V Graham Norton

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V Graham Norton
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Genre Comedy
Presented by Graham Norton
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series5
No. of episodes264
Production
Running time30 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production company So Television
Release
Original network Channel 4
Original 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 Nortonis 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.

Contents

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

DateEpisode
Number
Guests
Series 1 [3]
6 May 20021 Grace Jones and Ronan Keating
7 May 20022 Petula Clark
8 May 20023 Jilly Cooper
9 May 20024 Sophia Loren
10 May 20025 Josh Hartnett
13 May 20026 Gary Numan and Terry Venables
14 May 20027 Gillian Anderson
15 May 20028 Kacey Ainsworth
16 May 20029 Lulu and A1
17 May 200210 Deborah Harry
20 May 200211 Martha Reeves and Marc Salem
21 May 200212 Lucy Speed and The Proclaimers
22 May 200213 Joan Collins and Mark O'Shea
23 May 200214 Joely Fisher and James Herbert
24 May 200215 Will Young
27 May 200216 Jerry Hall
28 May 200217 Samantha Mumba
29 May 200218 Andie MacDowell
30 May 200219 Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Ruby Wax
31 May 200220 Naomi Campbell
3 Jun 200221 Liz Smith and Alex Ferns
4 Jun 200222 Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne
5 Jun 200223 Kevin Kennedy and Liza Tarbuck
6 Jun 200224 Ben Elton
7 Jun 200225 Alan Cumming
10 Jun 200226 Emma Chambers and Huey Morgan
11 Jun 200227 Sheryl Crow
12 Jun 200228 Alex Kingston
13 Jun 200229 Toyah Willcox and Joachim Cortes
14 Jun 200230 Jennifer Tilly
17 Jun 200231 Daryl Hannah
18 Jun 200232 Joan Rivers and Mis-Teeq
19 Jun 200233 Ben Chaplin
20 Jun 200234 Gillian Taylforth
21 Jun 200235 Ivana Trump and Sonya Fitzpatrick
24 Jun 200236 Natalie Imbruglia and Mo Mowlam
25 Jun 200237 Kathy Burke
26 Jun 200238 Dennis Hopper
27 Jun 200239 Neil Diamond
28 Jun 200240 Siouxsie Sioux
1 Jul 200241 Morten Harket and Jackie Collins
2 Jul 200242 Isaac Hayes
3 Jul 200243 Anthony Head
4 Jul 200244 Harvey Keitel
5 Jul 200245 Bryan Adams
8 Jul 200246 Mike Myers and Robert Wagner
9 Jul 200247 Milla Jovovich
10 Jul 200248 Rachel Griffiths
10 Jul 200249 Barbara Hershey
12 Jul 200250 Sandra Bernhard
15 Jul 200251 Steve Irwin
16 Jul 200252 Jimi Mistry
17 Jul 200253 Paul Nicholls and the Pet Shop Boys
18 Jul 200254 Margarita Pracatan
19 Jul 200255 Bo Derek
22 Jul 200256 Kyle MacLachlan
23 Jul 200257 Gordon Ramsay
24 Jul 200258 Russell Watson
25 Jul 200259 Dustin Hoffman
26 Jul 200260 Rupert Everett and the Sugababes
29 Jul 200261 Liza Minnelli
30 Jul 200262 Brenda Blethyn and Jade Goody
31 Jul 200263 Alison Moyet and Jade Goody
1 Aug 200264 Ursula Andress and Jade Goody
2 Aug 200265 Alanis Morissette

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