Sean Moncrieff is known these days for his popular afternoon show on Newstalk, before his radio days though, he was familiar to us all as host of one of the best loved shows on TV at the time. Who could forget himself, Brendan O'Connor and Dara O' Briain from their 'Don't Feed the Gondolas' days? If the name Monica Loolly doesn't mean anything to you, then you clearly missed the late nineties.

The radio presenter has a number of other TV presenting gigs under his belt, including hosting his own Saturday night chat show for a time, aptly named 'Good Grief Moncrieff'. The last decade or so however, other then being the dry witted voice of The Restaurant, it seems the presenter was happy to leave the camera crew behind and do his own thing on the wireless, even writing the odd novel or too here and there.

Until now that is, as the radio presenter returns to our screens tomorrow night hosting the new TV3 game show 'Crossfire'. It will see contestants answer three diverse rounds of general knowledge questioning, where they each compete to force each other out of the game, and ultimately attempt to scoop the €2000 prize. This winner will then stay on to the next show in the hope of potentially winning big if they can avoid getting caught in the crossfire.

So how does Sean feel about returning to TV, and working in a game show format? He told entertainment.ie; "It was great, we recorded a lot of them back to back. After the first show once we got used to it and everybody knew what we were doing, there was room to have a bit more fun with it."

He went on to say; "TV is different to radio in the sense that telly is more regimented, there's a bit more room in radio to play around the place, so it took a while to get used to doing that. [...] There's more technology involved, so a lot of my day there was a group of people around me poking at me, putting microphones on me and putting makeup on me."

A long way off from the world of radio then, where presenters could pretty much be sitting in their onesies and nobody listening would be any the wiser. Something Sean Moncrieff actually DID of an afternoon, although we should probably mention it was for charity and not for the sheer comfort of it all.

His latest step back into TV land however doesn't mean he is looking to make it a permanent thing, he said; 'I wouldn't see myself leaving radio, but we'll see how the TV goes'. And with his ten year Newstalk anniversary coming up in May, could he see himself there another ten years? 'Easily' said Sean, 'if not twenty! Well George Hook is 947 years of age so I'm hoping to break his record'.

The game show itself is one that Sean feels he would enjoy even if he wasn't a part of it, which was a very important aspect when agreeing to take on the gig; "In the same way the radio show is a show I would listen to if I wasn't on it, I didn't want to do a TV show that I wouldn't watch or at the very least, I wouldn't go 'Eugh, I'm kind of embarrassed about that', so hopefully that's not the case, that would be my minimum standard, he went on to joke. 'Unless of course in the future I'm really broke and I have to do it anyway."

You can see 'Crossfire', which he describes as 'similar to The Weakest Link, but without the meanness' on TV3 at 8pm tomorrow, and will continue at that time on every Monday and Friday after that.