Television
Suggs twice appeared with Madness on the British TV comedy show The Young Ones, firstly on the episode titled Boring in which the band performed "House of Fun". On the second series, the band performed "Our House" on the penultimate episode Sick.
Suggs has hosted a celebrity karaoke game show on the UK's TV channel Five called 'Night Fever'. He was a team captain in the BBC music trivia game show A Question of Pop, hosted by Jamie Theakston, opposite Noddy Holder. Suggs has also appeared as a guest on the BBC2 show Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
He has hosted a series of sixty minute programmes called Salvage Squad, in which a group of engineers restored rare old machinery. Some of the items restored included a steamroller, a ploughing engine called "Margaret", a Blackpool "Coronation" tram, a Scammell Mechanical Horse, a Revopak dustcart, various boats, World War II tanks, early C20 motor launches, railway locomotives and vintage cars.
In 2005 he filmed a series called Disappearing London for ITV in the London area, in which he investigates architectural and other curiosities that are vanishing. The series won three Royal Television Society awards with Suggs winning the award for 'Presenter of the Year'. A second series was filmed in 2006 for transmission in early 2007. In 2005 he filmed a similar one-off programme for the BBC entitled A Picture Of London by Suggs, which featured the newly penned song "Cracks In the Pavement". Suggs has twice been a guest presenter on the BBC's long-running chart show Top Of The Pops, once in 1995 and again in 2005.
In 2006, Suggs was the main presenter of the BBC London series Inside Out, a weekly programme for Londoners looking at surprising stories in the capital. He was part of Declan Donnelly's Boy Band on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway the same year, and performed "It Only Takes a Minute" by Take That.
In 2007, Suggs starred in a series of Birds Eye commercials which feature the Madness song Our House. A popular online game featuring Suggs was also based around the commercials.
In December 2007, he narrated a one off documentary for ITV on the London music venue The Hammersmith Palais which closed down in 2007. The programme was broadcast on BBC Four on Christmas Eve.
In February 2008, Teachers TV broadcast Suggs in a one-off 'Teaching Challenge'. The challenge required Suggs to return to his secondary school, Quintin Kynaston School in North London, and teach a music lesson to a group of GCSE students. In this lesson he was assisted by renowned vocalist Micky Moonshine, his voice coach Been Cross and his valet S. I. Boy The class performed the timeless Decca classic 'Name it, You Got it.'
In 2008 he presented his own chat show titled Suggs in the City. The show, set in the Soho members club The Colony Room, aired on ITV London on Thursday nights.
In October 2008 he presented a new culture series called 'Suggs' Italian Job' which was aired on Sky Arts, following the singer around Italy's most culturally significant hot spots. Suggs owns a holiday home in the Italian countryside.
In 2009, Suggs performed with Zoë Ball in Let's Dance For Comic Relief dancing to You Can Never Tell from Pulp Fiction but was eliminated. He also appeared in an episode of Australian music quiz show, Spicks and Specks, on 15 April.
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“We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.”
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