Haynes was a regular panellist on BBC's "The Review Show" and was the most-booked guest on More4's "The Last Word". She appeared as a panellist on BBC 4's "The Book Quiz", and on its "Poetry Special" alongside Andrew Motion and George Szirtes. She also appeared on "Backlash", a BBC2 documentary on voluntary childlessness, wrote and performed in the STV/Assembly Television "Best of the Fest" in August 2005. Haynes has been a panellist on BBC Four's quiz show "Mindgames", appeared on "Must Try Harder" on BBC Two in 2006 and was the art and literature expert on the BBC Two quiz show "Knowitalls".