Harry Hill's TV Burp

For the former Australian version, see TV Burp (Australian TV series).
Harry Hill's TV Burp

TV Burp title card
Genre Comedy
Created by Harry Hill
Written by Harry Hill
Presented by Harry Hill
Composer(s) Steve Brown
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 11
No. of episodes 161 (plus 5 specials)
Production
Executive producer(s) Harry Hill
Producer(s) Nick Symons (2002–06)
Spencer Millman (2007–12)
Location(s) Teddington Studios (2001–09)
BBC Television Centre (2009–12)
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) Avalon Television
Distributor ITV Studios
Broadcast
Original channel ITV (2001-2012);
Cartoon Network (2011–12)
Picture format 16:9 576i (SDTV) (2001–09)
16:9 1080i (HDTV) (2010–12)
Audio format Dolby Digital 5.1
Original run 22 December 2001 – 24 March 2012
Chronology
Related shows You Cannot Be Serious
External links
Website
Production website

Harry Hill's TV Burp (also known as just TV Burp) is a British television comedy programme that ran for 11 years from 2001 to 2012. It was produced by Avalon Television for ITV and written and hosted by comedian Harry Hill. The show presents a look at the week's television, including extracts from TV shows with added sketches, observational voice-overs, and guest appearances.

The show is based on clips of the previous week of programming on television, frequently reinterpreting actions or lines of dialogue in a humorous way, or pointing out how views of props or sets amusingly resemble other objects, and often lightheartedly or sarcastically commenting on the actual intended content of the programme. To produce the show, Hill and his programme associate writing team, including Brenda Gilhooly, Paul Hawksbee, Dan Maier, Joe Burnside and David Quantick, watch significant amounts of television, much on preview tapes. Clips from a variety of shows across most channels are included in the show, with soaps, dramas and popular-factual series being the most commonly represented genres. The clips are shown outside of the context of their original programme and only limited information about the scene is given, as the focus of the show's treatment is on the often unintentional humour which can be derived from the scene. Series 1 to 8 were recorded before a live audience at Teddington Studios, South-West London, in Studio 1. Beginning with series 9, recording was relocated to BBC Television Centre.

Repeats of the show are currently shown on Gold.

History

Following a successful pilot broadcast on 22 December 2001, a series was commissioned, starting on 14 November 2002. Notably, the BBC did not allow any clips from EastEnders to be used within the first series, requiring Hill's comments on the show to be instead accompanied by crude animation, courtroom-style sketches or staged comic re-enactments of scenes from the show. However, as of the second series, clips have appeared. The first two series were broadcast late at night on Thursdays, and the third series on Fridays. Whilst well received, the scheduling was criticised due to the family-friendly humour. The third series received a Sunday teatime repeat and from the fourth series, the show moved to a Saturday teatime slot, later moving to primetime.

In 2007, Ofcom ruled that TV Burp had breached guidelines by including clips of a Bear Grylls programme which featured Grylls eating a frog and cooking a turtle; Ofcom ruled that the clips were 'inappropriately scheduled' given the offence they could potentially cause viewers when taken outside of the context of the whole Grylls programme.[1] In 2009, "The Best of TV Burp 3" included footage originally broadcast in 2004, which lampooned Sky reality series The Real Mrs Robinson. ITV and Avalon were not aware that two of the participants in the programme had died between the original broadcast and the 'Best of'. However, Sky's licence to use the footage made no mention of this, and the participants were not referred to by their full names in the footage, restricting TV Burp's ability to research the case ahead of putting the programme to air. After complaints were made to ITV and Ofcom, the programme was voluntarily re-edited such that the segment was removed from all further broadcasts. Ofcom did not uphold a complaint made by relatives of the deceased, stating that whilst it recognised that the broadcast of the footage would have been distressing to the family, the manner of the broadcast did not breach the broadcasting regulations.[2] The highest rated episode of TV Burp aired on Saturday 13 November 2010, with the show receiving 8 million, a 32% audience share.[3]

Due to the inclusion of a large amount of material to which ITV and Avalon do not hold the rights, repeats of past TV Burp episodes were rare outside immediate broadcast repeats. However, in 2009, The Best of TV Burp was introduced, which featured clips from previous episodes. Additionally, following the roll-out of ITV Player, as of 2009, new episodes have also been made available to view online on the service for up to 7 days after original transmission.[4] As of 7 April 2012, 24 'Best of TV Burp' episodes have been aired, in addition to a Best of Christmas TV Burp episode on 27 December 2010, with clips from previous Christmas episodes of the show. On 28 October 2011, Cartoon Network began airing a similar format, in which they take past episodes of the series and edit segments together to make the series more child-friendly. No new segments were recorded for this version, with the exception of the trailer.

After months of speculation, Hill confirmed to his studio audience at the taping of the final episode of Series 11 that it would be his last.[5]

In October 2013 Gold began airing re-runs of the show starting with the third series.[6]

Content

Over the years, a number of recurring elements and characters have been introduced into the show.

Fights

To enter into the advertisement, the show has used a fight sketch to introduce the break. Typically, Hill claims to like two items and, wondering how to determine which is better, decides a fight is necessary, which then occurs on the set. The typical script for this sections is: "Well, I like 'x' and I like 'y'. But which is better? There's only one way to find out...FIGHT!" The two relevant people, animals or items then appear from doors on either side of the studio and then fight, with Hill saying "Go on 'x'! Go on 'y'! See you after the break." After the commercial break, the show continues as normal, making no reference to the fight or who won it. Notable fights that have not stuck to the regular format have included:

Cartoon Network created a fight that appears in only adverts, but no episode. The fight was a white C in a black box vs a black N in a white box (A white C in a black box and a black N in a white box is Cartoon Network's logo).

Recurring elements

Throughout the years, a number of recurring elements have appeared weekly on the show. The most notable elements include:

Series themes

Final episode

After months of speculation, Hill confirmed to his studio audience at the taping of the final episode of Series 11 that it would be his last, and finished the show with appearance from Cheryl Fergison, who played Heather Trott in EastEnders, alongside several recurring characters and celebrities, Wagbo, the Knitted Character, the show's own Heather, played by Steve Benham and Amanda Lamb, all singing to Adele's "Someone Like You". Brian Belo and the Sir Alan puppet also appeared earlier in the episode. After the credits, there was a final brief clip from that week's EastEnders with Ben Mitchell (Joshua Pascoe) saying "It's over". He also sings about Amanda Lamb from her TV show You Deserve This House in another previous episode. The sketch contains many cameos of soap stars and previous characters.

Characters

A number of characters have been introduced into the show and become recurring, most notably in later series.

  • Brian Belo
  • Alan Sugar puppet
  • Mr. Blobby
  • Ross Kemp dummy
  • Pete
  • Winston
  • Knobbin' Oss
  • Mr Fuzzy
  • Queen Vic head
  • Gandhi
  • Wobbling jelly
  • Puppet shark
  • Skippy
  • Mr funny face

Reception and awards

The show had positive reviews.

However, Hill's brand of comedy also attracts negative criticism from detractors, such as TV critic Ruth Margolis, who wrote: "Harry Hill’s TV Burp, ITV's comedy centrepiece (this alone should tell you all you need to know), sees Hill deliver tedious, unimaginative thoughts on of the week's television. Where there's scope for a joke he chooses instead to drop a cheap pun, make jazz hands or, better still, wrinkle his forehead to acknowledge a weak innuendo on Coronation Street." [10]

The titles of the show were briefly featured as part of London 2012's opening ceremony.

Transmissions

Series

Series Start date End date Episodes
Pilot
22 December 2001
 1
1 14 November 2002 19 December 2002 6
2 30 October 2003 18 December 2003 8
3 20 February 2004 2 April 2004 7
4 23 October 2004 27 November 2004 6
5 21 January 2006 25 March 2006 10
6 30 December 2006 14 April 2007 14[fn 1]
7 25 December 2007 5 April 2008 14[fn 2]
8 18 October 2008 4 April 2009 25[fn 3]
9 10 October 2009 3 April 2010 24[fn 4]
10 9 October 2010 2 April 2011 22[fn 5]
11 8 October 2011 24 March 2012 24[fn 6]

Cartoon Network version

Series Start date End date Episodes
1 28 October 2011 7 February 2012 20

Specials

From 2005 to 2011, the biennial BBC One transmission of the Red Nose Day telethon in aid of Comic Relief has included a short TV Burp segment. He also recorded a short TV Burp segment for Blue Peter in February 2009.

Date Special
11 March 2005 Comic Relief 2005
16 March 2007 Comic Relief 2007
4 February 2009 Blue Peter 2009
13 March 2009 Comic Relief 2009
18 March 2011 Comic Relief 2011 (crossover with Autumnwatch)

Ratings

Ratings from BARB[11] and exclude Best of TV Burp editions.

Series 7

Episode No. Airdate Viewers
(millions)		 Overnight share
1 25 December 20073.65 13.3%[12]
212 January 20086.02 26.0%[13]
319 January 2008 6.3727.8%[14]
426 January 20087.36 32.3%[15]
52 February 20086.45 27.2%[16]
69 February 2008 7.0932.0%[17]
716 February 20085.10 21.0%[18]
823 February 20085.07 24.5%[19]
91 March 2008 5.36 N/A
108 March 20086.30 25.9%[20]
1115 March 20086.26 27.0%[21]
1222 March 20086.07 27.9%[22]
1329 March 20085.98 27.2%[23]
14 5 April 2008 5.8124.8%[24]

Series 8

Episode No. Airdate Viewers
(millions)		 Overnight share
1 18 October 2008 6.6727.3%[25]
2 25 October 2008 6.7225.2%[26]
3 1 November 2008 6.2724.3%[27]
4 8 November 2008 5.5822.3%[28]
5 15 November 2008 5.8322.7%[29]
6 22 November 2008 6.2422.8%[30]
7 29 November 2008 6.8726.8%[31]
8 6 December 2008 8.2832.0%[32]
9 13 December 2008 6.2923.5%[33]
10 20 December 20084.9117.7%[34]
11 31 January 2009 6.4926.1%[35]
12 7 February 20096.1524.0%[36]
13 14 February 2009 7.8731.7%[37]
14 21 February 2009 4.4720.2%[38]
15 28 February 2009 5.4625.6%[39]
16 7 March 20095.9723.5%[40]
17 14 March 2009 5.4127.0%[41]
18 21 March 20095.2225.2%[42]
19 28 March 2009 6.4227.6%[43]
20 4 April 2009 5.3927.0%[44]

Series 9

Episode No. Airdate Viewers
(millions)		 Overnight share
1 10 October 2009 7.1327.7%[45]
2 17 October 2009 7.3528.9%[46]
3 24 October 2009 7.0526.7%[47]
4 31 October 2009 5.9423.2%[48]
5 7 November 2009 6.0423.2%[49]
6 14 November 2009 5.9721.3%[50]
7 21 November 2009 7.2526.3%[51]
8 28 November 2009 7.0426.4%[52]
9 30 January 2010 7.0729.4%[53]
10 6 February 2010 7.3528.7%[54]
11 13 February 2010 5.3521.4%[55]
12 20 February 2010 5.8022.2%[56]
13 27 February 2010 5.9223.3%[57]
14 6 March 2010 5.2620.4%[58]
15 13 March 2010 5.7223.1%[59]
16 20 March 2010 6.6928.6%[60]

Series 10

Episode No. Airdate Viewers
(millions) 		Overnight share
1 9 October 2010 5.97[nb 1]23.8%[61]
2 16 October 2010 5.4221.9%[62]
3 23 October 2010 5.3320.9%[63]
4 30 October 2010 5.3720.8%[64]
5 6 November 2010 5.3820.7%[65]
6 13 November 2010 8.27[nb 2]31.5%[66]
7 20 November 2010 7.0826.1%[67]
8 27 November 2010 6.1722.4%[68]
9 4 December 2010 5.6520.7%[69]
10 5 February 2011 6.06[nb 3]24.3%[70]
11 12 February 2011 5.8226.6%[71]
12 19 February 2011 4.3718.8%[72]
13 26 February 2011 4.2417.9%[73]
14 5 March 2011 4.2519.5%[74]
15 12 March 2011 4.2818.7%[75]
16 19 March 2011 5.4225.1%[76]
1726 March 2011 5.0724.3%[77]

Series 11

Episode No. Airdate Viewers
(millions)[nb 4] 		Overnight share
1 8 October 2011 4.7818.3%[78]
2 15 October 2011 4.67 18.6%[79]
3 22 October 2011 5.07 18.7%[80]
4 29 October 2011 4.87 18.2%[81]
5 5 November 2011 4.86 19.4%[82]
6 12 November 2011 5.28 18.8%[83]
7 19 November 20115.40 18.7%[84]
826 November 2011 5.00 18.2%[85]
9 3 December 2011 4.86 17.7%[86]
10 4 February 2012 5.67 22.4%[87]
11 11 February 2012 5.38 22.6%[88]
12 18 February 2012 4.46 17.5%[89]
13 25 February 2012 4.93 20.4%[90]
14 3 March 2012 4.97 20.8%[91]
15 10 March 2012 4.87 21.4%[92]
16 17 March 2012 5.10 22.6%[93]
17 24 March 2012 3.69 15.1%[94]
18 7 April 2012 3.38 13.8%[95]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The TV Burp Christmas Special 2006 was broadcast as part of Series 6
  2. ↑ The TV Burp Christmas Special 2007 was broadcast as part of Series 7
  3. ↑ The Best of TV Burp 1-4 and The Review of the Year 2008 were broadcast as part of Series 8
  4. ↑ The Best of TV Burp 5-11 and The Review of the Year 2009 were broadcast as part of Series 9
  5. ↑ The Best of TV Burp 12-16 and The Best of Christmas TV Burp were broadcast as part of Series 10
  6. ↑ The Best of TV Burp 17-24 were broadcast as part of Series 11

Merchandise

As per repeats, it was initially thought that a DVD release of TV Burp would be unlikely. However, a DVD titled Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold was eventually released in November 2008. Three other DVDs have since been released, as detailed below, with additional content from the show.[96] A complete series-by-series release still appears unlikely. A TV Burp book was also released in 2009.

Title Duration Classification Release Date
Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold
61 minutes
12
10 November 2008
Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 2
61 minutes
12
9 November 2009
Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 3
64 minutes
PG
1 November 2010
Harry Hill's TV Burp: The Best Bits
60 minutes
12
14 November 2011
Harry Hill's Cream Of TV Burp
63 minutes
PG
26 November 2012

Hill, Harry (8 October 2009). Harry Hill's TV Burp Book. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-193224-4.[97]

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  1. ↑ Viewing figures include those who watched on ITV HD
  2. ↑ Viewing figures include those who watched on ITV HD
  3. ↑ Viewing figures include those who watched on ITV HD
  4. ↑ Viewing figures include those who watched on ITV HD

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