Harry Hill moves to kids' TV

Harry Hill is to become a children’s entertainer.

The comic will front a13-week show Shark Infested Custard on ITV this autumn.

The half-hour show will be based on his manic stand-up, although aimed at eight- to 12-year-olds rather than adults.

Regular features will include:

• Plastered Celebrity, children will have to guess which well-known personality has been covered in plaster
• Help the Aged, a gameshow in which children and their grandmothers compete
• A recurring character called Speed Camera Boy,  who is half-boy, half-speed camera.
• Pet Idol, when children’s talented pets challenge Harry’s menagerie, including such oddities as a tap-dancing armadillo called Natasha Kaplinsky and a tightrope-walking frog called Jacques Chirac.

The show will be recorded in a Teddington Studios from next month in front of an audience of hundreds of youngsters – who will also be asked to choose the woman with the most annoying laugh or vegetables that look like Harry.

The show is being made by Avalon Television, the production arm of the company that manages him.

Richard Allen-Turner, joint managing director of the company, said: “Harry has always attracted a dedicated following of younger fans and as a parent himself I know Harry is looking forward to producing a series specifically for kids.”

Published: 3 Aug 2005