...and developing a sitcom for the BBC

Harry Hill is to front a new series for Sky 1 that’s part chat show and part fake cookery programme.

And he is also developing a sitcom with the BBC based on his comic memoir Livin’ The Dreem: A Year In My Life…Probably.

The Sky project, Harry Hill’s Tea-Time, also promises to ’cast a comedy eye’ over other cookery programmes, evoking the spirit of TV Burp.

The comic has signed a two-series deal with the broadcaster, with the first eight-part run to air in autumn this year and a second series following in 2017.

Hill said he was ‘excited to know that my programmes will now be broadcast via satellite so that aliens will be able to watch them’. 

  The blurb for the programme says: ‘While Harry teaches his guests how to cook his ridiculous recipes, such as "mozzarella snowmen" and "sponge-finger prison" he interviews them in his own unique way. Harry then garnishes the chat with TV show clips, from shows that his guests have appeared in, to comical observations taken from the cookery TV genre.’

Meanwhile, the sitcom based on his memoirs promises tall tales from his allegedly celebrity-filled life at home with his mum in Bexhill, East Sussex.

The comic said: ‘The sitcom idea is one that’s been bubbling under for a while and I’m looking forward to working with Shane Allen at BBC comedy, who’s been a great supporter of mine.’

Published: 7 Apr 2016