Genre: | Comedy Panel show |
Creator: | Harry Hill |
Director: | Geraldine Dowd |
Editor: | Steve Nayler Mobashir Dar |
Presenter: | Harry Hill |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Num Series: | 3 |
Num Episodes: | 22 |
Executive Producer: | Murray Boland Harry Hill Danielle Lux |
Producer: | Alan Thorpe |
Location: | The London Studios (2017-2018) Pinewood Studios (2019) |
Runtime: | 30 minutes (including adverts) |
Company: | Nit Television |
Network: | ITV |
Related: | Harry Hill's TV Burp |
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule is a British television comedy panel show created, written and presented by Harry Hill and produced by his company Nit Television for ITV. The series began on 2 March 2017 and follows Hill and a group of celebrity guest panelists trying to find funny things to convince an alien invasion that the earth is worth saving. A second series began on 14 April 2018.[1] A third series of the show was commissioned by ITV and started on 8 June 2019.[2] On 4 February 2020, it was confirmed that ITV had cancelled the programme.[3]
The show revolves on Hill trying to fill an "alien fun capsule" with funny things so that aliens will not invade. Regular segments include "Local News Round-Up", where Hill and the guests sing a short song about strange headlines from the local news, Hill performing a short skit with 'Alan the Alien' to decide what the next round will be, a 'what happens next' segment, taken from You've Been Framed, where Hill shows a clip before the start of the ads and a song at the end of the show.
1 | 1 | "Episode 1" | 2 March 2017 | Kelvin Fletcher | Sara Pascoe | Patrick Robinson | Josh Widdicombe | |
2 | 2 | "Episode 2" | 9 March 2017 | Kathy Burke | Joe Lycett | Ainsley Harriott | Lorraine Kelly | |
3 | 3 | "Episode 3" | 16 March 2017 | Mel Giedroyc | Bridget Christie | Eamonn Holmes | Judith Chalmers | |
4 | 4 | "Episode 4" | 23 March 2017 | Sally Lindsay | Phillip Glenister | Joe Lycett | Sara Cox | |
5 | 5 | "Episode 5" | 30 March 2017 | Ross Noble | David O'Doherty | Raleigh Ritchie | Gloria Hunniford | |
6 | 6 | "Episode 6" | 6 April 2017 | Nina Wadia | Fay Ripley | Nish Kumar | Des O'Connor | |
7 | 7 | "Episode 7" | 13 April 2017 | Various | Various | Various | Various |
8 | 1 | "Episode 1" | 14 April 2018 | Sally Dynevor | Robert Peston | Micky Flanagan | Anneka Rice | |
9 | 2 | "Episode 2" | 21 April 2018 | Moira Stuart | Kara Tointon | Tom Davis | Suzanne Packer | |
10 | 3 | "Episode 3" | 28 April 2018 | Johnny Vegas | Samantha Giles | Sue Johnston | Jimmy Osmond | |
11 | 4 | "Episode 4" | 5 May 2018 | Una Stubbs | Janet Street-Porter | Alex Brooker | Jordan Stephens | |
12 | 5 | "Episode 5" | 12 May 2018 | Gaynor Faye | Anita Rani | Cannon and Ball | Robert Winston | |
13 | 6 | "Episode 6" | 19 May 2018 | Rosemary Shrager | Liza Tarbuck | Peter Davison | Louis Walsh | |
14 | 7 | "Episode 7" | 26 May 2018 | Charlie Brooks | Chizzy Akudolu | Lolly Adefope | Carol Vorderman | |
15 | 8 | "Episode 8 - Unseen" | 9 June 2018 | Various | Various | Various | Various |
16 | 1 | "Episode 1" | 8 June 2019 | Martine McCutcheon | Les Dennis | Alison Hammond | Tom Courtenay | |
17 | 2 | "Episode 2" | 15 June 2019 | Kevin Whately | Konnie Huq | Georgia Taylor | Bill Roache | |
18 | 3 | "Episode 3" | 22 June 2019 | Krishnan Guru-Murthy | Stephanie Beacham | Pam Ferris | Tom Allen | |
19 | 4 | "Episode 4" | 29 June 2019 | Chris Packham | Chelsee Healey | The Krankies | Pam St Clement | |
20 | 5 | "Episode 5" | 6 July 2019 | Nick Helm | Jennie Bond | Angellica Bell | Patrick Mower | |
21 | 6 | "Episode 6" | 13 July 2019 | Warwick Davis | Charlie Dimmock | Kelly Brook | Sarah Greene | |
22 | 7 | "Episode 7" | 20 July 2019 | Josh Widdicombe | Amanda Barrie | Samantha Womack | Michael Buerk |