According to The Sun, the new series of Harry Hill's TV Burp - starting on ITV1 on Saturday - will be his last. The 46-year-old comic has been making TV Burp since 2002 and has reportedly turned down a one-million pound pay rise. An ITV source said of TV Burp: "Harry kept telling people how much he hated doing it, but they thought he was joking. He wasn't." Harry, 46, said the Bafta-winning programme's punishing schedule had put his personal life under too much strain, and he now plans to focus on a new project with Simon Cowell — writing gags for X Factor The Musical. In June Harry joked that working on the show had left him 'suicidal', adding: "It is a drag. One year I did 21 shows — most series are only eight. At the end of it I was completely mental." An ITV spokesman insisted it had a 'great relationship' with Harry and said another series would be shown in 2012. But a spokesman at TV Burps' production firm Avalon said: "Harry has a lot of commitments in the next year, but a final decision has not yet been reached." SUBSCRIBE to TV Times magazine NOW and you could save up to 29%
