Television
Perkins has been a presenter on Channel 4's RI:SE and appeared in Celebrity Big Brother during 2002 in aid of a number of charities. During the series she had some notable dancing moments with eventual winner Mark Owen of Take That. She has made numerous appearances on BBC TV shows Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, QI, Room 101, Celebrity Weakest Link, Question Time and Newsnight; she has often joked that the BBC pay her a regular wage for "blabbering on random shows". She made notable appearances as a 'field reporter' for Armando Iannucci vehicle The Saturday Night Armistice.
Perkins hosted Good Evening, Rockall (second series), a short-lived news orientated panel game shown on BBC Choice. She appeared in BBC Four's 2006 language quiz show Never Mind the Full Stops. She was also a team captain on ITV's Win, Lose or Draw Late, appeared on Celebrity MasterChef in 2006, performed in early 2007 on Celebrity Poker and News Knight with Sir Trevor McDonald in 2007.
In April 2007, she participated in Edwardian Supersize Me for the BBC with food critic Giles Coren, spending a week eating the equivalent of a wealthy Edwardian couple's food, whilst wearing a corset. The duo returned, in May 2008, with a series called The Supersizers Go... where they live, for a week, eating food based upon certain diets. The first programme saw them survive for a week on WWII rations, the second covers the English Restoration period, the third the Victorian period, the fourth the Seventies, the fifth the Elizabethan period and the sixth the Regency period.
In August and September 2008, Sue Perkins appeared in the reality TV talent show television series Maestro on BBC Two. During the series, a group of eight celebrities attempted (until eliminated) to learn to conduct orchestral, choral and operatic music. Perkins won the competition with her mentor conductor Jason Lai. She then conducted the BBC Concert Orchestra at Proms in the Park, part of the BBC's Last Night of the Proms. Her Maestro section of the programme was broadcast live from Hyde Park, London on 13 September 2008, in front of a crowd of more than 30,000. During the programme, Perkins conducted three pieces, two of them with soprano soloist Lesley Garrett.
Also in 2008 Perkins narrated the series ....and Proud on Virgin 1.
Sue Perkins appeared in a second 'Supersizers' series called The Supersizers Eat... with Giles Coren which aired on BBC Two in June and July 2009. In September and October 2009 she hosted the Channel 4 panel game The Big Food Fight.
In March 2010, Perkins appeared in a three part mini-series broadcast on BBC Two A Band for Britain in which she attempted to revive the fortunes of the Dinnington Colliery Band.
Perkins filmed two series which aired on BBC Two in 2010: Giles and Sue Live The Good Life, with Giles Coren, and The Great British Bake Off, a cookery competition series which she co-hosts with Mel Giedroyc, each episode looking at a different aspect of baking. The latter had a second series in 2011 and a third in 2012. She also narrated the 2011 game show Don't Scare the Hare. With Alison Steadman and Stephen Mangan she presented a mini-series on BBC Two called All Roads Lead Home, in October 2011, based on navigating short rambles, or nature walks, solely with the use of natural clues.
She presented and performed Mrs Dickens' Family Christmas, a sixty minute documentary for BBC Two broadcast on 30 December 2011 which examined the marriage of Charles Dickens through the eyes of his wife, Catherine.
She has, on occasion, presented The Culture Show. She presented this show when it came from the Edinburgh Festival in August 2012, and interviewed Nile Rodgers, a member of the American disco pop music group Chic.
She appeared with Charley Boorman in S01E01 of BBC World's Most Dangerous Roads: Alaska shown in 2011 where they drove the Dalton Highway. She then appeared with Liza Tarbuck in S02E02 of BBC World's Most Dangerous Roads: Ho Chi Minh Trail shown in 2012 where they drove in Vietnam and Laos.
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