Showreel began life on the now defunct The TV Room + website back in 2003. The content was spread across two sub-sections: TV Announcers and TV Presenters. The pages featured text-based profiles and image galleries.
In early 2006, the site was relaunched, with a modern page design and new database-driven backend system. The existing content was enhanced with additional material from The Continuity Booth website.
TCB contributor Paul R. Jackson also made the move across to The TV Room and has contributed a lot of valuable written and photographic content over the years.
After a number of years in hiatus, the site was relaunched on Wednesday 19th September 2018 and the announcer/presenter profile content moved to a dedicated subsite – Showreel.
Showreel details the careers and contributions of on-air talent – from the early days of television right up to the present day. We strive to be as accurate as possible and invest a lot of time in research.
Showreel is not a wiki site, so the content is not editable by visitors. However, readers are free to post any additional information they may have – as a ‘comment’ – on any of our pages and we’ll update our editorial, where appropriate.
We have worked with many announcers and presenters, who have assisted in various ways, including contributing additional background information, images and video.
The TV Room logo and associated branding was produced by Martin Anderson.