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. 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.
Episode guide Date EpisodeNumber Guests Series 1 6 May 2002 1Grace 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
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