Harry Hill has talked about how hard it was working on his hit show TV Burp on Desert Island Discs.

Talking to presenter Lauren Laverne he said: "I made a lot of TV shows, and most of them have been a lot less successful than TV Burp, but I don't look back at those years particularly fondly because of that stress," he said.

"I would start the week with no show, knowing that on Saturday morning I'd have to sit down and write a show. We'd work one week in advance, off preview tapes, so I'd sit down with a blank page on a Saturday, and at the end of that day I'd have to email it to the producer."

Hill and his team of writers would "watch TV all day long, there were no shortcuts, you did actually have to watch the full two-and-a-half hours of Emmerdale".

"The best day was the recording day, but if you ask my wife, every time I came back from a recording, I'd go upstairs, she'd be in bed, and I'd say 'I've got to get out of this'. It was bad.

"But then I'd watch it on the Saturday and think it was great, I did really enjoy watching it."

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