Bacon presented editions of BBC Three's "Young Voters' Question Time". He has made several TV cameo appearances as himself, including "Hotel Babylon" in 2007 (in which his character hires escort girls to play Scrabble with him all night), the episode "Video Killed the Radio Star" of the TV series "FM", an episode of "The Thick of It" (both in 2009) and an episode of "Psychoville" in 2011. In October 2011, he hosted BBC Three's "Up for Hire", an interactive series over the course of five nights tackling one of Britain's biggest issues – youth unemployment.