Christian Manley:
TV Presenter and Comedy Writer

Christian was involved with the launch of Nation 217, off the back of his street stunt show, ‘Kamikaze’, which was commissioned by the channel. He presented ‘Celebrity Battleships Live’ for Nation, 6 nights a week, as well as other live quiz shows during the day .He, for a year, consistently received the most public phone calls for any presenter on this phone call generated revenue TV station. Due to his success he has been asked to devise new show ideas for the Channel.


Before then, he worked on Endemol UK’s ‘The Collective’ on Channel 4 where his sketches were voted the best by viewers. This has led him to develop another sketch show with Zenith TV and a project with MTV Europe.

Christian began life as a baby in the quiet Jamaican shantytown of South Wales. Since then he has been progressively getting older, much to the annoyance of those around him. He got his first presenting gig at 17 when he was asked to devise and host a youth magazine format for HTV, after bombarding the station with ideas… and threats. Like many popular shows of the genre ‘Tribe’ was a dangerous mix of features, sketches and interviews, which happily coincided with the rise of many Welsh bands from Wales, such as The Manics, Catatonia and The Stereophonics. The programme gave him the opportunity to travel… sometimes as far as Swansea.

Following the success of ‘Tribe’, he was asked back to devise and present other formats such as ‘Don’t Try This At Home Kids’- a game show with steps that light up and a house band in the bathroom- and ‘Playing For Time’, a children’s quiz show, that with hindsight was possibly a very bad idea.

He has produced and hosted shows on Radio Warwick, such as comedy, ‘Warwick Strip Lights’; ‘Raw Footage’, a film roundup and ‘Spotlight’- a what’s on guide to the West Midlands (quite a short programme).

He wrote and performed ‘Crustacean for the Nation’ for MC Saatchi, the sound track for a giant crab who stood against Michael Portillo in the Kensington and Chelsea bi-election and paid his landlord by hosting corporate events, such as the launch of the ‘imac’ for Apple Computers, ‘Tomorrow’s World Live’ for BBC and ‘Brave New Word’ at the East Dulwich Tavern, as well as modelling for a Virgin Phones campaign.

For more information contact
Barry Ryan at Free@Last Talent  020 7242 4333