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Baz Ashmawy
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Baz Ashmawy is an Emmy and IFTA Award Winning TV and Radio Broadcaster who has been a truly exciting Talent on our airwaves for nearly 20 years.
In 2024, Baz’s new comedy-drama series, ‘Faithless’ aired on Virgin Media Television. Faithless follows an Irish-Egyptian dad who is presented with the life-altering responsibility of raising his three young daughters alone after his wife dies. As the creator and star, Baz brought us through the journey of a multicultural family coping with their sudden loss in their own ways, and pulling together to find light in the darkness.
In 2024, Baz hosted ‘The Money List’ on RTÉ One. This brand-new Sunday night quiz showcased two teams of complete strangers competing to fill in missing answers – the more lists completed, the more money won. The series went down a storm with viewers, with those watching on from home 'absolutely loving' the new quiz show. Also in 2024, Baz also embarked on a journey to track down Irish people who have moved abroad, and find out why. ‘The Best Place to Be’ on RTÉ One brought us to countries such as Spain, Norway, Italy and Hungary to give viewers an insight into what it is like for Irish people living in Europe.
Baz is best known for 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy which earned him an International Emmy Award for Best Non-Scripted Entertainment. For one of his epic adventures, Baz was joined by his 70+ year-old mammy, Nancy, on a whirlwind journey around the world for ‘50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy’ on Sky 1. The award winning series created by Baz, was co-produced for Sky by Brown Bread Films and Burning Bright Productions. Following the tremendous success of the series on Sky 1, the format has been sold to over 100 territories worldwide. For the third series of the show, Baz and Nancy were joined by a number of other daredevil mammies. Together they faced challenges and adventures which took them out of their comfort zone, all while having buckets of fun, in locations from Dubai to Peru and Toronto to New Orleans.
In 2018, Baz took to the shiny stage of ITV to host their musical game show called ‘Change Your Tune’, He also created and presented 'All Bets Are Off', a documentary on the topic of gambling for RTÉ. Viewers and critics praised Baz’s emotional and emphatic approach to the topic and thanked him for sharing light on the topic.
With all this success, Baz became a popular pundit on many TV and Radio shows before being a choice fill in presenter on the most popular shows, filling in for Dara O'Briain on the cult panel show aptly named The Panel and also filling in on The Daily Show on RTÉ One. On radio, he presented his own weekend breakfast show on radio with his co presenter Lucy Kennedy for the national broadcaster RTÉ 2FM called the Baz and Lucy Breakfast Show. He also regularly presented on RTÉ 2FM’s Gerry Ryan Show as well as being a regular pundit on Newstalk’s Orla Barry Show. He displayed his unique comedic timing on a variety of other RTÉ radio programs such as Ryan Tubridy and Derek Mooney, as well as Spin 103.8 and Today FM.
For more information please contact: [email protected] or 35319061011
In 2024, Baz’s new comedy-drama series, ‘Faithless’ aired on Virgin Media Television. Faithless follows an Irish-Egyptian dad who is presented with the life-altering responsibility of raising his three young daughters alone after his wife dies. As the creator and star, Baz brought us through the journey of a multicultural family coping with their sudden loss in their own ways, and pulling together to find light in the darkness.
In 2024, Baz hosted ‘The Money List’ on RTÉ One. This brand-new Sunday night quiz showcased two teams of complete strangers competing to fill in missing answers – the more lists completed, the more money won. The series went down a storm with viewers, with those watching on from home 'absolutely loving' the new quiz show. Also in 2024, Baz also embarked on a journey to track down Irish people who have moved abroad, and find out why. ‘The Best Place to Be’ on RTÉ One brought us to countries such as Spain, Norway, Italy and Hungary to give viewers an insight into what it is like for Irish people living in Europe.
Baz is best known for 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy which earned him an International Emmy Award for Best Non-Scripted Entertainment. For one of his epic adventures, Baz was joined by his 70+ year-old mammy, Nancy, on a whirlwind journey around the world for ‘50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy’ on Sky 1. The award winning series created by Baz, was co-produced for Sky by Brown Bread Films and Burning Bright Productions. Following the tremendous success of the series on Sky 1, the format has been sold to over 100 territories worldwide. For the third series of the show, Baz and Nancy were joined by a number of other daredevil mammies. Together they faced challenges and adventures which took them out of their comfort zone, all while having buckets of fun, in locations from Dubai to Peru and Toronto to New Orleans.
In 2018, Baz took to the shiny stage of ITV to host their musical game show called ‘Change Your Tune’, He also created and presented 'All Bets Are Off', a documentary on the topic of gambling for RTÉ. Viewers and critics praised Baz’s emotional and emphatic approach to the topic and thanked him for sharing light on the topic.
With all this success, Baz became a popular pundit on many TV and Radio shows before being a choice fill in presenter on the most popular shows, filling in for Dara O'Briain on the cult panel show aptly named The Panel and also filling in on The Daily Show on RTÉ One. On radio, he presented his own weekend breakfast show on radio with his co presenter Lucy Kennedy for the national broadcaster RTÉ 2FM called the Baz and Lucy Breakfast Show. He also regularly presented on RTÉ 2FM’s Gerry Ryan Show as well as being a regular pundit on Newstalk’s Orla Barry Show. He displayed his unique comedic timing on a variety of other RTÉ radio programs such as Ryan Tubridy and Derek Mooney, as well as Spin 103.8 and Today FM.
For more information please contact: [email protected] or 35319061011