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The Graham Norton Show. Graham Norton. Credit: So Television, Christopher Baines
The Graham Norton Show

The Graham Norton Show

  • TV chat show
  • BBC One / BBC Two
  • 2007 - 2025
  • 514 episodes (32 series)

Comic chat show presented by Graham Norton. The biggest names in showbiz join the host on his sofa.

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Graham Norton earned £2.3m in fees and salary last year

Pay for the host of The Graham Norton Show and BBC Radio 2's Saturday morning show was down 10% on 2012.

Tara Conlan and Mark Sweney, The Guardian, 9th May 2014

Radio Times review

There's a trio of mutant superheroes in the studio as the stars of X-Men: Days of Future Past (Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender) take their place on Graham's sofa.

They've all been on the show before but, judging by an online Q&A with them, when they're together there's a lot of laughter, back-slapping and fooling around. Plus the occasional send-up of their rather theatrical co-stars, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen.

Bringing a little femininity to proceedings is Eurovision hopeful Molly, who performs Children of the Universe.

Jane Rackham, Radio Times, 2nd May 2014

Radio Times review

It's men-only on Graham's guest list this evening as Joey from Friends (aka Matt LeBlanc) cosies up alongside Seth Rogen and Zac Efron who are in the UK to promote their new film Bad Neighbours.

Coincidentally, Le Blanc and Efron appeared on the show together in 2012 when there was much joshing about the High School Musical star's schmaltzy film choices. However, with reports suggesting that Efron has some issues with sobriety, it will be interesting to see whether Norton broaches the subject and explores the now commonplace transition from wholesome Disney star to troubled adult actor.

Ellie Austin, Radio Times, 25th April 2014

Radio Times review

There's a trio of superheroes on the sofa in the form of the stars of The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Jamie Foxx (who is unrecognisable as the film's terrifying villain, Electro).

No doubt Graham will be climbing the walls and dangling from the ceiling trying to persuade the loved-up Garfield and Stone to open up about their real-life relationship, which amazingly they managed to keep secret for ages.

Music comes from Paolo Nutini who releases his new album, Caustic Love, on 14 April.

Jane Rackham, Radio Times, 11th April 2014

Radio Times review

Alan Carr: Chatty Man may have won the 2014 Royal Television Society Award for best entertainment performance, but there's no doubt that The Graham Norton Show is the one that attracts the best A-list guests.

Settling down on his sofa are Hollywood stars Russell Crowe (who indiscreetly voted Cate Blanchett the best on-screen kisser the last time he appeared on the show) and Cameron Diaz (who lassoed a fake cow - don't ask - but this time is probably plugging her relationship comedy The Other Woman).

Joining them are The Voice UK mentor Kylie Minogue and Richard Ayoade, whose new movie The Double has just opened.

Jane Rackham, Radio Times, 4th April 2014

It's a clash of the titans of TV entertainment as multi award-winning Graham Norton plays host to multi award-winning TV hosts Ant and Dec in the last hurrah of the current series. The cheeky banter will be on overload between a trio never lost for words, so will the rest of the guests - supermodel Naomi Campbell (right), Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul, The Fall's Jamie Dornan, soon to star in Fifty Shades of Grey, and Brit Award-winner Ellie Goulding - be able to get a word in edgeways?

Carol Carter, Metro, 28th February 2014

His name is Cooper, Dominic Cooper... currently stirring things up on Sky Atlantic as Ian Fleming, the chap who gave birth to 007. The History Boys actor settles himself down in Norton's studio for a chat alongside the charmingly bonkers Miriam Margolyes, who's heading to Australia later this year with her one-woman show, I'll Eat You Last. And Lily Allen, still flying high from her Christmas success with Somewhere Only We Know, gives us a taste of her perky new song Air Balloon.

Carol Carter and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro, 21st February 2014

Radio Times review

The incomparable Miriam Margolyes has become a semi-regular on Graham's couch in recent years. It's easy to see why: charmingly eccentric and outrageous (the last time she was on she told a show-stealing story about "assisting" a sex-starved soldier up a tree in Edinburgh), she's one of those daffy English wits we thought we just didn't make any more.

Remember when the likes of Peter Ustinov and Kenneth Williams would frequently turn up on Parkinson and Wogan, not to plug anything in particular but just because they were always good value? Margolyes is one of the few remaining figures we have in that vein.

So, should fellow guests Lily Allen and Dominic Cooper fail to cut the mustard, Graham can always rely on his real star turn to pick up the slack.

Paul Whitelaw, Radio Times, 21st February 2014

The Graham Norton Show tops Friday ratings with 4.38m

The Graham Norton Show was Friday's (February 14) highest-rated show outside of soaps.

Liam Martin, Digital Spy, 15th February 2014

Two US actors and a stiff upper lip grace Norton's studio tonight as Matt Damon, Bill Murray and Hugh Bonneville drop in to give us the lowdown on their roles in George Clooney's The Monuments Men.

Quirky songbird Paloma Faith turns on the funk in the studio with her latest single, Can't Rely On You. If you can't wait until tonight, here's a rollicking live version doing the rounds online that was recorded in a kitchen, complete with backing singers and an acre of tartan.

Carol Carter and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro, 14th February 2014

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