Tom Binns

He appears in the BBC MI5 drama Spooks (Episode 6 Series 6),{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/spooks/credits_series6_episode6.shtml|title=BBC – Spooks – Series 6, Episode 6 Credits|website=www.bbc.co.uk|access-date=1 August 2019}} Series 3 of the IT Crowd on Channel 4,{{Citation|title=Tramps Like Us|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320785/|access-date=1 August 2019}} in Knowing Me Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge, and, in character as Ivan Brackenbury, on The Jason Byrne Show. In 2017, he appeared in the comedy movie Eaten by Lions.

As Ian D Montfort he had a BBC Radio 2 series called Ian D Montfort is Unbelievable, broadcast in February 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qw82z|title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - Ian D Montfort Is: Unbelievable|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=1 August 2019}}

Besides writing comedy for television and radio, Binns has appeared on other television shows, such as RI:SE, Bullrun, Oblivion and as a writer on Trigger Happy TV, for which he earned "best comedy moment" and "TV moment of 2001" awards. His first television appearances were Friday Night Armistice (BBC2) and Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun, and has gone on to further appear in the Channel 4-based late night sports talk show Under the Moon, with Danny Kelly where he regularly referenced his love of Sunderland AFC. He has also had stage appearances at the Bloomsbury Theatre and Garrick Theatre.

Binns has worked on Radio 1, Virgin, BRMB and GLR, Talksport UK, Hallam FM and Key 103, appearing either as himself or as hospital radio character Ivan Brackenbury.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/comedy/3670749/Making-a-career-out-of-a-sick-joke.html|title=Making a career out of a sick joke|journal=The Daily Telegraph|date=26 January 2008|access-date=1 August 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}

Binns is the co-writer of BBC 1's Hospital People, part of the BBC's Comedy Playhouse, in which he plays the five lead characters Ivan Brackenbury, Ian D Montfort, Susan Mitchell, Terry Boyle and Father Kenny.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/hospital-people|title=BBC - Production has begun on new comedy series Hospital People, with guest stars including Russell Brand and Sally Phillips - Media Centre|website=www.bbc.co.uk|access-date=1 August 2019}}

He has written the book How to Get Famous – A Cynical Guide.

In 1999, London-based radio station Xfm was fined £50,000 by the Radio Authority following complaints regarding the use of coarse sexual innuendo when discussing a bestial pornography video with a listener during the Tom Binns Breakfast Show.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/564667.stm| title=Record fines for radio stations|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=1 February 2007|date=14 December 1999}} – Article describing the nature of complaints against Tom Binns on Xfm Parent company Capital Radio decided not to sack Binns but in a meeting shortly after the fine was issued, the Radio Authority made it clear to Capital Radio that this would negatively affect the decision to renew the XFM licence.

In December 2009, Binns was fired from BRMB by its owners Orion Media after he cut short the Queen's Christmas Message.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/dec/29/radio-dj-sacked-queens-speech|title=Radio DJ sacked for interrupting Queen's Christmas speech|last=Plunkett|first=John|date=29 December 2009|work=The Guardian|access-date=1 August 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} The Message was played into his show in error instead of the expected two-minute news bulletin. Binns joked, "Two words: bore-ring". He then went on to joke that the British monarchy can't be as good for tourism as some people claim because "the French executed theirs and people still visit France" and played a George Michael record with the link "from one queen to another".{{cite web|url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/12/28/10256/tom_binned_over_queens_speech_gag|title=Tom Binned over Queen's speech gag|work=Chortle|accessdate=29 December 2009|year=2009}}{{cite web|url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/sacked-brmb-dj-tom-binns-115701|title=Sacked BRMB DJ Tom Binns thanks public for support|date=1 January 2010|work=Birmingham Mail}}

In 2023 Tom Binns was given a 10-month sentence, suspended for 15 months, after pleading guilty to making indecent images of children and possessing prohibited images. He was also placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years.https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/17/comedian-tom-binns-given-suspended-sentence-over-child-abuse-images

Binns has received several accolades:

• Best Act award winner at the Midlands Comedy Awards 2015.{{cite web | last= | first= | url=http://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/2402/news-midlands-comedy-awards-results-announced | title=News: Midlands Comedy Awards Results Announced | location= | publisher=Beyond The Joke | date=20 January 2016 | accessdate=3 December 2016}}{{cite web | last= | first= | url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2016/01/20/23993/midland_bankers | title=Midlands Bankers | location= | publisher=Chortle | date=20 January 2015 | accessdate=3 December 2016}}

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