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Jeremy Paxman is in talks to join Channel 4 after leaving rival broadcaster BBC. However, it is not though that Jon Snow's position is under threat. Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Channel 4's chief creative officer Jay Hunt confirmed she was speaking with the notorious political interviewer.

Hunt said: "I have known Jeremy for years and worked with him on Newsnight. Jon Snow should not be worried in any way. But am I in talks? Yes, of course."

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Jeremy Paxman’s exit from Newsnight was in line with his candour as a presenter: clean cut, no nonsense and controversial. His talents, though, don’t lay dormant in a country home in Kent; he’s not whiling away the hours watching angling channels and scrutinising Evan Davis.

Jeremy Paxman has delighted with his one man show [Eamonn E. McCormack]

No, he’s at the centre of stand up comedy and theatre in the U.K – the annual Festival Fringe in the picturesque setting of Edinburgh. Daunting it may have been, but Paxman has managed to transfer his dry, acerbic wit from anchoring BBC 2’s flagship news broadcast to manning a stage solo in a one-man show. 

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August has arrived in Edinburgh – and the rest of the world, in fact – bringing with it a deluge of travelling live performance from stand up comedy to theatre; everything in between, before and beyond that, too.

The Fringe kicks off (Getty 2014/Jeff. J Mitchell)

The city becomes one of the most visited in the world during the Festival Fringe, so this year, celebrations have kicked off at the airport, meaning newly arrived tourists get a taste of the frivolity and hullaballoo as soon as they step off the plane.   

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Evan Davis – yep, the bloke who presented The Dragons’ Den – is replacing Jeremy Paxman as host of BBC2’s Newsnight. The decision has plunged The BBC’s female presence in lead anchor roles into further disrepute. 

Evan Davis at The Stonewall Awards held at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Having already worked for Newsnight between 1997 to 2001, The Radio 4 Today programme presenter, who was the BBC's economics editor for six and a half years, represents a neat fit for The BBC, which was under pressure to replace the popular Paxman and his combative interviewing style. 

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Jeremy Paxman seems to have treated the BBC a bit like he treats his interviewees: with a deadpan glare and an unforgiving manner. But the very thing that makes him so watchable shouldn’t be held against him as he exits Newsnight ahead of his one-man show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Jeremy Paxman will present his last Newsnight in June

"There's a pile of stuff on the BBC I can't stand," he told The Guardian. "My idea of hell is going down in one of the lifts in that ghastly new building [New Broadcasting House] in a lift which has Radio 1Xtra plumbed into it. I don't quite understand why the BBC does Radio 1Xtra … The BBC has got an unfortunate history of never seeing an area of broadcasting, or increasingly a web presence, without feeling the need to get into it itself,” he said a fortnight ago. 

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Jeremy Paxman is to quit his job at 'Newsnight' after 25 years. The presenter, who once asked hapless a Michael Howard the same question a dozen times, had informed new editor Ian Katz of his decision to step down last summer, agreeing to stay on for another year to steady the ship under new stewardship.

Jeremy Paxman is Leaving 'Newsnight'

Paxman will continue in his role as presenter of 'University Challenge,' though is yet to line up a new job at the BBC. 

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Jeremy Paxman has criticised Prime Minister David Cameron for comments he made about Britain celebrating the centenary of World War I. In a speech in October, Mr Cameron said he wanted to see "commemoration that, like the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, says something about who we are as a people."

Newsnight presenter Paxman told the Radio Times that the centenary events should "have almost nothing in common" with the Jubilee. The Prime Minister had promised a "truly national commemoration" in 2014 to mark 100 years since the outbreak of the war and the dates of the major battles.

The sharp-tongued Paxman, whose great uncle died in the war, said that "not to acknowledge the war's significance would be wilful myopia," though warned that the "the whole catastrophe has been overlain with myth and legend."

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Jeremy Paxman's beard became a trending topic on Twitter during Newsnight on Monday evening (August 12, 2013).

Remember when Beyonce announced she was pregnant at the MTV Video Music Awards and it was tweeted more than four trillion times? Well, Jeremy Paxman's beard was tweeted more than four quadrillion times - probably.

Audiences were stunned as the no-nonsense journalist introduced his political programme on BBC Two sporting a grizzly beard, though it was overwhelmingly given the thumbs up.

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Pollard report into the BBC's Savile inquiry show Jeremy Paxman to be hugely critical of the way The BBC treated its then Newsnight editor Peter Rippon. In a set of transcripts, Paxman said he had a "suspicion" Mr Rippon was told he couldn't run the story by someone else within the organisation.

In a fascinating insight, Paxman said it was "very unfair, and frankly not at all untypical, that the BBC has dumped all this on one individual [Rippon]. I think the BBC's behaviour now is almost as contemptible was it was then." Rippon wrote a blog back in early October, in which he gave his reasons for dropping the programme. It was later described as "inaccurate or incomplete in some respects" by the BBC. "He [Rippon] ws being used as the fall guy ... I profoundly disagree with the BBC's refusal to engage with it and to justify or attempt to justify its position,” said Paxman.

Sky news' Nick Pollard compiled the full report, which itself comprises 3,000 pages of emails, interviews and submissions from BBC executives and journalists. The Pollard Review, which concluded in December, surmised that the decision by the BBC's flagship current affairs programme to shelve its probe into sexual abuse claims against the television star was "seriously flawed".

Fear not Newsnight fans, your saviour will be returning. There has been much speculation of late as to whether the BBC daily affairs discussion program would see its long running host Jeremy Paxman returning to the chair, after the presenter was rumoured to have grown disillusioned with it.

However, according to The Sunday Telegraph, Paxman assured them that he would be back on the show this week. “I have been away filming, but I will definitely be there on Wednesday” he said in response to where he’d been of late. The BBC has been going through a rocky period of late, with the revelations about former employee Jimmy Savile’s private life opening the door to a whole trail of sex allegations that resulted in the inaccurate accusations being levelled at conservative party member Lord McAlpine, largely being pushed by Newsnight itself.

McAlpine’s swift move to prove those accusations wrong saw the director general of the BBC George Entwistle forced to stand down, and Paxman commented “He has been brought low by cowards and incompetents. The real problem here is the BBC’s decision, in the wake of the Hutton Inquiry, to play safe by appointing biddable people. They then compounded the problem by enforcing a series of cuts on programme budgets, while bloating the management. That is how you arrive at the current mess on Newsnight.” Despite the mess, though, he clearly believes he’s still the man to clear it up.