TIM SHAW
Having made the ‘less radio and more TV’ move two years ago, Tim has already presented Channel 4’s primetime series, ‘Extreme Male Beauty’ and hosted three series of Ch 5’s motoring show Fifth Gear. He was one of only a few new faces on Channel 4 last year.
Previous key TV series for Tim include Channel 4’s ‘Balls of Steel’ where he featured as character Mr Inappropriate and Virgin 1’s ‘Britain’s Worst Learners where clueless people behind the wheel are taught to drive by their long-suffering loved ones. He also has presented on More 4’s ‘The Last Word’ and ITV1’s ‘Pulling Power’.
Radio-wise, last year Tim won a Sony Award in the most prestigious category, ‘The Entertainment Award’. This was for his TFI Friday style show on Absolute radio (previously Virgin radio). Branded as A TV show on the radio, with usually an audience of 50 people every night, he has also picked up 9 of the prestigious New York Radio awards (notably 6 golds).
Tim was also awarded two of EMAP’s most distinguished awards ‘Speech Broadcaster of the Year” and of course another ‘Entertainment Award’. In May 2008 he was awarded ‘Presenter of the Year’ by the British Radio Industry. Having recently chosen to leave Absolute radio, Tim now presents his ‘Rehab’ show on the BRMB network across Birmingham and the Midlands. Previous radio shows have included Kiss 100 breakfast, Kerrang Radio breakfast, Magic breakfast, Hallam FM, BBC local stations, Century Radio,
Tim has earned the title of “The Most Internationally awarded Radio Presenter in the UK today”.
His latest project ‘Man In Box’ saw him locked in a box for 30 days somewhere in the UK, however neither he or anyone he knows (bar two people) knew where he was. Being told that his location was meaningful to him, 8.5 million people tuned in to watch the 24hr a day live stream. Viewers had to try to find him with a prize of £30,000 to the first correct coordinates. Man In Box was an idea that Tim himself devised, realised and funded. To date it is the second biggest live streamed event in history.
Tim has two first class honours degrees (one in TV Development) and randomly enough was Young Engineer of the Year in 1994. He spends the majority of his spare time writing treatments (one of which has just been commissioned), rebuilding crash damaged cars and filming stuff with mates! He admits that is biggest fascination is with everyday people. Tim is that bloke that starts talking to you on the tube and before you know it you’re exchanging numbers! He believes that everyone is interesting (having carried out over 8000 interviews) and his personal goal is to travel the world and meet everybody! Good luck with that.