Harry Hill's TV Burp (2001)

Genre

comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Length

14 seasons, 192 episodes

Rated

12

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Harry Hill hosts a clip show where he jokes about TV programs from the past week. He points out funny or strange moments and sometimes does sketches or brings in people from those shows.

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What happens

Harry Hill's TV Burp (also referred to as TV Burp) is a British television comedy clip show, written and hosted by the comedian Harry Hill and produced by Avalon Television for ITV. The show's format sees Hill take a comedic look over a previous week's schedule of television programming across a range of genres, with episodes often featuring sketches and parodied scenes. Much of its comedy derives from taking scenes out of context or highlighting unintentionally comedic moments, with frequent uses of callbacks and in-jokes. The programme often featured appearances from real-life people and television personalities, with a guest from one of the show's clips usually appearing to do a musical performance to finish the episode. Production of each episode primarily required Hill and his team to review preview tapes for a week's television schedule in advance to provide the foundation for the script of that week's episode. TV Burp was aired on ITV1 between 2001 and 2012. The show aired on Thursday nights for the first three series, before moving to Saturday evenings from series 4 onwards. It was critically acclaimed and won numerous awards, including three BAFTA TV Awards, a Rose d'Or for best comedy performance, and multiple British Comedy Awards. Although it initially struggled with viewing figures, it later became one of the most watched shows on British television and reached eight million viewers at its peak. An Australian version of the programme was made in 2009 for Seven Network. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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