In a nutshell, Neil has been on television since 1998. He's presented and co-produced hundreds of hours of live music-related shows on MTV, covered the FIFA World Cup 2006 for UKTV, and hosted Shakedown for three seasons of the World Rally Championship. You can see some of Neil's best bits on his showreel, which is here.

out of that nutshell, then...

From 2004 to 2006 Neil was the host for RTS-nominated motorsport/ travel/ lifestyle/ entertainment show, Shakedown, for Sony Pictures Television, which broadcast globally to audiences of up to 100,000,000 people on AXN, FOX, ITV2, ESPN, YLE (all depending on where you live). The show was a popular behind-the-scenes look at the World Rally Championship, its locations and personalities. During it Neil got to jump out of a plane in New Zealand, scared World Rally Champion Tommi Makinen at the wheel of a Subaru Impreza in Finland, and ate Wichity grubs in the Australian bush. And oh, lots of things. read about them here

In 2006 the World Cup happened in Germany and Neil took his microphone and irreverent presenting style there for UKTVG2's pioneering live coverage.

It all started in 1998, though, when Neil was screentested by Princess Productions for a show called The Alphabet Show, which ended up being presented by Lauren Laverne & Chris Addison for Play UK (nee UK Play, now RIP). He didn't get that job, but they kept him on the bench until the next one, which was much bigger and funner and, most importantly, more lucrative.

This show was ITV2's Bedrock and it became Neil's TV presenting debut (if you don't count about 6 appearances as a roving reporter on West Country local cable show, Telly West in 1994. Journalistic triumphs included haute cuisine for caterers in an Old People's Home, and a man who had a miniature railway in his garden. Neil: "Any plans to open it to the public?" Man: "No")

The industry blurb says: "Bedrock was a live, primetime youth magazine show featuring 4 "flatmates", celebrity guests, games and music. With just under 250 episodes, it constituted the largest single independent commission in cable and satellite history when it launched on ITV2 in 1998." In reality, it was a brightly-painted, wittier-than-most show in which Neil & Ben Shephard (and, in the early days, Malcolm Jeffries) would goof off about gadgets and games and bands and babes and websites and films, while Heather Suttie & Rachel Brady would be forced to flirt with guests and wear increasingly more revealing tops. It ran until April 2000.

In 2000 Neil was asked to screentest for a job for MTV. He got the job… a job which, initially, meant hosting daily live show, Select. This was not for MTV UK, oh no, but MTV European which, at the time, meant practically all of Europe (except for Germany, Spain and Italy) and included Israel, South Africa and parts of South America. Go figure.

Anyway, from September 2000 to October 2003, Neil's ass was owned by MTV, and he presented shows from London and New York and Serbia and Stockholm and Bulgaria and Ibiza and Istanbul and Romania and Copenhagen and Portugal and Benicassim and Frankfurt and Milan and Barcelona and Malta and Belgium and Valencia, but mainly from the old TV:AM building in Camden, where MTV is, which still has models of boiled eggs in stripy egg cups on top, although now they are covered in guano. In that time, Neil interviewed loads of cool bands, music legends and his fair share of utterly forgettable and mercifully forgotten nobodies. Here's a list.

In 2002, Neil co-created, co-produced & hosted a show called The Fridge (a reference to William Perry, the 80's Chicago Bears defensive tackle) . It was a live, 90 minute chat-show format with live guests & live performances. The Raveonettes made their first ever TV appearance on it, playing 'Attack of the Ghost Riders'. It featured Neil in comedy skits as well as proper music-related content, and it ran for Four Seasons (like the pizza).

Since (and sometimes during) this stint for MTV, Neil's affinity with non-traditional sports took him to the Monster Mastership World Championships of Skateboarding, the Speedo National Wakeboarding Championships and the Quiksilver Marseille Bowlriders, each time reporting for the Extreme Sports Channel.

He is the live interviewer for the annual Race of Champions, broadcasting on Eurosport, al Jazeera, Speed TV etc., depending on where you're from.

He also continues to appear on other people's shows as a reviewer/pundit, for example Mary Anne Hobbs' music review show Jamz and Sky One's '100 Things…'