August – December 2007 - Frank completed a two week run at the Edinburgh Festival followed by a 69 date sell-out tour marking his return to live stand-up after a 10 year break. The tour included three homecoming shows at the Birmingham National Indoor Arena.
2nd October 2008 - Frank releases the follow-up to the bestseller Frank Skinner by Frank Skinner – Frank Skinner On The Road. The book charts his return to stand-up after many years working on Television and the challenges that were involved.
4th October 2008 - Frank appears at the Amnesty International Secret Policeman’s Ball.
10th November 2008 - Frank releases his Frank Skinner Stand-Up show on DVD. Recorded in front of 5,500 people at the Birmingham NIA the DVD is Frank’s first live release for 10 years. Frank also releases The Stand-Up Collection DVD box set including Frank Skinner Stand-Up Live From Birmingham's NIA, Frank Skinner Live and Frank Skinner Live At The Palladium
February 2009 - Frank began hosting Credit Crunch Cabaret, a budget-busting series of Variety Shows at the Lyric Theatre for just ten quid.
March 2009 - Frank began hosting his Saturday morning radio show on Absolute Radio with his co-hosts Emily Dean and Gareth Richards
April 2010 - Frank returns to BBC Two with a topical comedy series, Frank Skinner's Opinionated. Each week Frank is joined by two fellow comedians and, most importantly, a studio audience to unpick the week's most talked about news stories.
May 2010 - Baddiel and Skinner reunite on Absolute Radio resuming their position as the unofficial voice of football at the 2010 World Cup. Frank and David, who launched the tournament's first-ever podcasts in 2006 with their Sony Radio Academy Award-nominated series, partner up to record a brand new series of 20 free-of-charge podcasts which were downloaded over 3 million times.
Spring 2011 - Immediately recommissioned by the BBC for two further series following the success of the first, Frank Skinner's Opinionated returns for a six part run on BBC TWO.
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