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Harry Hill's TV Burp

(November 2007)

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AN
Ant
623058 posted:
Well done to Harry hill for wining

"Best entertainment performance" - at Bafta TV Awards 2008

It got Best Entertainment Programme too.

Double BAFTAs for TV Burp. Fab.
DC
Des Cartes
Great to see the show getting some recognition, well done Harry.
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
Two quotes to sum up the night for TV Burp...
"Baffy-Waff..."
"Ear cataracts?"
DB
dbl
Unfortunately either the audience don't watch TV Burp to their too stuffy to respond to the jokes. Confused
JC
JCB
dbl posted:
Unfortunately either the audience don't watch TV Burp to their too stuff to respond to the jokes. Confused


Or the "jokes" weren't funny. I was cringing.
BE
besty
JCB posted:
dbl posted:
Unfortunately either the audience don't watch TV Burp to their too stuff to respond to the jokes. Confused


Or the "jokes" weren't funny. I was cringing.


I think it's the latter. I'm a big Harry Hill fan, but I think Harry had had a few "lemonades" before going on stage...
JO
Johnny83
Some were laughing Dame Judi Dench did first time round at least.

Anyway well done to Mr Hill Very Happy
GR
gregmc
Although I don't think this years series deserved it, well done to him, the past 7 years worth of shows deserve the 'baffywaffys'!
BE
besty
gregmc posted:
Although I don't think this years series deserved it


Good job he won for the 2007 series then!
PT
Put The Telly On
besty posted:
I think it's the latter. I'm a big Harry Hill fan, but I think Harry had had a few "lemonades" before going on stage...


I just think it wasn't his type of audience. I felt sorry for him in a way but people at home knew what he was doing and thats all that mattered. I love the way he thanked the producers of Freaky Eaters. Laughing
CH
chris
It was cringing, but his speeches seemed to get better as they went along. The thanks for Freaky Eaters was very funny!
SC
scottishtv Founding member
I noticed this story from Monday's Guardian when I was on the Google news section:

ITV to air Harry Hill soap spoof


In The Guardian, John Plunkett posted:
Double Bafta winner Harry Hill is to make a spoof soap for ITV called Soapington Way.

Harry Hill's TV Burp won the entertainment programme prize at last night's Bafta TV awards and he also won the entertainment performance award for the hit ITV1 show.

Hill will play a pub landlord called Arthur Buttons in the new show, and has made a pilot co-starring Liza Tarbuck (as his mum), Mark Benton and Kate Robbins. It has now been commissioned for a series.

"It's a mickey take of a soap," explained Hill, who regularly lampoons the likes of EastEnders, Coronation Street and Holby City on his ITV1 show.

Harry Hill's TV Burp has just finished its seventh run. The writer and presenter said it did not have the backing of ITV in its early days.

"It's only the latest mob at ITV that have got behind it," he said. "For a long time it was going out at 4.30 in the afternoon and then 11 at night. We never really had the backing from ITV for it to break though."

But Hill said this may have turned out to be a blessing in disguise. "It allowed us to improve it quietly."

He added that TV Burp worked because, "it suits my humour but is also something people can relate to".

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