The Jonathan Ross Show

Meeting One Direction a big night for Jonathan Ross

Welcoming the boy band One Direction to his ITV chat show could land Jonathan Ross a new young audience.

After buying a house with a tennis court attached, Jonathan Ross developed a love of the game that finds him knocking up with a comedy coterie including Michael McIntyre, Jimmy Carr and David Baddiel. Tips from a Wimbledon champion are quite another thing, though, and having predicted that Andy Murray would triumph earlier this year, Ross welcomes him to the sofa to relive his glories.

They're joined by Celine Dion, whose new studio album Loved Me Back To Life is her first big English-language release since 2007. Perhaps unfairly, neither Murray nor Dion are known for their comedy punchlines, so Johnny Vegas and John Barrowman will be bringing the funny.

Jonathan Ross guest list is as flat as a pancake

Jonathan Ross's guest list is as flat as a pancake while Graham Norton picks the cherries. Even Alan Carr's Chatty Man is putting Ross to shame as he is forced to plug ITV's mediocre shows.

It will be interesting to see how master baker Paul Hollywood copes perched on a sofa chatting without some dough to knock about and knead while he talks. He'll be doing just that in his new daytime series, which starts on Monday.

Joining him tonight is Steve Coogan who has had an impressive year, thanks to his diverse roles in The Look of Love, Alpha Papa and What Maisie Knew, but also because he won Best Screenplay for Philomena at the Venice Film Festival.

Adding bite to the evening is Dracula star Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

As Kirsty Lang discovered in her piece for Radio Times a few weeks ago, Naomi Campbell is not the easiest of interviewees. Let's hope Ross doesn't ask the wrong question and cause the supermodel to strop out, as she did with Kirsty. Or rather, let's hope he does: it's just the voltage-raiser the show needs, seeing as his other guests tonight are the three X Factor judges (Gary Barlow, Louis Walsh and Nicole Scherzinger). A simple-minded soul might think Ross's guest-bookers were running out of juice.

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.

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.

Jonathan Ross on alpha males, Sherlock, flirting and TV

"It's a great time to be alive and a fun time to be in show business"

Jonathan Ross extends ITV chat show deal

Jonathan Ross has signed a new deal with ITV to extend his chat show on the channel until the end of next year.

Jonathan Ross has eye on move to LA with wife

He has been entertaining us with his chat show for more than a decade but Jonathan Ross is planning to bid goodbye to the UK small-screen and move to Los Angeles with his producer wife Jane Goldman.