Harry Hill's TV Burp
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TV Burp title card
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| 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) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Harry Hill |
| Producer(s) | Nick Symons (2002–2006) Spencer Millman (2007–2012) |
| Location(s) |
Teddington Studios (2001–2009) BBC Television Centre (2009–2012) |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Avalon Television |
| Distributor | ITV Studios |
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| Original network | ITV (2001-2012) |
| Picture format | 16:9 576i (SDTV) (2001–2009) 16:9 1080i (HDTV) (2010–2012) |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Original release | 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, and was produced by Avalon Television for ITV. The show was written and hosted by comedian Harry Hill, with each episode taking a humourous look back to the previous week of programming on British television. Repeats of the show are currently shown on Gold and Dave.
Much of the format of the show was centred on a selection of clips taken from a week's worth of programming on British television, from both terrestrial and digital channels, which were combined with studio segments involving the host, along with spoof scenes and/or sketches. TV Burp features clips sourced from a variety of shows across most channels from the week before each episode's broadcast, with soaps, dramas and popular-factual series being the most commonly represented genres. Comedy that is derived from the clips shown is usually from outside of the context of their original programme and with only limited information about the scene given, as the focus of the show's treatment is often on the unintentional humour which can be derived from the scene, whether it is from something that is spoken out by a character or a real-life person, something humorous that happened in the clip, or something pointed out by the host, with some clips added to by spoof scenes performed by Hill, the person from the show, or a guest performer (i.e. Harry coming in on a mock-up of the clip's setting, and getting in a slapstick fight with a character from the show). Studio segments usually feature the host commenting lightheartedly or sarcastically about the actual intended content of the programme, and using props based from the clips shown to generate jokes, sometimes mocked up items that were shown, while sketches often are spoofs of behind-the-scenes action, actions by the host, either as himself or in the guise of someone from one of the featured shows, or spoof shows/scenes based upon something mentioned in a clip.
Throughout the series, TV Burp featured a considerable number of recurring elements, of which some became staple parts of the show:
Following a successful pilot broadcast on 22 December 2001, a series was commissioned, starting on 14 November 2002. Production of an episode often involved Hill and his programme's associate writing team, including Brenda Gilhooly, Paul Hawksbee, Dan Maier, Joe Burnside and David Quantick, watching significant amounts of television, much on preview tapes. Throughout Series 1 to 8, the show was recorded before a live audience in Studio 1 of Teddington Studios, South-West London, but from Series 9 to the final episode of Series 11, recording was relocated to BBC Television Centre. The first two series of the show were broadcast within a late night slot on Thursdays, with Series 1 being the only series not to feature clips from the BBC's EastEnders; Hill was required, during the series, to accompany his comments on the British soap with either crude animation, courtroom-style sketches or staged comic re-enactments of scenes from the show. Whilst the show was well received, the scheduling was criticised due to the family-friendly humour, leading to the third series receiving a teatime repeat slot on Sundays. Starting from the fourth series, the show moved to a Saturday teatime slot, and then later to a Saturday primetime slot.
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