This autumn sees the release of Harry Hill’s TV Burp Gold 2, a new DVD packed with the most memorable clips, skits and quips from the archives of the four-time BAFTA-winning show. Following last year’s hugely successful DVD debut, the new release gives Burp fans the chance to own more of the best bits from HARRY’S inimitable take on the week’s television.

The main show is bursting with clips from Burp favourites including, “the Reithian vision that is Hole In The Wall”, American Inventor - PETER JONES’ format that’s not anything like Dragon’s Den, “I’m a Pleb, Get Me On TV Again”, and Heston Blumenthal’s Victorian Feast introduces us to the joys of… wobbling jelly. There’s a glut of classic gags, including: HARRY’s solution to an embarrassing problem on I Speak Animal, “Nicole was having a problem getting on her horse, Randy.” “Well wait until you’ve calmed down a bit!” suggested HARRY. Plus, DEREK ACORAH ventures into the spirit world to channel a profound message from a dog: “Woof woof woof woof! Woof woof woof woof woof!”

TV Burp lovers will also be able to revisit: The Many Faces of Louis Walsh (including, Number Four - Outrage!); the debut of the KNITTED CHARACTER; a puppet-shark-attack repelled by EOGHAN QUIGG’s voting face; RICKY HATTON getting a piggy back round the studio; RONNIE CORBETT in a custard pie mix-up; a colossal brawl between George Best, Jim Morrison, Engelbert Humperdink, Michael Rennie, David Frost, Paul McCartney and Sean Connery; and HARRY is aghast as he finds out what’s been happening at Rosemary Shrager’s School For Cooks (“Both teams are boning like pros” … “I beg your pardon!” asks HARRY.)

On top of all that, the extras include the big collared comic’s favourite outtakes, plus never-seen-before funnies in the form of ‘Unseen TV Burp’: a bonus show in which Corrie’s KEVIN WEBSTER performs a cracking cover version of The Cars’ ‘Drive’, HARRY visits the sausage enclosure at the meat zoo, and BEAR GRYLLS falls in love with a puddle!

A busy autumn for HARRY has also seen the release of the first ever Harry Hill’s TV Burp Book, packed with all-new jokes, puzzles, parodies, cartoons and games written by HARRY exclusively for TV Burp’s literary debut.

Harry Hill’s TV Burp Gold 2 (cert 12), £19.99, ITV DVD 2009
(Running time 93 mins. Extras: Unseen TV Burp, Outtakes)
Release date: 9th November 2009

For more information please contact Ben Nolan or Dan Lloyd on: 020 7598 7222 / benn@avalonuk.com or danl@avalonuk.com

PRAISE FOR HARRY HILL’S TV BURP:

“There are very few comedy programmes that I simply know will have me howling with laughter. Harry Hill’s TV Burp is one of them. It’s ITV1’s comedy treasure: a supremely funny, silly, sideways, backwards, any way you like, view of TV…This is a comic rarity - a programme that any TV loving family can sit down and watch together.”
Alison Graham, Radio Times

“Harry Hill is becoming almost as important to ITV as his namesake Benny was in the last millennium … the freshest and most original show in mainstream television.”
Mark Lawson, The Guardian

“With two Baftas won this year (and not before time), it would seem the big-collared funnyman has officially achieved national treasure status.”
Nigel Andrew, ‘Weekend’ The Daily Mail

“The man oozes genius. And that knighthood of his - “for services to taking the pee out of soaps and stuff”, to quote the palace - can only be days away.”
Mike Ward, Daily Star

“The funniest and cleverest programme on television by a mile.”
Jeff Anderson (Bafta Committee - Observer interview)

“A rare and beautiful comedy hit that built an audience through word of mouth.”
Ally Ross, The Sun

“TV Burp is the funniest show on British television.”
Chris Moyles, BBC Radio 1

“Masterfully skewers all the cheapness, incompetence, sentimentality and contempt for the viewer we see on our screens.”
Simon Hoggart, The Spectator

“The only show that I series link.”
Ian Hyland, News of the World

“Harry Hill’s TV Burp is the only thing on TV that actually makes me laugh out loud.”
Peter Kay

“Of all our contemporary comedians - and at the moment there seems to be something of an EU mountain of them - Harry Hill is the one who strikes me as the most truly inspired … TV Burp is, I think, a work of comic genius, a perfect example of the purest comedy involving the full force of the liveliest imagination being put up against the silliest things.”
Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday

“Who would have thought that a bald man in a funny suit reviewing the week’s television would go down as the best thing ever to be broadcast on the box?”
Bryony Gordon, The Daily Telegraph

“Whoopee! Levels of excitement here in the TVeasy shack are so high surrounding the return of the wittiest and most consistently hilarious show on telly, it may be impossible to ever be excited by anything again. Not even if Christmas, Easter and Free Gin Thursdays were combined into one long holiday. Rightfully awarded a brace of BAFTAs earlier this year - and we’re sure that Harry won’t mention that - this gentle ribbing of last week’s TV is so outrageously inventive, it’s in a different league.”
Toby Earle, TV Easy

“I think one of the best things on TV just now is Harry Hill's TV Burp. It's great - it's on at 5.15pm and it's funnier than any show on Friday past 9pm. Because he can't use bad language, you get a wider range of comedy: satire, surrealism. He doesn't have to go for the guaranteed, quickfire response of swearing and getting a laugh... Anyone who can make my wife laugh . . . she had to watch Harry Hill kneeling on the floor once, doubled up."
Graham Linehan

“In comedy, Harry Hill on TV Burp produced the best thing on television, by sending up everything on the box, yet doing so from a position of deep affection. A warm and brilliant skill.”
Piers Morgan, Daily Mail

“What’s the best show on telly? There’s only one way to find out! By tuning into Harry Hill’s terrific TV Burp. Hillarious Hill’s razor sharp dissection of the nation’s favourite stupid soaps and other small screen tripe has returned to ITV in all its laugh-out-loud glory. Hooray for Harry!”
Kevin O’Sullivan, Sunday Mirror

“The funniest show on TV.”
Omid Djalili

“Always popular with TV fans, the comedian never fails to deliver laughs as he gets stuck into the week’s television highlights.”
Colin Tough, What’s on TV

“Loads and loads of people have tried clip shows and presumably they are relatively straightforward and cheap to make, but nobody actually does them better than Harry Hill.”
Simon Mayo, The Simon Mayo Show BBC Radio 5 Live

“… So plonk yourself in front of the TV tonight… and wallow in the sheer insanity of this masterly comic who makes me laugh more than anyone on the planet.”
Lorraine Kelly, The Sun

"An out-and-out comic look at telly... which I think is brilliant by the way."
Charlie Brooker, The Guardian

“Despite TV Burp now being a regular Saturday evening fixture, Harry Hill has managed to keep as fresh and funny as ever, helped no doubt by his talented writing team and the demented offerings of BBC3 (especially shows such as Freaky Eaters). We never know what he’ll be covering (apart from the soaps, of course), we only know this is unbeatable TV.”
Boyd Hilton, Heat

“Whatever you do, don’t miss the treasurable Harry Hill’s TV Burp.”
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian

“Give Harry a pat on the back - this is one of the funniest shows on TV.”
Alison Gardner, TV Times

“We love Harry Hill, of course. The whole country loves Harry Hill. Someone said that he doesn’t so much make fun of TV, but of the grammar of TV - and that is so true. He’s all about exposing the mechanisms, and the clichés. And don’t you find yourself watching TV now and going, ‘Oooh! Harry Hill’s going to have that!’?”
Russell T. Davies - interview in The Times

“For so long the Cinderella of the ITV1 Saturday night schedule, Hill is finally getting recognition for his leftfield look at TV - not least his two Baftas. Chief among Hill’s skills is thinking about telly in the odd way that he does and communicating his genuine love for the medium … TV Burp is a treat.”
Gareth McLean, The Guardian

“The big-collared comedian’s refreshingly clean TV review show was finally given the recognition it deserves when it won a British Comedy Award this month. Satire and the surreal combine in a deceptively frothy show - a veritable Christmas feast of madcap observations, impersonations and sketches.”
David Chater, The Times

“Easily the best thing on television.”
Tom Cullen, ShortList

“You might expect a television programme about television programmes to be self-indulgent and smug. Not this one. Eight series in, TV Burp only gets funnier. Harry Hill’s look at the week’s television is essential.”
Michael Deacon, The Daily Telegraph

“By far the funniest thing on TV - and you don’t even have to watch the soaps he’s on about.”
Jonathan Pile, Zoo

“Anyone who thinks this isn’t the funniest show on telly needs taking out and shooting with a sense-of-humour cannon.”
Andrew Dickens, Nuts

“Probably the funniest show on TV - in our opinion anyway - Harry Hill returns for the eighth series of his multi-award winning show that pokes fun at the best and worst of telly. It’s no wonder he won two BAFTAs earlier this year. Must remember to wear incontinence pants during the show!”
Helen Fear, Reveal

“A maverick television addict who somehow manages to pick up on particular features and nuances in programmes that pass many of us by. Conspicuously respectful rather than ruthless, in an age when other comedians cannot resist the urge to take satire to positively ludicrous lengths, he deserves credit for not being overly critical or crass.”
Mike McKinnon, Observer

“I swear I haven’t laughed so hard since the days Morecambe & Wise were at their effortless peak”
Richard Madeley, The Express

“How many ways can we say we love this programme?”
Karen Hyland, Star Magazine

“Fresh from his double triumph at the British Comedy Awards - and his chortlesome contribution to the Christmas TV schedules - Harry turns his (usually) indulgent gaze to the past few days’ TV offerings. It’s the first of a new series and, as usual, just about the funniest thing on all week.”
Adrian Pettet, Sunday Express

“There’s something of 70s stars such as Benny Hill, Kenny Everett, and even Eric & Ernie about Harry Hill that Bill cotton would have appreciated. He’s intelligent but appeals to children, adventurous to be unpredictable. He’s totally English, a bit mad - and great family entertainment.”
Jim Shelley, The Mirror