Television and Radio
As an actor, Ball briefly appeared as Malcolm Nuttall in Coronation Street in 1985.
Ball has also turned his hand to presenting both on TV and radio. Ball had his own TV series in 1993 and 1994 a Christmas Special in 1995 and a 3 part series in 1998 filmed by BBC Wales Ball in the Hall. These three episodes were combined together to make a special which was then broadcast on BBC 1. Ball has presented The National Lottery and Children in Need. He also co-hosted This Morning for a short period whilst the usual presenters took a break.
Ball had his own series on TV and radio, Ball over Broadway on BBC Radio 2, which is in its fourth season, The Greenroom, and several specials for BBC Radio 2 on subjects such as Nat King Cole, Cameron Mackintosh, and Cy Coleman.
On television, Ball presented two more National Lottery Shows for the BBC on 27 December and 30 December 2006. Ball kicked 2007 off by co-judging the second series of ITV1 reality television show Soapstar Superstar. This was broadcast from 5–13 January. Ball spent the week in Manchester filming the series. Critics of the show have compared him to "a poor mans Neil Sean". However he was widely considered a truthful judge who gave constructive criticism to contestants.
In 2010 Ball took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about his Welsh family history.
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Famous quotes containing the words television and/or radio:
“Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy.... In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.”
—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)