Al-Shamahi is producer and presenter on the BBC2 show Neanderthals: Meet Your Ancestors, on which she works with Andy Serkis.[14] She is also a stand-up comic and performed three shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.[15][16] She furthermore presented an episode for Horizon called Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick?, for which she locked a test subject in an underground bunker for 10 days.[17] In 2020 she presented Channel 4's Jungle Mystery: Lost Kingdoms of the Amazon.