The Graham Norton Show


12:30 am - 01:20 am, Monday, February 2 on BBC One London HD (101)

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The host is joined by Oscar-winner Halle Berry and Aussie star of Thor Chris Hemsworth, who are appearing together in new crime thriller Crime 101. Mean Girls and Spotlight star Rachel McAdams chats about her darkly comedic survival film Send Help and comedian John Bishop explains how his life has been the inspiration for new Hollywood movie Is This Thing On? There's also music and chat with Jessie Ware


HD subtitles repeat 16x9
Comedy Movie/Drama Show/Game Show Talk Show

Cast & Crew

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Jessie Ware (Musical guest)
Toby Baker (Director)
Jon Magnusson (Series producer)
Graham Stuart (Executive producer)

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Graham Norton (Host)
Born: April 04, 1963 in Dublin
Best Known For: His double entendres and cheeky chat show.
Early-life: Born Graham William Walker on 4 April, 1963, in Dublin. Studied English and French at Cork University and came top in his exams before dropping out after his second year to join a commune in San Francisco. Later arrived in Britain to study at the Central School of Drama in London. Initially wanted to play serious parts, but realised he was better at making people laugh and concentrated on comedy.
Career: Started as a stand-up comedian, presented short-lived game show Carnal Knowledge and appeared on Father Ted. Got his big break in 1997 presenting The Jack Docherty Show while the regular host was on holiday. Norton won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards, beating Docherty who had been nominated for the same plaudit. In 1998, he landed his own chat show, So Graham Norton, and started the production company, So Television. He signed a multi-million-dollar contract to host an American version of his chat show, The Graham Norton Effect, before moving to the BBC in 2004, presenting programmes including Strictly Dance Fever and The Bigger Picture. Since then, his star has gone into orbit, fronting endless musical reality shows, resurrecting his chat show, and recently taking over as the voice of Eurovision.
Quote: On how he purchases clothes - "If it's shiny, I buy it."
Trivia: He writes an advice column in The Daily Telegraph.
Halle Berry (Guest)
Born: December 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio
Best Known For: Her tearful Oscar speech.
Early-life: Born Maria Halle Berry on August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of an African-American hospital attendant and his English wife, a psychiatric nurse. Her parents divorced when she was four and Halle claims she hasn't seen her father since. She has an older sister, Heidi. After high school, Berry became a beauty queen, winning the Miss Teen All-American pageant. She was the first black American to take part in Miss World and enjoyed a successful stint as a model.
Career: Berry had a regular role in TV series Living Dolls in 1989, followed by a two-year stint in Dallas spin-off Knots Landing. Early films include Jungle Fever, Boomerang, and The Flintstones. She received acclaim for her performance in Bullworth in 1998, and a year later won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for playing the lead in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. Projects since include Swordfish, Die Another Day, X-Men and its sequels, and Monster's Ball, for which she won a Best Actress Oscar. In 2005, she was given a worst actress Razzie award for Catwoman - and is one of the few stars to turn up to the ceremony to accept it. Other projects include Perfect Stranger, Things We Lost in the Fire, Frankie and Alice, Could Atlas, The Call and X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Quote: "I entertain people and get paid for it. Sometimes it seems like such a shallow existence. How insignificant in the scheme of life."
Trivia: Robert Downey Jr broke her arm during the filming of a scene in Gothika. Production had to be halted for eight weeks.
Chris Hemsworth (Guest)
Born: August 11, 1983 in Melbourne
Best Known For: Playing superhero Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Early-life: Christopher Hemsworth was born in Melbourne on August 11, 1983 to Leonie and Craig. He was raised in Melbourne and an Aboriginal community in the Outback called Bulman. His older brother Luke and younger brother Liam are also actors. In 2004, Chris was cast as Kim Hyde in Home and Away, a role he went on to play for more than 180 episodes.
Career: Hemsworth landed his first film role in Star Trek (2009), playing James T Kirk's father, George Kirk. The films A Perfect Getaway (2009) and Ca$h (2010) followed until he got his big break playing the title role in Thor (2011). He has reprised his Thor character in Avengers Assemble (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). His other films include The Cabin in the Woods (2012), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Red Dawn (2012), Rush (2013), Blackhat (2015), In the Heart of the Sea (2015) and Ghostbusters (2016).
Quote: On acting: "I love the adventure that comes with this work, the travel and all that. But also the craft, the storytelling."
Trivia: For the first Thor film, Hemsworth put on 20 pounds of muscle to play the title character. In 2006, he was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars Australia. He was eliminated after six weeks.
Rachel McAdams (Guest)
Born: November 17, 1978 in London, Ontario
Best Known For: Morning Glory and Mean Girls.
Early-life: Rachel Anne McAdams was born in London, Ontario, on November 17, 1978. She is the eldest of three children. She began figure skating at the age of four and competed in the sport until she was 18. She attended Disney and Shakespeare summer camps as a child and from the age of 12, appeared in Original Kids Theatre Company productions. After being persuaded by her English teacher to consider a career in acting, she enrolled on a four-year theatre programme at York University in Toronto. While at university, Rachel worked with the Necessary Angel Theatre Company.
Career: In 2001, McAdams shot an MTV pilot called Shotgun Love Dolls and in the same year, she made her film debut in My Name is Tanino. She received a Genie Award nomination in Canada for her role in Perfect Pie (2002). Her first Hollywood movie was The Hot Chick (2002), and her big break came in 2004 when she starred opposite Lindsay Lohan in teen comedy Mean Girls. Since then, McAdams has appeared in The Notebook (2004), Wedding Crashers (2005), State of Play (2009), Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Morning Glory (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011) and About Time (2013).
Quote: "I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward."
Trivia: Worked at McDonald's for three summers with her sister, Kayleen, and her brother, Dan.
John Bishop (Guest)
Born: November 30, 1966 in Liverpool
Best Known For: Being a comedian.
Early-life: John Joseph Bishop was born in Liverpool on November 30, 1966 to Ernie and Kathy. He has a brother and two sisters. During the 1990s, John was working as a medical representative for the pharmaceutical company Syntex. He performed his first stand-up gig in Manchester in 2000.
Career: Bishop continued to pursue his comedy ambitions and in 2001, he made it through to the final of So You Think You're Funny in Edinburgh. It was won that year by Miles Jupp and Alan Carr came third. In 2002, Bishop was named best comedy newcomer by BBC Radio Merseyside and a couple of years later, he won the North West Comedy Award for best stand-up. He left his job as a medical rep in 2006 to focus full-time on comedy. The move paid off because he now embarks on sell-out arena tours, fronts his own TV shows and is a regular on panel shows. In 2013, he hosted the Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium.
Quote: "Part of me thinks someone somewhere is living my old life and I've just borrowed theirs for a while."
Trivia: Bishop supports Liverpool FC. In 2012, he completed a 290-mile triathlon from Paris to London in five days to raise money for Sport Relief. His efforts raised £3.4million. In 2013, he released his autobiography, How Did All This Happen?
Jessie Ware (Musical guest)
Toby Baker (Director)
Jon Magnusson (Series producer)
Graham Stuart (Executive producer)