winning Harry Hill’s TV Burp is back with a brand new series this autumn. HARRY will be back to business as usual, skewering all the funniest, quirkiest, and downright silliest clips from the week’s TV. Expect more inspired quips and skits in another bumper run that sees the big-collared comedy maestro ribbing the biggest shows on the box.
Your favourite reality shows, soaps, docs and dramas are sure to get the trademark TV Burp treatment, and with a big season of top telly ahead, there’ll be plenty for HARRY to wring belly laughs from.
The last critically-acclaimed series treated viewers to classic clips from Burp favourites including Lark Rise to Candleford and Popstar to Operastar, and of course, the hotly contested K Factor Not Live Final was unarguably the most exciting reality TV event of all time, ever! Peter the Wingless Duck rose like a Wingless Duck from the flames after MICHAEL WINNER gave him a Dining Stars style critical kicking; DANNY DYER uncovered ‘evidence’ of aliens before our very eyes; and who can forget the show-stopping song and dance spectacular from street enthusiast LOUIS SPENCE off Pineapple Dance Studios.
Because the show is completely topical and totally up-to-date, there’s no way of predicting what will tickle HARRY’s televisual fancy this time around, but you can be sure no potential funnies will escape his forensic eye for the rib-tickling bits the rest of us miss. But who will join DEREK ACORAH, BEAR GRYLLS and PARIS HILTON in the pantheon of TV Burp cult heroes this autumn? There’s only one way to find out…
A packed autumn for HARRY will also see the release of Harry Hill’s TV Burp Gold 3 featuring the best bits from previous series, and the publication of new book Livin’ the Dreem by Faber - an unexpurgated diary of his year that promises to do for the celebrity memoir what the Large Hadron Collider has done for particle acceleration.
What the press said about the last series of Harry Hill’s TV Burp:
“Suddenly, all is right with the world, because Harry Hill’s TV Burp is back. It’s ITV1’s greatest comedy asset … and it’s just wonderful. Witty, funny, surreal and silly, TV Burp is what Saturday nights are for.”
Alison Graham, Radio Times
“Saturday night, ITV1. Two contestants from Dating In The Dark appear to be singing Rock Me Amadeus while a bald comedian impersonates X Factor’s Miss Frank and has his head humped by a kakapo puppet. It can only be the return of Harry Hill’s TV Burp, which hit the ground like Usain Bolt with his Nike tights on fire. Casualty, Last Chance To See, Corrie, Colonel Gaddafi (in the EastEnders café) and BBC4’s Gandhi documentary, were all given brutally short shrift. The highlight of the show, though, was the sight of a crestfallen Harry, dressed head to toe in aluminium foil, just a perfectly-timed second after a Dating In The Dark girl had announced: “I want a knight in shining armour, not some idiot in tinfoil.” Because the real genius of Burp is that it can take the worst show on television - undoubtedly, Living TV’s Dating In The Dark - and make you wish you’d seen every single episode.”
Ally Ross, The Sun
Harry Hill’s TV Burp returns to ITV1 on 9th October 2010
