Graham Norton

Looking back at Green Wing

Back in 2004, Channel 4 found themselves without many of their Friday night audience magnets. Friends and Frasier both finished that year and Graham Norton had recently jumped ship to the States, taking his show format with him. Thankfully two years prior Channel 4 had commissioned a sitcom about the lives of hospital staff, and by 2004 a full series was ready to be unleashed on Friday night prime time.

Local Cork paper mixes Graham Norton up with murderer

The Southern Star in West Cork are rightly proud of local boy Graham Norton, who picked up the BAFTA for Best Comedy Entertainment Programme during the week. This news piece does manage to confuse him with a very, very, VERY different Graham though.

Why Graham Norton isn't heading for Hollywood

The chat show host might be up for a US Critics Choice Award, but he's not planning on leaving his adopted homeland any time soon...

What Graham Norton thinks about the year in TV

It's only the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday, so what better way to prepare than by looking over the year in television? And who better to do that with than with BAFTA host Graham Norton himself?

Wimbledon 'too white'... in W1A world

Heard the latest? The BBC's Wimbledon coverage is 'too white' and the broadcaster's exclusive rights to the tournament are at risk. Luckily, the BBC has a rescue plan. It's fixed on French tennis star Jo-Wilfried Tsonga as its Wimbledon saviour and is considering pepping up programming with foam fingers in the stands, David Attenborough in the umpire's chair and Graham Norton in the players' box. But hold your fury, tennis fans; this is all happening in the parallel world of W1A - BBC Two's sitcom set in the Corporation's London headquarters that will begin its second series next week.

Radio Times review

Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross and Alan Carr are not going to lose any sleep if they listen to this. Jim Moir, better known as Vic Reeves, is not a natural interviewer. It's his guest, Olivia Colman, who holds the show together, using her ability to ad-lib with wit.

I love this series. I love Vic Reeves. I love Olivia Colman. It's why I chose this as my Pick of the Week. But were it not for Colman's thespian talents there are moments when tumbleweed would have blown through the studio (à la Shooting Stars). She picks up when Reeve's questions or direction of thought trails off, and yet, while he sounds delighted to have got to the end of the show intact, there are some parts where this interview is so funny it should come with its own health warning.

If Olivia Colman had to choose between a plastic hand and a hook, which would she favour? Is she any good with blood? As I said, Reeves is not your typical interviewer, but these surreal questions do encourage Colman to reveal more about herself than she would on a predictable chat show.

And so, I now know that she believes that the path to true love depends upon clutching a fallen eyelash with one's intended and making a wish. And that she can spend hours staring at pictures of men's swollen testicles (in medical books, not real life).

It's a peculiar half-hour, but one I wouldn't have missed for the world.

Alan Carr apologises for NTA acceptance speech

Alan Carr has apologised for his acceptance speech at last night's (January 21) National Television Awards. The Chatty Man star admitted that he was unprepared as he had been so sure that Graham Norton would take home the prize for Chat Show Host.

Graham Norton: Straight people find their love easier

The openly gay chat show host, fresh from extending his multi-million pound contract with the BBC, says he would find it easier to hold down a relationship if he was straight.

Graham Norton: It's easier to find love if straight

The openly gay chat show host, fresh from extending his multi-million pound contract with the BBC, says he would find it easier to hold down a relationship if he was straight.

Jonathan Ross brands rival Graham Norton a ''d**k''

Jonathan Ross has hit out at fellow chat show host Graham Norton, branding his BBC rival a "d**k" for appearing immodest in his acceptance speech at The British Comedy Awards earlier this month.