Television
Paul is the host and co-writer of Steam Punks, a narrative game show on ABC 3, produced by Beyond Entertainment. Steam Punks airs every Sunday at 5.25pm, and Paul was described by The Australian as "a revelation as host... a mix of Basil Fawlty, Oliver Reed and Johnny Depp".
Verhoeven co-hosted and wrote for Planet Nerd, a geek comedy programme on Channel 31 Melbourne, which was nominated for Best Comedy Program in the 2008 Antenna Awards. Reviewer Marieke Hardy referred to him as "the hot one".
He wrote and presented an online television series entitled Curiageous, a comedic mythbusting series, for the Australian online news site, The Vine. Among other things, he drank his own urine and had his arse waxed.
He narrated Stop Rewind, a 13-part documentary series on ABC 2, which he described as "truly awful".
He was a presenter on two seasons of Save Point, a gaming show on ONE HD, which began its second season in 2012.
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“Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)