ROCK STAR BABYLON is out now in the USA and the UK

plus there's a spoof interview with Jon about the hardback version of the book here. (thanks to waterstones.com)

Update 2nd October - Yesterday's Independent had a feature about new online dictionary wordia.com and highlighted Jon's contribution to the project. You can see the article here and Jon's video of his chosen word here.

Or actually, just here.

October 2008 - There will be some Jon Holmes live dates. Jon is planning a sort of live book read of ROCK STAR BABYLON. With extra jokes. And Stephen Fry as 'the voice of the book'. It will be funny and are sort of try outs.

Dates / Venues are these:

NOVEMBER

9th - Colchester Arts Centre tickets

11th - London Canal Cafe Theatre website

15th - Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick University (confusingly in Coventry) tickets

RADIO - Jon's BBC 6 Music show continues on Saturday afternoons from 2 -4 and continues to attract an audience of people who don't appear to be quite right in the head.  Listen Again here. And here's a clip of Jon's version of 6 Music morning DJ George Lamb presenting the Today programme. Someone's put it on YouTube. Thanks, someone.

Speaking of messing around with the radio, Jon is now working on the second series of his Radio 4 show Listen Against. It records in October / November and airs in December.

Jon's new "very stupid" film panel game pilot I'm Spartacus will be on Radio 2 in December. You can come to the recording in London for free. Except we don't have the date yet. We don't have any cast details yet either...

Over at television, Jon is developing a TV version of his book and working on a new BBC 1 show for Jon Culshaw and is developing some short animations for this new fangled internet we keep hearing so much about. Details soon.

You can also read Jon in the Sunday Times once a month. On a Sunday. Oh and Radio 4's The Now Show returns in December with Jon and the team.

August 2008 - Jon's new book out in paperback from bookshops and Amazon and all good (and disreputable) book outlets from September 1st.

Also Jon is now co-writing the current series of Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive on Radio 4. From September he will be writing and co-producing series 2 of his own radio 4 series Listen Against and writing his live book reading show (also called Rock Star Babylon - and featuring Stephen Fry as 'the voice of the book)  which will be trying out at Warwick Arts Centre on November 15th and Colchester Arts Centre around the same time. Tickets at the relevant Arts Centre websites. More details to follow...

But for the the rest of August, Jon is on holiday.

July / August - Jon has been the guest on more breakfast shows across the USA, talking about his book. It's surprising how detailed you can be about Stevie Nicks allegedly employing a roadie to blow cocaine up her 'ass' with a straw on early morning US radio.

In TV news Jon has lent his voice to a new BBC 3 adult puppet show called Spongeheads and is currently working on a new show for Jon Culshaw for Friday nights on BBC 1. He is also developing a TV version of Rock Star Babylon for Hartswood Films.

Over on the radio, where it's warmer, series 2 of Jon's Radio 4 show Listen Against now has a transmission date of December so Atumkn will see him writing and recording that.  Also in December Jon writes and records a pilot of his film panel game I'm Spartacus for broadcast on Radio 2 in January 2009.

Meanwhile Jon's BBC 6 Music show continues to shock and awe on Saturday afternoons live from 2pm and Radio 4's The Now Show which Jon writes and performs is on Friday evenings at 6.30pm with a Saturday lunchtime 12.30 repeat. You can  also 'pod' its 'cast' here. This week the the team are recording live at the Latitude festival in Suffolk. 

Also coming in the Autumn, series 4 of Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive which Jon co-writes. Series 3 is now available on CD. See here.

Not only that but Jon is taking to the road to try out material for a live 'stand up-esque' show-come-book-tour based around Rock Star Babylon sometime in November. Dates and venues to follow...

24th June - Good morning America. Jon has been hauling his voice around the US promoting his book. Miami, Boston, Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, Denver and San Luis, California via Houston and Phoenix have all had their radio stations invaded by Jon recounting stories of rock n' roll debauchery.  You can buy the book on amazon.com by clicking here

Jon's national UK radio show on BBC 6 Music continues on Saturday afternoons. Why not watch as Jon and the team re-create the excitement of TVs Gladiators in the studio and accidentally cave

the ceiling in?   You can listen to the show here as well.

What else? Oh yes, in the UK Jon hosts the Official Heroes Radio Show and podcast for the BBC. You can find it on iTunes and all that jazz.

The Now Show team (of which Jon is part) begin their new series on BBC Radio 4 this week. Fridays at 6.30 pm with a Saturday 12.30 repeat. The team are live in Portsmouth, UK for the first show with a show from the Latitude festival later in the 8 week run. Details and tickets and so forth available here

12th June - Hello then. Apologies for the lack of updates recently. Let's quickly get up to speed. The Now Show which Jon writes and performs on is back on BBC Radio 4 from 27th June. This series includes dates from The King's Theatre, Southsea, UK and the Latitude Festival.  at some point.

Also on Radio 4 Jon continues to be a guest interviewer on Loose Ends while over on Radio 2 Jon's film panel game I'm Spartacus is in 'development'. This is of course media speak for 'sitting on someone's desk awaiting various budgetry and personnel decisions to be made'.

Jon is working on a new Friday night BBC 1 show for TV's Jon Culshaw. As yet it doesn't have a title or anything but chances are there'll be some impressions in it.

 

Jon's BBC 6 Music show continues to represent no value whatsoever to licence fee payers on Saturday afternoons between 2pm and 4. You can listen again here. He's also been sitting in for Stephen Merchant on Sundays and hosting the odd breakfast show. That was a couple of weeks ago. We forgot to mention it at the time.

Jon's new book Rock Star Babylon is published in the USA on June 24th. He'll be doing a virtual tour of US radio stations in that week hawking his wares coast to coast to promote it.

The UK paperback is out in August. It's also currently being translated into Russian. Presumably for a release in Russia. Or maybe just for an elaborate joke.

Jon also continues to present the Official Heroes Radio Show and podcast spin off fan forum for the BBC 2 show Heroes. Season 2 still has a way to run and dates for Season 3 have just been announced for Autumn 2008.

Jon's Sunday Times column also continues. You can read previous columns at the Sunday Times website. Just do a search for 'Jon Holmes'. Obviously.

Jon is planning to do a live book tour with his book sometime early next year but Autumn 2008 may see some one-off warm up shows and try outs. Details and live dates will follow as and when...

23rd April - The current Now Show series finishes this week on BBC Radio 4. It can be heard on Fridays at 6.30pm or Saturdays at 12.30 lunchtime. Why not subscribe to the 'podcast' as the kids are calling them? Back in June for another run.

In the gap Jon will be taking to the airwaves to present the official radio show and podcast of BBC2's Heroes. An 11 week run starts on 24th April . Subscribe to the podcast here.

Also on Saturdays Jon and cohorts Andy Hurst and David the Idiot continue to violate the airspace over on BBC 6 Music between 2 and 4 o'clock with their own peculiar brand of mildly amusing titting about. The producer described the atmosphere of the show this week as 'the radio equivalent of a Thursday afternoon school science lesson when everyone's just got silly.' All details and features here.

They recently had a gladiatorial arena fight in the 6 Music studio, based on TV's Gladiators. They even called Jet from Gladiators for advice. to be honest she was very little help. Jon fell off an upturned bin and Andy made the ceiling cave in. It was filmed and everything. You can watch all the action here.

Jon's book Rock Star Babylon is out in America in June. You can pre-order here. It's out in the UK in September. It's already been picked up by US bloggers who appear to be discussing a rather revolting story from the book involving the band Motley Crue. Read with caution...

Jon's latest Sunday Times column appears this coming Sunday 27th April. You can read previous columns at the Sunday Times website. Just do a search for 'Jon Holmes'. We're hoping to get some unedited versions (with unprintable jokes still left in before the editor removed them) up on this site asap.

Jon is also currently working on the TV adaptation of the Horrible Histories books. They're being adapted for CBBC. Filming begins in May.

6th March - Radio 4's The Now Show is back up and running for an eight week series from this weekend. Jon and the team will be recording the show live in front of an  audience at the BBC Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House. (Apart from  tonight, when they're at the University of London.) Why not get tickets and  be there? If not it's on on Fridays at 6.30pm and Saturday lunchtimes at  13.30pm on Radio 4. You can also download it as a futuristic podcast. Why  not do that, if only to keep Chris Moyles and Russell Brand off the top of the podcast charts?

Jon will also be appearing again on Sky News tonight (6th March) and trying not to get into trouble like last time, when he attributed the current unpleasantness in Jersey to the actor John Nettles on live TV.

On last week's BBC 6 Music show, Jon, Andy and David recreated TV's Gladiators in the studio, with ceiling-damaging results. They fought with home made Pugil Sticks (giant cotton wool bud things to you and me) fashioned from empty 10 litre water cooler bottles and lengths of drainpipe. Glamorous it was not. Why not watch the poor quality battle unfold here?

13th February - quick note .. Jon will be making one of his ill-judged appearances on Sky News tomorrow night (14th) at 11.30pm, previewing Friday's papers.  It's Valentine's Day so if you're a couple, why not settle down and watch him as a precursor to sexual intercourse? What could be more of a turn on than a short man saying inappropriate things on live television in a bright TV studio at bedtime? (Don't forget to practice safe sex.)

February 2008 - Jon's Radio 4 show Listen Against has been recommissioned for a second series. There are no recording or transmission dates as yet but we'll keep you posted.

Meanwhile over in TV land Jon has begun development work on adapting his book into a TV drama-comedy. A 'dramady', if you will plus he's started work on co-adapting the Horrible Histories books for BBC One.  

Jon's BBC 6 Music show continues to delight its five loyal listeners and appal everyone else on Saturday afternoons and this month has seen the return of KenBruceMaster the stupid quiz based on Radio 2's Popmaster but instead of listeners answering questions about pop stars, pop stars come on Jon's show and answer questions about Radio 2's Ken Bruce.  So far Guy Garvey from Elbow and Richard Hawley out of off of Richard Hawley have taken home the prize. Listen again here.

Jon also writes his semi-regular Sunday Times column. The one from 2 weeks ago is here and the next one is on Sunday 17th Feb. There's others here, here and here.

January 2008 - Hello. Happy New Year. So what does 2008 hold cupped in its warm and magical hands for Jon? Well let's see. His book is out in paperback in June in the UK under a new name Rock Star Babylon presumably so it can be placed in shops next to the enormously successful book Hotel Babylon so that people will buy it by accident. Nice plan Penguin Publishing. It'll also published in America. That's the American cover, there.

Oh yes. Jon has a showreel. Watch it by clicking here. It includes some footage of him being beaten up by the SAS. No, really.

Jon's Radio 4 show Listen Against (see below) has been entered for a Radio Sony Award which it will fail to win sometime around May. In other Radio 4 news The Now Show is back in February (the last series finished last week) and will be available as a futuristic podcast here. In BBC 6 Music news Jon presented the breakfast show for a while over Christmas but we forgot to tell you. You missed Chesney Hawkes admitting to making a sex tape and an on air fight between Syd Little and Les Dennis. Your loss.

In Radio 2 news Jon is developing a new film based comedy panel show called I'm Spartacus, with a pilot show hopefully being recorded sometime soon. Details as and when.

Readers of the Sunday Times will have noticed that Jon now writes a semi-regular column. Here's one here from just before Christmas. There's others here and here.

In TV news Jon's sitcom Two Worlds Colliding has now been picked up and is being developed by Hartswood Films. We'll let you know when its eventually rejected by all major terrestrial broadcasters.

2008 will also see Jon writing a TV version of his book, co-adapting the highly successful Horrible Histories books for television and of course continuing with his Saturday afternoon show on BBC 6 Music.

11th November - Quick update .. Jon's own Radio 4 series Listen Against starts this Wednesday, 14th November at 6.30pm and runs for four weeks. BBC website here. Today, previewing it, the Sunday Times describe it as 'rude and edgy' and call Jon an 'enfant terrible'. Hmm. Plus there's a bit of controversy beginning about it in the press, for example here. Scroll down, the relevant piece is next to a picture of God. And yes, just there to the left, that is Jon's head on a dog.

3rd October 2007 - And so as the nights draw in young Jon is to be found hard at work sneaking out under cover of darkness to kill prostitutes writing his forthcoming BBC Radio 4 series Listen Against. The show starts on Wednesday November 14th at 6.30pm. Details of the cast will emerge over the next couple of weeks.

Jon's BBC 6Music show continues on Saturday afternoons from 1pm. New webpage here with show features on blah blah blah. He's got pop stars giving DIY tips at the moment. This week Marc Ronson is coming on to inform listeners how to install a simple mortise lock in an internal and external door. So that's nice.  You can, natch, listen again here.

Jon is hosting the official Heroes Radio Show for the BBC. You may have seen it advertised at the end of each episode on BBC 2 by cleverly omitting to mention Jon's name. It's on BBC7 and available as a podcast. Next week Jon talks to Radio 1's Jo Whiley and some more anoraky Heroes geeks. Download on iTunes and find details here. Click on 'radio'.

In other radio news Jon moves to a new day and time on London's LBC. Stating this weekend he'll be doing a Saturday breakfast show which will be a "humourous" look back at   the week's main stories with guests. It's described as "the radio equivalent  of a  shop doorway where trampy, homeless comedians can come on a  Saturday  morning to shelter from the rain and talk balls." It's at 7am.  Jesus. That's early.  The first show's guests are Lucy Porter and Andrew Collins.

The Radio 4 anniversary show starring Stephen Fry and Matt Lucas that Jon co-wrote and script edited was on last Sunday. You can listen again here.

In TV news Jon's sitcom script is the basis for some lunches and/or meetings. We'll keep you posted.

Jon also appeared on BBC4 as part of their recent radio week. You probably missed it.

Jon continues to be a guest interviewer on Radio 4's Loose Ends. This week he interviews Sean Hughes and is next on on November 3rd.

In book news Jon's is being published in America next year. Americans haven't heard of Status Quo so the new title will be Rock Star Babylon. Here's a sneak preview of the cover.

5th September 2007 - Jon is taking 2 week break from both his BBC 6Music show. Sitting in will be both Harry Hill and David Quantick, respectively.  Back Saturday 22nd September.

30th August 2007 - Jon has co-written a special one-off birthday tribute show for BBC Radio 4 on its 40th anniversary. Starring Stephen Fry and Matt Lucas all details (and indeed a tiny clip (written by Jon) can be found here. It will air on Radio 4 on September 30th.

Meanwhile Jon's new series Listen Against will be will begin on Wednesday November 14th at 6.30pm on Radio 4. This coming Sunday (2nd September) Jon has written a column for the Sunday Times about the logistics of being a superhero. You'll find it in the 'In Gear' section.

20th August - It's been a busy month. Sorry for delayed updates! The Day the Music Died has just finished it's sixth series on BBC Radio 2 - website here and listen again to the final show here. It includes Jon singing a duet with Andrew Collins so that's got to be worth downloading. If, that is, you like the sound of rubbish singing. There is a gallery of the marvellous (and mental) re-created album covers that you've been sending in this series. There's one there look, with a cow on.

The current series of The Now Show has also come to an end over on Radio 4 (back in November) but that Friday evening at 6.30 / Saturday lunchtime at 12.30 slot isn't entirely Jon free as he's writing the third series of Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive  which is in there for 6 weeks. It records in the Radio Theatre in central London on Thursday evenings with guests including Stewart Lee, Jo Brand and others.

Jon continues to present BBC2's spin off from Heroes which you can download from iTunes here. Jon and Xanthe Fuller argue the toss about whether the cheerleader's broken ribs are attractive and whether or not Hiro could turn out to be evil. Then Jon flirts with Xanthe with absolutely zero chance of success. At time of writing it's climbing the podcast chart quite rapidly so that's nice.

Naturally Jon's BBC 6 Music show continues to be quite offensive for a Saturday afternoon. 5 year old Nikita continues to hit a xylophone while discussing politics with Jon in Toddler Pops, there's a new game of Band I Found on MySpace Or Karma Sutra Position and now DIY tips from actual, real rock stars. This week, Richard 'Tonight The Streets Are Ours' Hawley tells us how to mend a hole in some  plasterboard.

Jon's LBC friday drivetime show continues to be an arena in which psychopaths verbally joust with Jon by phoning the show and explaining how multiple sclerosis is caused by false teeth. It's difficult to explain. You kind of have to be there. Fridays 4-6.30 LBC 97.3 or lbc.co.uk

Jon is now starting work in earnest on his forthcoming Radio 4 show Listen Against. It should be on air in November / December. He's also got to start writing the live show of Status Quo and the Kangaroo which he's planning to tour next year. Better get cracking then. difficult what with all this lovely weather we've been havi... oh.

In print, Jon's last article for the Sunday Times was in the 'In Gear' section a couple of weeks ago so we'll try and get a scan up soon. Also, Jon was the featured 'Face Behind The Voice' in last week's Radio Times. Again, we'' aim to get a scan in asap. (To be frank, the scanner has broken.)

23rd July - Right then. What's happening in the world of Holmes? Well as you probably know American drama series Heroes is starting on BBC 2 this  week and Jon has been signed to host the BBC radio spin  off, Heroes - The  Official Radio Show which will also be  available as a podcast. It's a  fan forum and discussion  show - think of it as a bit like Big  Brother's Big Mouth  except with superheroes instead of gits. Details to follow  but the first one records in the studio this week.

Saturday lunchtimes see the return of Jon's Radio 2 show The Day The Music Died ("treating the music we love with the ridicule it so clearly deserves") which he co-presents with Andrew Collins. You can listen here. For this series Andrew and Jon are recreating album covers for no real reason other than that its funny and they like dressing up. Can you guess which one this is?

Answer here. There's others on the Radio 2 website. They're not good.

So what else then? Oh yes. Jon continues to write and perform  with the team on Radio 4's The Now Show which is on Friday evenings at 6.30pm and Saturday lunchtimes at 12.30pm.

Then it gets complicated because also at 1 O'Clock but over on BBC 6 Music Jon's Saturday afternoon show unfurls live like a Gloucester flood. That's right, at the same time he's on Radio 2. Hmm. Tsk. Typical of the BBC to mislead everybody.  I blame RDF Television.  On last weeks'; show in common with current BBC panicking, all competitions are suspended so instead Jon and Andy took games in and titted around even more than usual in place of usual features like Toddler Pops (in which 5 year old Nikita plays a tune that you have to guess for prizes) and Bin Laden Bingo. Hopefully competitions back soon. I blame RDF Television again.

As if that wasn't enough he continues with his LBC Friday drivetime show in London and where he attempts to negotiate his way through the maze of mentals that phone in to harass him.

This Friday (27th), Jon also returns to your screens in his role as 'paper reviewer' for Sky News. Expect him to be saying inappropriate things as usual on live TV from 11.30pm.

25th June - Waterstones.com are hosting audio of Jon being 'interviewed' about his book. All may not be as it seems. You can listen here. Click on 'audio preview'. Thanks to Iain Martin of Waterstones for sorting it all.

In broadsheet news, Jon has just written a new piece for the Sunday Times about the time that Goats Ate His Car. We'll let you know when it appears. For a piece for The Guardian he also took his dad to see Motorhead at the Royal Festival Hall. (His dad returned the favour by dragging round National Trust property on a guided tour.) Again, we'll let you know when the piece appears.

Radio 4's The Now Show is back on Friday evenings (with a Saturday lunchtime repeat). It records in front of an audience at The Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, London, W1. Tickets are free.

Naturally Jon continues his BBC 6 Music show on Saturday afternoons. Why not play Toddler Pops as 5 year old Nikita discusses a burning heavyweight political issue of the day and then hammers out a tune for you to guess on her toy xylophone. Identify the tune, win prizes.

Meanwhile, Jon's LBC show continues to attract mentals who Jon simply argues with on the telephone. It's on Fridays from 4-6.30pm.

In other radio news the myspace page for Radio 2's The Day The Music Died has been suitably refreshed with Jon and Andrew Collins returning to co-host from the end of July.

12th June - Jon was previewing the papers again on Sky News last night. Forgot to tell you,  sorry. Tonight he's at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith interviewing the fired contestants from BBC 1's The Apprentice for  Radio 5 Live and BBC1's 'Apprenticast'. This'll be available to listen to from Thursday, providing that Katie off of The Apprentice doesn't try to mate with Jon and then kill and eat him.

Meanwhile in radio news a news series of Radio 4's The Now Show starts again next week, recording at the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, London, W1. Tickets are free and available from the BBC ticket unit.

Jon's book meanwhile went up to number 12 in the Amazon bestseller charts at the weekend. Then it went down again and is still well behind the chart placing of "Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Dummies". That sounds like a must read. Q Magazine and the Mirror have just given Jon a good review though and we'll get a scan of those in asap.

6th June - Scans of some of Jon's recent articles now up. The Time Out piece on Status Quo and the Kangaroo is here  and Jon's  recent   music column for The Sunday Times is here. It mainly describes how Jon once wore make up and then got beaten up.

4th June 2007 - More book action. Jon wrote a piece for yesterday's Sunday Times and was a guest on this week's edition of Radio 4's Loose Ends. Along with Marc Almond. There's an apocryphal tale about him you know. You'll find it in Jon's book. When Jon questioned him about it, Marc got a bit arsey. That bit was cut out of the finished programme. You can listen again here.

Meanwhile there's been quite a lot of traffic over at statusquoandthekangaroo.com and the site has crashed as a result. We're working to restore it but you can send your rock apocryphals to Jon here

Jon is guest hosting this week's Many Questions the podcast from The Guardian. You can download it here or listen to it via iTunes.

31st May 2007 - Jon's book is out today. Consequently he continues to whore himself around various media outlets. Yesterday he was a guest on Channel 5's morning spectacular The Wright Stuff, this week's Time Out has a fair sized piece on the book and he was also to be found in Monday's Independent. Scans will appear here asap. On Friday he's a guest on Sir David Frost's new chat show and has also recorded an appearance on Nicky Horne's show on Planet Rock. On Saturday he's a guest on Radio 4's Loose Ends and then next week he'll be cropping up on various shows on Radio 5, Radio 2 and God only knows where else. He's also recorded an edition of My Life In Books and was the guest on the latest edition of Between The Lines.

Naturally his usual weekly foray into the land of mentals on London's LBC continues this  Friday afternoon and his BBC 6Music show is on Saturdays from 1-4. New exciting  phone in features include this week Toddler Pops and John Leslie Bingo.

On Sunday Jon guest-hosts the Guardian's podcast Many Questions while regular host Lucy Porter is away. It's recorded at London's Soho Theatre and you can be in the audience for free. Details on the link.

Jon is also writing and script editing Radio 4: This Is Your Life starring Stephen Fry, Matt Lucas and plenty of special guests. It records at the new Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House in London next Tuesday, June 5th. Tickets are free from the BBC. Although technically you've already paid for them through your licence fee.

Busy then.

17th May 2007 - Jon's book is serialised in today's Times. Read how the sub-editors cut the stories down and didn't bother printing the footnotes here. Still, it got the front cover of their 'Sounds' section so that's good. Copies of The Times are available in all good newsagents. 

16th May 2007 - Publicity for Jon's book is beginning to gear up. This week he's been the guest on My Life In Books the book equivalent of Desert Island Discs. It airs in a couple of weeks. We'll let you know as and when. He's also written a piece for media industry trade magazine Broadcast. There'll be a scan of it up soon. He's also doing bits in The Independent, the Times, Sunday Times, Time Out plus various TV and radio appearances. We'll let you know details asap.

Meanwhile he was also the guest on this week's BBC 1 The Apprentice show on Radio 5 Live hosted by Richard Bacon. It's also available as an 'Apprenticast' (their word not mine) here. Jon

This Sunday (20th)  Jon also records a show for The Guardian live on stage at London's Soho Theatre. It's a newspaper review hosted by the lovely Lucy Porter. Tickets are probably available roundabout now.

He's also writing Radio 4 - This Is Your Life to celebrate 40 years of BBC Radio 4. It stars Stephen Fry and Matt Lucas. No transmission date as yet but it will be recorded in front of a live audience sometime soon.  

1st May 2007 - Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (co-written by Jon) won the Bronze Comedy Award last night at the Sony Radio Academy Awards in London. It is Jon's sixth Sony. Which is nice.

30th April 2007 - Jon wrote a piece for The Times this weekend for their special 2007 Music Festival supplement. There's a scan here. Curiously, a joke about having the correct coloured wristband at a gig that 'allowed Jon entry into Britney Spears' seems to have made it to publication with the actual joke removed. It now suggests that Jon simply got into 'see' Britney Spears. Thanks, sub-editors.

You can also listen to Saturday's BBC 6 Music show here. This coming Friday (4th May) Jon will again be appearing on Sky News, this time doubtless making rude comments about the local elections. It'll be live from 11.30pm.

Tonight it's the Sony Radio Academy Awards in London. Jon is nominated for co-writing Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive for Radio 4. 

22nd April 2007- BBC Radio 4 have commissioned a series of Jon's show Listen Against, after a successful pilot but we don't have any dates as yet for broadcast. Watch this space. It will be Jon's first solo outing on Radio 4 (in that it's his show - it's got lots of other fine people in it - he's writing, co-presenting and co-producing) since Grevious Bodily Radio.  

Jon appeared on Sky News again last week but we forgot to tell you. He'll be on again at 11.30pm on Tuesday 22nd May previewing the following days papers and no doubt, like the other times he's been on, saying highly inappropriate things on live television that make the presenter, Anna Botting, giggle and go faintly red. Last time it was something about about fat people and a nude John Prescott dancing on a hotplate for money.

Jon has already appeared on BBC1's The Apprentice podcast (available here) and will be doing so again in May, alongside the (former) cocaine taking (former) children's presenter Richard Bacon . 

The current series of The Now Show has finished it's eight week run. It's back in June. Podcasts and audio of the shows are probably available here somewhere.

Also back in June is Jon's BBC Radio 2 series The Day The Music Died that he will be co-presenting with Andrew Collins.

further news archive here