page_title: Alex Zane
section_title: Television presenting
hierarchical_section_title: Alex Zane / Television presenting
caption_attribution_description: British music presenter en:Alex Zane at the XFM Awards
context_page_description: Alex Zane is a British television presenter and DJ.
context_section_description: In 2006 Zane was signed by Channel 4 under an exclusive contract.  He co-presented Popworld and the accompanying Popworld Radio podcast with Alexa Chung until the programme ended in July 2007. He has narrated an E4 television show, Princess Nikki, and made appearances on Channel 4 entertainment programmes such as The Law of the Playground, 8 out of 10 cats and Balls of Steel.  He presented E4's coverage of Channel 4's hoax reality show Space Cadets, as well as Death Wish Live, the BT Digital Music Awards in 2005 and 2006 and Carling Live 24.  He has also presented television coverage of several large scale music events, including the V Festival, and the Wireless Festival in London's Hyde Park and more recently Orange Unsigned Act.  He presented Celebrity Scissorhands first on BBC Three, then on BBC One, as part of the BBC's Children in Need charity campaign in November 2006. He has presented Channel 4's variety show based on YouTube videos, Rude Tube, four times (February 2008, January 2009, January 2010 and October to November 2010). Zane also co-presented the Kerrang! music awards 2008 with Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil. He has done promotional presenting work with BBC Blast including a piece on what creativity means.
  He had small acting roles in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005), Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead and The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
  In July 2009, he co-hosted Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: A T4 Special with Rick Edwards and hosted the Channel 4 coverage of Inglourious Basterds.
  Between 2008 and 2011 Zane also hosted a film show, Alex Zane's Guest List, on Sky Movies Premiere.
  In early 2010 he appeared with Bill Bailey as a team captain on birdwatching show Bill Bailey's Birdwatching Bonanza for Sky 1. Additionally, he also does the voice-over for Channel 4 TV show 'Ultimate Traveller'.
  A Best of Rude Tube DVD, presented by Alex Zane, was released on 21 November 2011.
caption: Alex Zane at the Xfm Music Awards, January 2008
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