Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Ross promises show shake-up

Jonathan Ross has promised to come back stronger for the next series of his chat show.

The Michael McIntyre Chat Show: where did it go wrong?

The producers of the comedian's ailing show are clearly trying to revamp it to play to his strengths. What do Graham Norton and Jonathan Ross have that he doesn't?

Jonathan Ross appointed to BFI Board

Jonathan Ross is one of three new members to be appointed to the BFI Governing Board.

Does the world really need another chat show? Decide for yourself as irrepressibly perky comedian Michael McIntyre tries to remind himself to shut up long enough to let his guests get a word in edgeways. Graham Norton, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross will scarcely be quaking in their boots at McIntyre's opening guest list: Lily Allen, Lord Alan Sugar and Sir Terry Wogan can all be relied on for a jolly anecdote but it's a pretty safe choice for an opening gambit. McIntyre will need something a little edgier if he's going to stand out in a crowded marketplace.

It really is time people stopped hating Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Ross has withdrawn from hosting the Hugo SF awards and his wife has quit Twitter following a backlash on social media. Can't we give the guy a break, asks Michael Hogan.

Jonathan Ross withdraws from hosting Hugo Awards

Jonathan Ross has withdrawn from being Master of Ceremonies at this year's Hugo Awards. Ross was announced as host of the ceremony earlier today via Twitter, but the news was met by a barrage of online negativity.

Video - Andrew Sachs: Brand & Ross stunt 'disgusting'

Andrew Sachs has been speaking about the so-called Sachsgate affair, in which Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand left lewd messages on his answer machine in 2008.

Radio Times review

Will James Corden ever live down the moment he was forced to cut Adele off mid-acceptance speech during the Brit Awards in 2012? And, with Corden's last appearance as host of the music extravaganza just days away, will Jonathan Ross be able to refrain from mentioning it?

We'll find out tonight as the star of The Wrong Mans and Gavin & Stacey takes his turn to be interviewed, along with the perennially glamorous actress Uma Thurman and Strictly Come Dancing winner Abbey Clancey.

Radio Times review

After some necessary spadework last week to set up the new series, now creator/star Ruth Jones pens one of the show's funniest ever episodes. Every scene brims with jokes, malapropisms ("Your dad is as strong as an egg!"), hilarious images and fruity phrasing. Aunty Brenda is in particularly searing form, struggling with her hippy daughter ("Me and 'er father split up when she was ten - she's been a road accident ever since"), questioning the integrity of the scales at Blubber Busters, and holding tense, tough negotiations with Dai about the launch of their new coach-hire company. Dai Davies, not Dai Cosh.

There's new blood, too: Sherlock star Yasmine Akram joins the cast as Jagadeesh and Tanisha's plain-speaking niece, while Jonathan Ross appears as himself in one of Stella's HRT-fuelled sex dreams.

Radio Times review

Russell Brand almost torpedoed Jonathan Ross's career after the Sachs Incident, and caused convulsions within the BBC that still smart to this day. But the scandal didn't lead to a falling out between the terrible twosome - Brand appeared on Ross's show a year ago and he's back again.

As Brand is never more than a stone's throw from an outraged newspaper headline, he's bound to fulfil expectations as the country's chief Contrarian Comedian, particularly after all of that nonsense about not voting during his Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman. Also on the show are actress Goldie Hawn, Dermot O'Leary, presenter of the National TV Awards (22 January), and troubadour James Blunt, who provides the music.