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Our regular appearances include SKY NEWS, previewing the newspapers or chatting about web stories; joining in the banter on the RICHARD BACON SHOW on BBC Five Live and THE LATE SHOW WITH IAN COLLINS on TalkSport; and presenting the ‘blog review’ on BBC Radio 2’s ‘STEVE WRIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON’. You may also spot Olly as resident ‘web watcher’ on ITV’s THIS MORNING, where he keeps Phil’n'Fern up to date with the very latest state-of-the-art videos of farting rabbits.

Check back here for updates of future appearances. There’s an archive of some of our previous appearances, with some video and audio links, below.

FUTURE APPEARANCES:
Tuesday 21st July: Olly will be talking about the latest web trends on ‘SkyNews.Com’, 7.10pm on Sky News
Thursday 23rd July: Helen will be Richard Bacon’s Friend 11pm-1am on BBC Five Live
Friday 31st July: Olly will be reviewing the papers on ‘Sunrise’, 6.40am and 7.40am on Sky News; then sometime between 2pm and 5pm, Helen and Olly will be joining Steve Wright for their regular ‘Blog Review’ slot on BBC Radio 2
Monday 3rd August: Helen will be talking about the latest web trends on ‘SkyNews.Com’, 7.10pm on Sky News
Tuesday 18th August: Olly will be joining Colin Patterson as his ‘presenter’s friend’ on BBC Radio 5Live, 11pm-1am
Saturday 26th September: Helen and Olly will be special guests on ‘The Lauren Laverne Show’, BBC 6Music

SELECTED ARCHIVE:
Thursday 9th July: Olly joined Richard Bacon as his ‘presenter’s friend’, and yapped on about wine, BBQs, Coronation St and podcasting. Listen again until 17th July with iPlayer:
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Friday 8th May: Olly reviewed the papers on Sky News’s ‘Sunrise’ programme and discussed the latest goss about Gordon Brown, Joanna Lumley and, um, Napoleon Bonaparte. WATCH IT.

Saturday 18th April: Olly joined Sky News’s ‘Saturday Live’ programme to discuss the death of the local newspaper industry and the influence of online journalism. WATCH IT.

Friday 3rd April: Helen and Olly joined Steve Wright for their regular ‘blog review’ slot on Radio 2, and chatted about Matt Lucas on Twitter, Anna Pickard’s Apprentice blog and an Easter Egg review site.

Thursday 26th March: Helen and Olly joined Ian Collins for ‘The Late Show’ on TalkSport radio. Amongst other things, they reviewed the morning’s papers and discussed panto, daytime television and the secrets of iTunes chart success. HEAR A CLIP.

Wednesday 25th March: Helen, Olly and Martin popped up in the BBC’s ‘Pods and Blogs’ podcast, chatting about their appearance at the London Word Festival.

Tuesday 24th March: Olly was on SkyNews.Com, slagging off iPhones, but it was jealousy really, because he wants one.WATCH IT.

Friday 20th March: Helen was talking through the lastest web-stories on Sky News.Com, including the undesirables popping up on Google StreetView. WATCH IT.

Wednesday 18th March: Helen and Olly promoted their appearance at the London Word Festival, and generally had a jolly nice time, on Nemone’s show on BBC 6 Music. HEAR A CLIP.

11th March: Olly (ooh, with his specs on!) chatted about Google Maps, Billy Corgan and cannabis on ‘SkyNews.Com’ (WATCH IT) and, later that evening, was ‘Presenter’s Friend’ on Richard Bacon’s radio show, in which he imparted his opinions on his well-established specialist subjects: feminism in beauty pageants, and homosexuality in Premiership football…

6th March: Helen and Olly talked about Noel Gallagher, wheresthetoilet.com and Songsmith mash-ups on YouTube on ‘the blog review’ on ‘Steve Wright in the Afternoon’, on BBC Radio Two.

4th March 2009- Helen guests on SkyNews.com and discusses fish with human faces and God’s answerphone message WATCH IT.

24th February 2009- Olly is on Sky News.Com ‘explaining the science of why we love cute aninmals’ WATCH IT.

11th February-Olly is Presenter’s Friend on ‘The Richard Bacon Show’ and spends an HOUR talking about toast. In so many ways, incredible.

4th February 2009- Olly appears on SkyNews.com and talks about Paris Hilton’s plan to rescue the world economy. WATCH IT

23rd January 2009 – Helen and Olly appear do their first ever ‘blog review’ for ‘Steve Wright in the Afternoon’, and talk about Aretha Franklin’s hat, Kerry Beard’s Laughercise and Kate Winslet’s chances of an Oscar.

9th January 2009 – Helen pops up on ‘SkyNews.Com’ and talks about Barack Obama’s cameo in a forthcoming SpiderMan comic. WATCH IT.

1st January 2009 – Helen reviews the papers on Sky News’ Sunrise. Yes, she got up before 6am on New Year’s Day to talk about the price of veg.

2008
11th December – On Skynews.com, Helen warns everyone about the world ending in 2012. WATCH IT, doom-lovers!

9th December – Olly guests on Skynews.com and talks about Barack Obama conspiracy theories, Jessica Alba’s tits and Christmas jumpers. WATCH IT.

29th October – In a brief hiatus from leaving rude messages on elderly actors’ answerphones, Helen appears on Skynews.com to talk about ping-pong robots. WATCH IT.

7 October – As the world economy crumbles, Olly is on Sky News talking about a cat. WATCH IT.

26 August – Helen suggests on Sky.com/News that Madonna is attention-seeking. What an insight! WATCH IT.

19th August – on ITV’s This Morning, Olly talks live to Ivy Bean, the world’s oldest person on Facebook. It’s quite a weird moment. WATCH IT.

22 July – Olly is web watching for ITV’s This Morning, and causes host Ruth Langsford to laugh for some considerable time about a farting bunny rabbit. This would never happen with Helen. WATCH IT.

16 July – Olly appears on BBC Five Live, debating whether Russell Brand was right to call a police helpline during a live stage appearance. HEAR A CLIP.

15 July – Olly talks about saucy Miley Cyrus, ‘the internet’s jailbait du jour’, on SkyNews.Com. WATCH IT.

17 June – Olly is back on This Morning, comparing driving test failures with Fern Britton and speculating about cellphone popcorn. WATCH IT

10 June - Olly admits to the audience of ‘Sky.Com News’ that his degree came thanks to the good people at York Notes. Also, he attempts to be amusing about the salmonella scare in the USA. That should definitely nab us some more American listeners, eh? WATCH IT

4 June - Olly guests on ITV’s This Morning and talks about Weezer’s new song, ‘Pork and Beans’. Rock! WATCH IT.

27 May – Helen accuses fellow paper-previewer James Max of causing global warming with his ranting.

22 May – Olly is guest on the Sky papers preview and makes some remarks about ‘bungling terrorists’ which are, apparently, acceptable.

21 May – Olly is guest on Sky.Com News, talking about ‘lovely, lovely Scarlett Johansson’s new album’ and, of course, giving a shout-out to his grandma. WATCH IT.

20 May: Helen and Olly give their ‘Top 5 tips’ to become a hit podcast on Sky News’s Technofile Podcast. WATCH IT.

19 May – Wearing his specs, and trying hard not to swear on daytime TV, Olly is ‘web expert’ on ITV’s This Morning, discussing such web-phenomena as 230 miles of love and Peggy Agar. WATCH IT.

16 May – In a desperate attempt to preview the papers without talking too much about earthquakes, cyclones or football hooliganism, Helen manages to compare Harrison Ford to her 94½-year-old grandmother.

15 May – Olly appears again on Sky News’s Press Preview and admits to a crush on Labour’s former ‘Minister of Fitness’ Caroline Flint. WATCH A CLIP.

14 May – Helen and Olly are guests on new web chat show, Sky News Unplugged. Along with UFO expert Nick Pope and MP Ian Cawsey, bassist in ‘the world’s only parliamentary rock group’ MP4, they discuss singing to Tony Blair and mysterious objects flying over Stanmore. WATCH IT, or download it as a podcast.

28 April – Olly discusses that risque photo of teen star Miley Cyrus on Sky’s paper preview. WATCH A CLIP.

25 April – Olly appears on Sky.Com News and covers a traditional mix of highbrow culture (Shakespeare) and utter dirt (the government logo which looks like a man wanking). WATCH IT.

1st April – Olly appears on Sky.Com News to talk about April Fools Day pranks, but is cut short by some ‘news’ from ‘Zimbabwe’. Ah, whatevs.

20th March – Helen blogs for Sky.Com News, and appears on the show to discuss the new craze of ‘Rick-Rolling‘, which is only really funny if you link a very serious bit of text to the video in question. Cancer. See?

19th March – Olly does the Sky newspaper preview, and probably ruins our chances of ever being in the Daily Express again.

18th March – Helen is on Sky News for the newspaper preview, and claims that Heather Mills came out of court dressed like a clown. Outrageous.

12th March – Olly guests on Sky.Com News, discussing the ‘opportunity’ to be buried in a giant pyramid with randoms off the Internet. Ooh, me first! WATCH IT.

20th February – Olly guests on Sky.Com news, discussing his undisputed specialist subject – the dance music of the Ivory Coast. A treat. WATCH IT.

7th February – Helen is back on Sky.Com News, chatting about parents confusing their babies with booze and blogging about the former lives of celebs.

17th January – It’s our first ever joint TV appearance, as guests on Sky.Com News. We discuss our amazing adventure in Luxembourg, and generally have a jolly time. WATCH IT.

7th July 2007 – We are guests on JCast, the podcast of the Jewish Community Centre, London, (since renamed ‘Sounds Jewish’ and produced in association with The Guardian). LISTEN:

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