The Graham Norton Show

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.

There have been some proper magic moments during the most recent run of the peerless Graham Norton Show, and you can relive them all in this compilation.

Probably the biggest moment was the Fresh Prince of Bel Air reunion when Will Smith, with son Jaden, introduced Alfonso Ribeiro, who played Carlton in the show, to dance to "It's Not Unusual". It became a monster YouTube hit. And Star Trek: Into Darkness stars Chris Pine and Benedict Cumberbatch were good value when they hugged devoted audience members who'd travelled from as far as Japan just to see them on the show. Now that's love.

It's Graham Norton's last soirée of the series (next week's episode is a best-bits review) but he'll have to go some to top Chris O'Dowd's fly-eating moment. He's lined up a pair of Hollywood heavyweights for the occasion: Samuel L Jackson, talking about his latest role as campaign chairman of One For The Boys, a charity raising awareness of men's health problems, and Sandra Bullock, whose cop comedy The Heat is out next month.

Voicing characters in animated films has become a must-have on the CV of any self-respecting actor these days, so it's no surprise that Steve Carell, one of the more recognisable faces of US comedy, is bouncing around on Norton's sofa to champion his new role as Gru in Despicable Me 2. Jostling alongside Carell are Irish actor Chris O'Dowd (Moone Boy, The IT Crowd) - star of US mockumentary Family Tree, coming soon to BBC2 - and US singer Josh Groban, fresh from a gig at London's O2 arena. But will any of tonight's guests be as trigger-happy on the red chair lever as Russell Crowe was last week?

Graham Norton on why his friends are so important

He is self­ deprecating without being needy and isn't afraid to share the affairs of his own heart, only this week revealing that his two­ year relationship with Canadian software designer Trevor Patterson ended in the spring.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Henry Cavill, swooping in to flutter his cape at an appreciative Graham Norton as the latest incarnation of Superman in hotly tipped summer blockbuster Man Of Steel.

Cavill's co-stars Russell Crowe (Superman's Krypton dad Jor-El) and Amy Adams (feisty reporter cum love interest Lois Lane) will also be cosying up on Norton's sofa to give us the inside cape on the latest glossy blockbuster take on the classic superhero tale. Katy B provides the musical interlude.