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| Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule | |
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| Genre | Comedy Panel show |
| Created by | Harry Hill |
| Written by | Harry Hill |
| Directed by | Geraldine Dowd |
| Presented by | Harry Hill |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Murray Boland Harry Hill Danielle Lux |
| Producer | Alan Thorpe |
| Production locations | The London Studios (2017-2018) Pinewood Studios (2019) |
| Editors | Steve Nayler Mobashir Dar |
| Running time | 30 minutes (including adverts) |
| Production company | Nit Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 2 March 2017 (2017-03-02) – 20 July 2019 (2019-07-20) |
| 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. A third series of the show was commissioned by ITV and started on 8 June 2019. On 4 February 2020, it was confirmed that ITV had cancelled the programme.
Format
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.
Episodes
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 7 | 2 March 2017 (2017-03-02) | 13 April 2017 (2017-04-13) | |
| 2 | 8 | 14 April 2018 | 9 June 2018 | |
| 3 | 7 | 8 June 2019 | 20 July 2019 | |
Series 1 (2017)
| No. overall | No, in series | Episode | Date | Panelist 1 | Panelist 2 | Panelist 3 | Panelist 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Series 2 (2018)
| No. overall | No, in series | Episode | Date | Panelist 1 | Panelist 2 | Panelist 3 | Panelist 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Series 3 (2019)
| No. overall | No, in series | Episode | Date | Panelist 1 | Panelist 2 | Panelist 3 | Panelist 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
References
- "Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule gets a second encounter : News 2017 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide".
- "ITV orders more Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule". British Comedy Guide. 17 September 2018.
- "ITV confirms Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule fate". Digital Spy. 4 February 2020.
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