ITV have revealed their Autumn television line up, with Harry Hill and Al Murray both returning to Saturday evenings.

The two very different standup acts bookend a new season of television starting in September with the new variety show For One Night Only vying for press attention against The X Factor.

ITV have got the big guns out, and further demarkating Saturday nights as commercial television territory for that period of the year when the BBC don’t have Doctor Who on.

The big news of course is the return of QC favourites Al Murray and Harry Hill.  Harry Hill’s TV Burp is easily the most consistently funny comedy show on television, while Al Murray’s Happy Hour is a marvellous update of the Dame Edna Experience format.

Not before time, give those two men a raise and time at the bar please!

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So massive congratulations to Harry Hill, whose TV Burp has received a worthy honour from the British Academy and earned its wings at last, after several years of Saturday tea-time madness.

He deserves nothing less for at the very least arranging fights between different foodstuffs, slow elderly people and animals, and providing superb comedy relief on a Saturday before Primeval starts.

Hill himself was typically bonkers on the night, but it was a superb result only tempered by the ridiculous arse kissing that took place giving Gavin and Stacey success in the face of stronger and funnier competition.

Congratulations also to Bruce Forsyth, who after celebrating his 80th birthday this year was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship, the academy’s highest honour.  All those spinning wheels and prat falls, dancing having a rant at the camera must have seemed worth it, eh Brucie?

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Ah…. Harry Hill’s TV Burp continues to entertain every Saturday evening, with the unique slant on the week’s television drawing in millions of viewers every Saturday tea time.

Hill does get a lot of coverage here on Quintessential Comedy, but there’s a reason for that – he’s bloody good.

Backed up by a great team of writers, he makes the audience laugh and laugh on a weekly basis, something almost unheard of in the modern age in a prime time slot.

He’s been on screen for 14 years, and there’s absolutely no reason why he cannot continue to entertain viewers for at least another 14.

It may be early days, but I would personally rank Harry Hill among the great British comics.

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That’s right - Gervais turned up on Harry Hill’s TV Burp this week, closing off a montage of celebrities exclaiming “Ear Cataracts?!?” We said recently that he dreams of Hill’s audience figures, and this just underlines it!

Alright, alright, Ricky Gervais isn’t quite as bad as I might make him out to be - he can obviously laugh at himself, and he has done remarkably well.

But his rise has been far too quick, there are better comics and writers out there who deserve to receive the adulation that the press have unfairly laid at the “Fat Chancer’s” feet, and it would be nice for Mitchell & Webb, Ben Miller, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, Paul Merton and Jack Dee to all appear in Hollywood movies.

Congratulations to Harry Hill, meanwhile - a superb series, the best yet.