Last night was the final episode in the current block of TV Burp, Ed Kavalee’s local version of Harry Hill’s TV Burp.
While the show hasn’t exactly set the ratings world on fire, it’s not without its fans or indeed its charms.
The show has also had no less than three timeslot changes in its short life: 9pm, 8:30 and 9:30.
Contrary to some rumours, the show has not been axed.
TV Tonight hears Seven is interested in returning the show, potentially in a later slot, but there are some production issues to address first. One is the expense it takes for researchers / writers to source material. They deserve a medal for sitting through some of that crap in the hope of finding a moment to add to the running sheet. Editing would also be a big factor.
And then there’s the question of whether it really needs a studio audience.
TV Burp is the kind of show that could settle nicely into a late night slot without so much pressure, and might be worth repackaging without the need to be such a punchline show.
The more expensive Double Take on the other hand doesn’t seem to have offered anything particularly new in the sketch comedy genre. It may well have scared commercial networks off taking a similar risk for some time…
Just to let you know that this is a great show and Channel 7 should put it back on! me and my mates miss it and i don’t understand how Channel 7 put re-runs of Double Take sometimes and they don’t even put this show back on! Its ridicules! Put TV Back On Please!
Sorry Aussies, but I’ve seen clips of your version on youtube, and I can confirm that our own Harry Hill owns the show!
Glad to see this gone. This show became nothing more than a platform for Channel 7 to hang cheap laughs on other networks. “Nothing is sacred” yet they dedicate entire episodes to bagging out Ch9 and Ch10 and in fact the only time they mention a Ch7 program is when it’s used as free cross-over advertising.
The canned laughter was awful too. You know a show is bad when you can’t even get a live audience to laugh at your jokes. For the love of god Ed, stick to radio.
judging by Ed’s appearance on GNW last night it doesn’t seem likely tv burp will be back, he didn’t seem to believe it would.
I used to tape it as I had football training on a Thursday night… it was probably the only funny show on TV (the only one I laughed out loud to anyway).. This gets cancelled and two and a half men is on 50 times a day the world truly is unfair!
Well it worked for Hey Hey!
I loved TV Burp. I hung out for it all week! I resent comments that the show was trying to be like E!’s ‘The Soup’. Tv Burp was clever with a wonderfuly entertaining, Charming, humerous and attractive host. I really hope they bring it back! If not, I will start a petition to bring it back!
If they bring back double take and not tv burp i will never watch 7 again (not like thats hard to do anyway)
Each and every Thursday for the past 5 weeks I have based my whole entire night around the TV Burp episode.
It was seriously the best thing on TV which is ironic because it parodies TV shows. I have never laughed so hysterically during a show until I watched TV Burp. Pure Genius.
When I discovered this week it wasn’t on I was devastated, but now that I know it may make a reappearence I am very relieved.
Reminising on the show and I can think of so many moments of laughter. For now I will need to re-watch it on Youtube
TV Burp was good. Double Take wasn’t.
Adding to the chorus of fans, just in case someone at Seven is reading.
At least this show made me laugh … more than i can say for the other so called comedy on TV (except maybe Double Take) … again, the good shows are mistreated by the networks … so very, very tired of their stupidity …
Jack!
The audience helps to decide what makes it in the show and what gets cut.
This might come as a shock to some of the haters but not everything that gets recorded makes it into the episode. Some is cut for time I’m sure but also if something doesn’t get a good reaction from the audience it won’t make it to the final edit.
I personally wouldn’t mind no audience but it does reduce the in-studio/immediate feedback the creative team gets to the content.
I also have no doubt that some of the laughter is “canned”, because like every non-live show it is edited between shooting and going on air and they record some clean laughter track to drop in, but I’m sure it’s not just pasted in willy-nilly over every gag.
TV Burp is a Wonderland amongst the Thursday wasteland.
This is the only show guaranteed to make me laugh every week
Ed’s great hosting is up there with Shaun Micallef’s (always enjoyed those two in Thank God You’re Here).
They should move it to the 10.30pm slot on either Monday or Tuesday.
Love, love, love this show!! It’s guaranteed to have me in tears of laughter. I’ve watched it every week despite the time-slot changes and have never been disappointed. Please Channel 7, do not get rid of this! As far as people saying it’s canned laughter… I’ve never once thought it was canned… easily a studio audience. Do they need it…? To me it wouldn’t make a difference.
Love this show. It better be back asap. Host is great and the content is awesome.
This show will go the way of Out of the Question.
Nice fresh show with a funny host. I hope it will be back soon. You can keep double take, its lame and very much the same as we haveseen about 20 years ago in the comedy company and fast forward. We have evolved from that.
Loved last nights “Don’t you have it when you’re narrating a programme and your accent changes mid-sentece”
Hey I loved them both. Maybe I just like Amanda Bishop, she had some excellent one-off sketches, but I also love Moot Review with Kerry Armslength. They were promoting the benefits of Asbestos last week … priceless.
Tv burp is good
double take is bad
Every comment here is positive for TV Burp. I quite like it, too. I wonder why its ratings are so poor?
I hope they decide it’s more suitable to late night slot as this show clearly has an cult-like following…
As mentioned, the more expensive, and little to offer, Double Take should never have made it to air.
Meals on Wheels was brilliant last night! What a shocking ad for the show! I was in stitches! Bloody Brilliant!
TV Burp is by far one of the funniest shows on TV right now – I could not stop laughing at last night’s edition, and Ed is just hilarious.
I stayed around to watch Double Take, but quickly got bored. So happy it now airs after TV Burp. And I really hope TB stays around for a lot longer.
I love TV Burp, makes me laugh after a long day at uni. Ed is fantastic. I hope it doesn’t get axed. Seven please do something right *pleads*
I love TV Burp and I hope it comes back whatever the time! Last nights show had me lol almost the whole 30 minutes and that’s rare.
only started watching burp after reading all the bad posts about this show, i watched it and think its very good light hearted entertainment, will continue to watch, i liked double take as well
I was actually surprised to learn this show even has a studio audience, given the canned laughter is so obvious.
I don’t mind the format, but can only think how much funnier it could be if Shaun Micallef was doing it.
Ed.. I love your show. I’m here for you.
It is nonsense tv and it does not pretend to be anything else. DT on the other hand tries to be funny which it ain’t. TVB, I like, 30mins where I can turn off and not have to think. Hopefully it comes back after being tweaked. So much for 7′s no lemon policy in regards to DT.
@Selma
the show needs to go to one of the breaks (maybe the first or middle one) with the “fight” sequence of the UK Burp, that is a big part of why the show is a success in the UK, it also involves the studio audience shouting “fight”
TV Burp fight videos in YouTube pretty much shows the set up and “fight” sequence
Should be noted that in the UK we only have one ad break in the show, so we only need one sequence like this to go into the break
I thought it was great. I’ve always been a big fan of Ed Kavalee since discovering him on Get This with Tony and the late, great, Richard. I think they should just get rid of Double Take – surely that must cost so much more to make, and invest in this show, there are a lot more laughs (I didn’t laugh once through the 15 minutes of Double Take I watched last night, but laughed all the way through Burp), the format works – it just needs to find a consistent timeslot and the audience will hopefully follow.
I’m really hoping it returns for another season. In terms of cost cutting, axing the studio audience is a no-brainer, and maybe getting rid of the guest appearances at the end of the programs (e.g. the singing life guard).
Some tips for TV Burp if it returns (which it almost certainly will not):
1. Drop the canned laughter (Yes, I know the show has a studio audience, but you can still have canned laughter with a studio audience – ie. Rove US edition, Glass House, The Panel etc. etc.).
2. Improve the set – it looks so cheap.
3. Go to each break with a TV trivia question rather than a lame throw-away like “We’ll be back after this break”.
I really wanted to like this show, but Ed just seems to put on a character, if it was delivered a bit more naturally, I would watch, but as it currently is the delivery just puts me off…sad because I quite like Ed’s work, quite like the concept, but just wish he’d drop the character!
I suggest they give Harry Hill a plane ticket to Australia, along with his writers.
It’s been axed.
End of story.
Double take has to be one of the least funniest sketch shows ever on australian tv
i dont mind this show actually, its very hit and miss, the good moments are laugh out loud funny but when it falls flat its so cringeworthy that you want to hide behind a cushion…I agree with taking away the audience…it cant be to expensive to produce so would be good if seven stuck with it, could make good late night or even early saturday evening fodder..
Given the format is licenced from the UK though, i wouldnt think seven would be allowed to make wholesale changes to it though.
The material in TV Burp is quite good and clever. However, the overall look is awful! It feels very very cheap. A little more production quality would make the world of difference. Just look at Talk Soup. It is quite successful in the US.
I think Ed is a great host of the show and I love the randomness of the guests. Every week, I hold out to see who they’ve got coming in. The best guest would have to be Andrew O’Keefe with his 99 Luftbalons. Brilliant. I do hope the show comes back for another season.
Did TV Burp really have a live audience, or was it just laughs in a can? I was convinced after one airing that it was just Ed at a desk all alone, with a laugh track over the top. Not once has there been a shot of the audience, and I don’t understand why they would want one?? Doesn’t seem like the sort of show that really benefits from it?
Thank God these crap shows will be off the air!!
TV Burp has a staff of writers??? Geez, I could write better one liners myself.
Never laughed during either show. The sketch show is dead and buried.
this should stay
I love Burp. It is just silly good nonesense and fresh. I would like to see it go for an hour !
I loved this show, but after it was on at 8:30 1 week and then wasn’t the next I assumed it had been cancelled. Didn’t realise it went to 9:30. So I missed a few eps. Damn!
Fingers crossed Channel 7 can find a spot for TV Burp on their schedule. The first season had it’s up and downs but was one of the more enjoyable Aussie comedies to have come along in a while.
Damn I forgot to watch it again…
does it need a studio audience? I know the UK version thrives on it, but the Aussie version is missing a few key features which require a studio audience, the fight sequence for example.
Whilst the aussie version does not make use of the an audience, maybe that itself is wrong, and having the audience to feed off of might help Ed who can be a little bland at times.
I do actually think that this version works better in the later timeslots, im not sure why that is, but there a few points I would like to make at this stage
1) More recurring gags, last series Harry Hill had “knitted character” and “ride the jelly” as recurring gags, the comedy getting better & better each time we saw them. Ed does start to make some but never really manages it.
2) Aussie TV is clearly a very different market to the UK one, hence why this version features so much US & UK shows, but please stop featuring shows from the 70s, that is just not right.
There is some good stuff in 7s TV Burp, but its not up to the same standard as the UK version.