Other Work
Tarrant narrated the schools programme Stop, Look, Listen, made by ATV and later Central Television.
Tarrant created and hosted Everybody's Equal in 1989, although the programme came to an end in 1990. In 1991 he hosted the second series of Cluedo. On 1 January 1993, when Thames Television dissolved and was replaced by Carlton Television, Tarrant hosted the first programme of the franchise, A Carlton New Year. Also in 1993, Tarrant hosted Lose A Million, in which contestants started off with a million pounds and were required to lose it by aiming to incorrectly answer a set of questions. Ironically Tarrant would go on to host Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, where the objective of the game is to do the complete opposite. From 1996 to 1999 Tarrant hosted the UK edition of Man O Man.
Tarrant is also the long-term host of Tarrant on TV, a programme which shows clips featuring a number of unusual television programmes from around the world. He presented the show from 1990 to 2006.
In 1998, Tarrant released a compilation album entitled Ultimate Party Megamix on PolyGram Television's record label. A second edition entitled Ultimate Summer Party was also released. Both albums contain songs compiled by Tarrant himself in the form of a megamix.
In 2002, he did voice over work on the film Johnny English, where he starred as himself hosting a radio presentation of Savage's coronation.
In June 2008 it was announced he would return to radio, hosting a weekly Saturday morning show for the GMG Radio network of stations including London's 102.2 Smooth Radio, Real Radio in Scotland and the North West's Century Radio. The show would air in direct competition to Jonathan Ross's show on BBC Radio 2 and began on 26 July. It was aired for 12 months until July 2009.
In 2009 UKTV signed Chris Tarrant to present a show for Watch called Tarrant Lets the Kids Loose. The eight-part series, beginning on 4 October, gives three- to six-year-olds the chance to fulfil their greatest ambitions in the adult world; whether running a photographic studio, a radio station or an ice-cream van.
In April 2010, Tarrant become one of the first three celebrities to be subjected to the British version of the American institution of a comedy roast, on Channel 4's A Comedy Roast.
In 2010 he presented ITV1's The Door, a game show in which celebrities faced unpleasant and scary challenges to win money for charity.
Tarrant has sat in for Steve Wright on his BBC Radio 2 show on at least 10 occasions, in May, July, August 2010 and from 21–25 February, 4–8 April, 9–20 May, 4–8 July, 12–16 September, 19-23 December 2011 and in February, March and June 2012.
A keen fisherman, Tarrant launched the Fishing with Chris Tarrant application for the Apple Inc. iPhone and other iOS devices in August 2010, in association with Angling Times magazine.
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