Graham Norton

The mighty Graham Norton returned to his Friday night chat-berth last week, when he was greeted with open arms by viewers, and tonight the slightly less mighty Ross is back. The unspoken but received wisdom is that Norton gets the good guests, but the opening show is stellar. Tom Hanks is the guest everyone wants because he's a pro - easy-going, effortlessly funny, he knows what's required of him and he delivers. He'' with Ross tonight to talk about his new film Captain Phillips, based on the true story of the hijacking of a ship by Somali pirates. The word "Oscar" is already being bandied about. Fellow guest Sandra Bullock could be up for glittering prizes too with her new film Gravity, about stranded astronauts.

Graham Norton: 'Being gay is easy, being camp is hard'

From growing up a Protestant in the Republic of Ireland, Graham Norton has always seen himself as an outsider.

The battle of the Friday night chat shows is rejoined, with Graham Norton returning to the pitch Channel 4 rival Alan Carr has had to himself these past few weeks.

Norton is hitting big on opening night, with Hollywood legend Harrison Ford, on the promo trail for new movie Ender's Game, and the versatile Benedict Cumberbatch dropping by for a chat and Jack Whitehall providing the funnies.

Jonathan Ross: 'I have bounce in my step again now'

Jonathan Ross says he is ready to reclaim his title from Graham Norton after admitting that ITV has yet to see the best of him.

MediaGuardian 100 2013 - 51. Graham Norton

With a Friday night BBC One chatshow and Saturday morning Radio 2 show, he is firmly entrenched as the face of BBC entertainment.

Graham Norton gets own brand wine

Graham Norton is to get his own vintage of wine as the company that supplies his chat show is putting out a brand under his name.

Mark Wahlberg says Graham Norton antics pre-planned

When Mark Wahlberg went on The Graham Norton Show back in March, it went down as one of the all time great car-crash chat show guest appearances. It appears everyone was wrong. According to Walhlberg himself, his erratic behaviour was pre-planned.

Graham Norton paid more than £2.5m last year

Graham Norton was paid more than £2.5m in fees and salary last year, for services including fronting BBC1's The Graham Norton Show and BBC Radio 2 Saturday programme.

Graham Norton's new £4m TV deal

Graham Norton has landed a new mega £4million three-year deal with the BBC.

Graham Norton may have been made more family-friendly of late, but the dildo-brandisher of the past still capers somewhere at the back of his consciousness; his chat show remains peppered with arch humour, and sycophancy is earned by guests rather than doled out to all, as with Jonathan Ross. Tonight's instalment is a best-bits clip show, in case you missed his sparring with Hollywood heavyweights Tom Cruise, Michael Douglas, Amy Adams and Will Smith, plus UK talent such as Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch.