In 1999 a TV documentary about Fury called "Halfway to Paradise" was broadcast on the BBC channel, narrated by Ian Dury. Between 1999 and 2000, the song "Wondrous Place", a favourite of Fury's (he re-recorded it at least three times during his career), later received wide airplay on British television when it was used as the theme for a Toyota Yaris car advertisement. In 2005, Spencer Leigh from BBC Radio Merseyside published a biography book about Fury called "Wondrous Face – The Billy Fury Story". In 2008, a biographical documentary film "Billy Fury: His Wondrous Story" was released on DVD.