V Graham Norton

V Graham Norton
GenreComedy
Presented byGraham Norton
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series5
No. of episodes264
Production
Running time30 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production companySo Television
Original release
NetworkChannel 4
Release6 May 2002 (2002-05-06) –
28 December 2003 (2003-12-28)
Related
So Graham Norton (1998–2002)
The Graham Norton Show (2007–present)

V Graham Norton is a British chat show broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom starring Graham Norton, broadcast every weeknight as a successor to the weekly So Graham Norton. It aired from 6 May 2002 to 28 December 2003.[1] It featured celebrities who chatted with Graham and became involved in studio games which were usually laden with sexual innuendo. The studio games were later featured on the clip show Nortonland in 2007 on digital channel Challenge.

The show features a 'webcam', a roving television camera which was randomly situated in a different place in the UK each week (though often in Covent Garden) and which followed Graham's instructions and allowed him to interact live with the public. The feature was made technically possible using digital microwave link technology provided by Rear Window Television with the 'spontaneous' webcam feature always produced as a full quality outside broadcast, before being made to look like a traditional webcam at the studio.

The most often repeated (and voted as the show's funniest) moment involved Graham and Dustin Hoffman interacting live with a passenger (and later, the driver) of a London taxi cab driving through the city. Another notable episode was with Harvey Keitel who was upset by Graham having an action figure with a gun based on his character in Reservoir Dogs.[2]

Episode guide

Date Episode
Number 		Guests
Series 1[3]
6 May 2002 1 Grace Jones and Ronan Keating
7 May 2002 2 Petula Clark
8 May 2002 3 Jilly Cooper
9 May 2002 4 Sophia Loren
10 May 2002 5 Josh Hartnett
13 May 2002 6 Gary Numan and Terry Venables
14 May 2002 7 Gillian Anderson
15 May 2002 8 Kacey Ainsworth
16 May 2002 9 Lulu and A1
17 May 2002 10 Deborah Harry
20 May 2002 11 Martha Reeves and Marc Salem
21 May 2002 12 Lucy Speed and The Proclaimers
22 May 2002 13 Joan Collins and Mark O'Shea
23 May 2002 14 Joely Fisher and James Herbert
24 May 2002 15 Will Young
27 May 2002 16 Jerry Hall
28 May 2002 17 Samantha Mumba
29 May 2002 18 Andie MacDowell
30 May 2002 19 Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Ruby Wax
31 May 2002 20 Naomi Campbell
3 Jun 2002 21 Liz Smith and Alex Ferns
4 Jun 2002 22 Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne
5 Jun 2002 23 Kevin Kennedy and Liza Tarbuck
6 Jun 2002 24 Ben Elton
7 Jun 2002 25 Alan Cumming
10 Jun 2002 26 Emma Chambers and Huey Morgan
11 Jun 2002 27 Sheryl Crow
12 Jun 2002 28 Alex Kingston
13 Jun 2002 29 Toyah Willcox and Joachim Cortes
14 Jun 2002 30 Jennifer Tilly
17 Jun 2002 31 Daryl Hannah
18 Jun 2002 32 Joan Rivers and Mis-Teeq
19 Jun 2002 33 Ben Chaplin
20 Jun 2002 34 Gillian Taylforth
21 Jun 2002 35 Ivana Trump and Sonya Fitzpatrick
24 Jun 2002 36 Natalie Imbruglia and Mo Mowlam
25 Jun 2002 37 Kathy Burke
26 Jun 2002 38 Dennis Hopper
27 Jun 2002 39 Neil Diamond
28 Jun 2002 40 Siouxsie Sioux
1 Jul 2002 41 Morten Harket and Jackie Collins
2 Jul 2002 42 Isaac Hayes
3 Jul 2002 43 Anthony Head
4 Jul 2002 44 Harvey Keitel
5 Jul 2002 45 Bryan Adams
8 Jul 2002 46 Mike Myers and Robert Wagner
9 Jul 2002 47 Milla Jovovich
10 Jul 2002 48 Rachel Griffiths
10 Jul 2002 49 Barbara Hershey
12 Jul 2002 50 Sandra Bernhard
15 Jul 2002 51 Steve Irwin
16 Jul 2002 52 Jimi Mistry
17 Jul 2002 53 Paul Nicholls and the Pet Shop Boys
18 Jul 2002 54 Margarita Pracatan
19 Jul 2002 55 Bo Derek
22 Jul 2002 56 Kyle MacLachlan
23 Jul 2002 57 Gordon Ramsay
24 Jul 2002 58 Russell Watson
25 Jul 2002 59 Dustin Hoffman
26 Jul 2002 60 Rupert Everett and the Sugababes
29 Jul 2002 61 Liza Minnelli
30 Jul 2002 62 Brenda Blethyn and Jade Goody
31 Jul 2002 63 Alison Moyet and Jade Goody
1 Aug 2002 64 Ursula Andress and Jade Goody
2 Aug 2002 65 Alanis Morissette

References

  1. ^ "Graham Norton: Get to Know the Best Late-Night Host on Television | Anglophenia | BBC America". www.bbcamerica.com. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Graham Norton defends modern chat shows". Independent.co.uk. 9 October 2012.
  3. ^ "So Television - Guest Archive List". sotelevision.co.uk. 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2012.


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