Adams first appeared on television during continuity links on CBBC with
Iain Stirling in April 2012. He later went on to appear on
Blue Peter with
Helen Skelton and
Barney Harwood during episodes broadcast in June 2012, including one on their Big Olympic Tour. The following year he appeared on continuity links for CBBC with
Sam and Mark. He was later seen on documentary series ''Show Me What You're Made Of'' with
BBC Three regular
Stacey Dooley in December 2013. Whilst in Brazil filming the programme, Adams worked in a bike factory, prawn farm, technology factory, baseball cap factory and a cattle farm. In mid-2014, Adams appeared briefly in programmes for
CBBC Live in Newcastle Gateshead, and worked alongside
Swizzels Matlow in designing a Geordie
Love Hearts sweet, which read 'Alreet Pet'. Archival footage of Adams featured in the fifth series of ''Show Me What You're Made Of'' in 2015, and at a similar time he began contributing to media relations surrounding
soap opera Coronation Street. In August 2017 he spoke with
BBC Radio 5 Live's
Phil Williams about
Barbara Knox's potential departure from Coronation Street. The following month he paid tribute to the late
Liz Dawn in an interview with
Judith Moritz for the
BBC News at Six. In January 2019, Adams confirmed on Twitter that he would appear as an uncredited bit part in the eighth series of
ITV sitcom
Cold Feet. Later in the year, he appeared in the revived series of
Supermarket Sweep on
ITV2, hosted by
Rylan Clark-Neal. Adams has worked for both of
ITV's flagship soap operas, Coronation Street and
Emmerdale and regularly features across broadcast media as a television critic. In February 2022, he quizzed
OJ Borg as part of
BBC Radio 2's
Midnight Mastermind. Adams's specialist subject was the Australian soap opera
Neighbours. Between June and October 2022, he presented the weekday breakfast show on Chatterbox Radio Manchester. Following the station's closure he was then redeployed within the same production company as main co-presenter of
Your Manchester, a weekly online magazine programme focusing on
Greater Manchester news and events. Adams had previously served as a reporter for the show since March of the same year. He departed in the first quarter of 2024. ==Filmography==