CPL Productions & Comedian Harry Hill Announce Joint Venture

LONDON: Independent outfit CPL Productions has struck a joint-venture deal with comedian Harry Hill to launch Nit TV, which already has projects slated for Sky and BBC.

First up is a two-season deal with Sky for the comedy cookery show Harry Hill’s Tea-Time, an 8×30-minute program featuring special star guests. Nit TV has also tied up a script-development deal with BBC for a sitcom created by and starring Hill, based on his comic memoir Livin’ the Dreem: A Year In My Life…Probably.

Danielle Lux, CPL Productions’s managing director, commented: “We’re overjoyed to be collaborating with Harry Hill, one of the U.K.’s most popular and unique performers over the last two decades. His creative vision and irreverent approach is a perfect fit for CPL.”

CPL Productions’s creative director, Murray Boland, added: “We love Harry and these fantastic deals with Sky and the BBC are just the start of a dynamic and lively future for Nit TV.”

Hill remarked: “It’s great to be working with Danielle and Murray at CPL and finally finding a permanent home for all my TV ideas. This new teatime show is a natural fit for Sky—we’re both risk takers! The sitcom idea is one that’s been bubbling under for a while and I’m looking forward to working with Shane Allen at BBC Comedy who’s been a great supporter of mine.”