Friday Night With Jonathan Ross
- TV chat show
- BBC One
- 2001 - 2010
- 275 episodes (18 series)
A long-running chat show in which Jonathan Ross talked to the biggest names in film, music and television. Stars Jonathan Ross, David Roper, David Wickenden, Ian Parkin and Stephen de Martin
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David Beckham, Roxy Music, Mickey Rourke and Jackie Chan will be the last ever guests on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross which ends tonight. After the outcry over his £6million salary, and the prank phone call to Andrew Sachs that led to his suspension (and, ironically, jump-started Sachs' career) his position at the top of the BBC totem pole had become untenable. But it's not the end of Wossy.
He's already signed a deal with ITV for a brand new show which will appear towards the end of 2011, making him the third BBC presenter, after Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley to defect to ITV recently.
The move also means he'll have presented talk shows on three different networks, having made his presenting debut in the Last Resort With Jonathan Ross on Channel 4. It was that show which first shook up the staid and stuffy British chat show by injecting satirical comedy, irreverence and a fresh, American-style vibe. That style has now become so much the norm you couldn't imagine it being any other way.
Friday nights really won't be the same without him.
Jane Simon, The Mirror, 16th July 2010Jonathan Ross: his BBC highs and lows
As the final Friday Night with Jonathan Ross nears, here are some of his most memorable moments - for better or worse.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 16th July 2010Jonathan Ross 'honoured' to have worked at BBC
Jonathan Ross has recorded his final chat show for the BBC and said he was "grateful, lucky and honoured" to have worked at the corporation.
BBC News, 15th July 2010Jonathan Ross's most memorable moments
Eighteen series on, we take a look back at Wossy's ten most memorable moments at the top table of TV talk.
Steve Berry, Yahoo, 14th July 2010Video: Fans mourn Jonathan Ross's final show
Jonathan Ross is taping his final "Friday Night" show for the BBC after a career with the organisation spanning 13 years.
Lizo Mzimba, BBC News, 14th July 2010Where was Russell Brand on Jonathan Ross?
After a no-show on Ross's last ever BBC chat show, does this mean Russell Brand has put his bawdy days behind him?
John Crace, The Guardian, 13th July 2010A little less conversation, a little more action
Jonathan Ross is moving to ITV with a new chat show - but it's time to retire this tired, old format, says Gerard Gilbert.
Gerard Gilbert, The Independent, 12th July 2010In praise of Jonathan Ross's past work
So Jonathan Ross's BBC chat show has finished. It has ceased to be. He's off now to ITV. It's easy to knock him for Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, although he frequently knew what he was talking about...
Rob Buckley, The Medium Is Not Enough, 12th July 2010Jonathan Ross ends a television era at the BBC
He shook up television entertainment in Britain and became the chatshow king. Now his fans must wait for him to return on ITV.
Vanessa Thorpe, The Observer, 11th July 2010Friday Night With Jonathan Ross to Where Are They Now?
From 4 Poofs And A Piano to I Blame Coco - who will give these poor folk airtime now that Wossy has left the BBC?
Rob Fitzpatrick, The Guardian, 10th July 2010