
Simon McCoy
Acting
Biography
Simon McCoy is a journalist and newsreader for the BBC on the rolling news channel BBC News between 2pm and 5pm on weekdays, in a segment titled Afternoon Live. He is also a regular presenter of the BBC News at One and a relief presenter of BBC Weekend News.
Known For

This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.
Question Time

Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives are explored as we find out if this ordinary family could change the world.
Years and Years

A mock-documentary following the challenges - both personal and professional - faced by the team responsible for delivering the biggest show on Earth: the 2012 Olympics. From getting a busload of non-English speaking Brazilians from A to B, who to appoint to run the Cultural Olympiad and what to do when the much-vaunted wind turbines won't turn because there's no wind, it's all in a day's work for the men and women whose job it is to stage the greatest sporting event in the world.
Twenty Twelve

Famous faces join Channel 4's hit real-life thriller, for Stand Up To Cancer. Can they survive 14 days on the run from an elite team of hunters?
Celebrity Hunted

After a terrifying explosion in a hotel in London, three strangers escape together and hide out in a room. Hostages is a comedy about the 24hr news cycle, "experts" and whether or not social media is more important than people's lives....