Picture Special: The K Factor

A great new picture for you from Harry’s site, featuring the K Factor judges and Knitted Holly Willoughby. To enter the K Factor, check out the details here.

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Harry takes a road trip with Jo

Harry took the road trip with Jo Whiley on her BBC Radio 1 show on Sunday 31st. To listen to the journey, visit Jo’s page on the BBC Radio 1 website.

Register Now for Official Knitted Character Merchandise

EXCLUSIVE! You can now register to get your Official Knitted Character and Knitted Character Merchandise over at our friends and creators of the Knitted Character, Cloth Ears.

To register, visit Cloth Ears to get on the list.

TV Burp – 6th February 2010

TV Burp is on tonight (Saturday) at 7pm on ITV1 and repeated through the week, with YBF! beforehand. Last week’s episode has 6.6m (29%) and YBF! had 5.6m, both beating Soy You Think You Can Dance, who had 4.5m. For more, visit The Guardian, Chortle, Brand Republic and Digital-i. The poll results were 87% great, 12% good, 1% ok and 0% bad!

To get in contact with your views, get in contact via Twitter, using @harryhillfans and #tvburp, and Facebook.

The poll is below – get voting!

Fair Fashion for Harry

Extending Harry’s Fairtrade work, Harry will be appearing in a video at the Fairwear Fashion Show 2010 on 25th February.

The two shows (4pm, 7pm), which are on during London Fashion Week, is in Bristol and will feature Harry Potter star Emma Watson’s fairtrade range, ranges from Debenhams, Laura Ashley and many more. The show is endorsed by the Fairtrade Foundation and the Ethical Fashion Forum, with all Fairwear fashion houses using certified Fairtrade cotton or are members of the World Fair Trade Organisation.

Star of Casualty James Redmond will be compère for the fashion show and Tara Starlet from BBC Three’s “Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts” will also be at the event.

For more details, visit fairwearfashionshow.org.uk and book your ticket for one of the two show here.

Tees Bally Fibber: And the winners are…

Thanks for all the entries for the Tees Bally Fibber competition. HHF is please to announce that the winners are Susan Nisar (@soggykipper) and Tracy Rollings (@tracey1972). Congratulations!

If you have missed out, you can still buy a copy of the book from Amazon.co.uk for £6.99 now.

Have you got the K Factor?

TV Burp has got a brand new competition, The K Factor. To enter, here are the important details:

If you think you’ve got the K Factor, email in a photo of your knitted item and we’ll choose our favourites to feature on the show each week.

You’ll be able to vote for your favourite each week and the overall winner of the K Factor Final at the end of the series will take home 8 balls of wool, a TV Burp book and DVD, a bag of Harry’s Nuts, your very own knitted character and the coveted K Factor Trophy.

All you have to do to enter is email us a photo of your knitted item to TheKFactor@itv.com

• Your name (entrant must be 16 or over)
• Daytime contact telephone number
• Mobile phone number if you have one
• Tell us a little bit about what the item is and why you chose to knit it
• Don’t forget to attach the photo!

If you are under 16, you’ll need to ask your parent or guardian to enter your item for you. Just get them to send an email with all the information above along with your name, age and a note on the email that they are entering on your behalf.

Please do not post your knitted item to the studio. We only need to see photos of them for now.

All entries must be received by 2pm on Thursday 4th March, but we’ll be picking some to feature on the show each week until then, so get knitting ASAP!

Click here for full terms and conditions

Good luck!

TV Burp gets into (knitting) pattern!

With the return of TV Burp tonight and the success of the Knitted Character, the world of knitting is colliding with the world of TV Burp, according to The Sun! Check out The Sun for the new knitting slot this week, The K Factor!

TV Burp – 30th January 2010

TV Burp returns tonight (Saturday) with a brand new series, starting at 7pm on ITV1 and repeated through the week. Also, YBF! returns for a new series beforehand at 6.30pm.

TV Burp is recommended viewing by TV and Film Guide x2 x3, California Chronicle, Dan’s Media Digest, Mark Nolan, UK TV Guide, Churmura, What’s On TV, Daily Star, Den of Geek and Heat World.

In other TV Burp news, you can now get TV Burp Gold 2 on itunes, priced at £4.99 – bargain!

To get in contact with your views, get in contact via Twitter, using @harryhillfans and #tvburp, and Facebook.

The poll also returns below – get voting!

Web Burp – Awards, Top 100, Halfmoon and More

Here are the latest items of Harry news, condensed for your delectation:

• Harry Hill Fansite’s poll has made the news! Comedy.co.uk reported our poll results showing fans don’t want Harry on Sky1. Talking of Comedy.co.uk, Harry came third for TV Burp in the Best British TV Panel Show/Satire in their 2009 awards.
• Channel 4 are redoing their 100 greatest comedians list. Harry has previously came in at number 5th place on the last version. For more, visit Chortle and to vote, visit Channel 4.
• There was no win for Harry at the NTAs, losing out to Gavin and Stacey, the Broadcast awards, losing out to Outnumbered, and at the LAFTAs, losing out to JLC and The Inbetweeners.
  • Visit for Online Betting Alerts, ATV News Network, The Mirror, Comedy.co.uk, STV x2, The Guardian x2, Wales Online, Sky News, Daily Record, Holy Moly, ITN, Mark Nolan and California Chronicle for the NTAs.
  • Visit Comedy.co.uk for the Broadcast Awards.
  • Visit Comedy.co.uk x2, Chortle x2, STV, List, TV Scoop and Comedy Central for LAFTAs.
• Harry has recently performed at the Halfmoon in Putney, which has now been saved from closure. For more, visit Flickr (more on Flicker), Spoonfed, This Is Local London, Sky News, B Flat Productions, BBC x2, Epsom Guardian and London Evening Standard (with Sir Tom Courtenay).
• Harry was mentioned in a Private Eye article on Simon Singh and Jonathan Ross, TV Cream has mentioned Harry with regards to ITV’s election night coverage, U Kno Wot I Mean has polled the most wanted fights for TV Burp, The Guardian’s Media Talk has mentioned the potential Sky1 move and Unreality TV have discussed their love for Harry.
• Julie Walters has said that when shaving her hair off for her role as Mo Mowlam, she has said she was compared to Harry. For more, visit The Telegraph, The Sun, What’s On TV and Daily Mail.
• Harry was interviewed on BBC Radio 1’s The Chris Moyles Show last Thursday and today on BBC Radio 2 with Steve Wright (available on BBC iplayer).

And finally, a picture that popped up on Harry’s site a few weeks back. It the TV Burp team at the British Comedy Awards, as taken by Dan Maier:

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