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The presenter used to host a series in Norton\u2019s slot, starting in 2001, but he jumped to ITV after being dropped by the BBC in 2010. Since then, The Graham Norton Show<\/span>, which premiered on BBC Two in 2007, has gone from strength to strength, becoming a favourite stop-off for the most globally recognisable faces, including Julia Roberts and \u00adHarrison Ford \u2013 and even earning the host an invitation to Taylor Swift\u2019s wedding.<\/p>\n Ross, whose ITV chat show has aired on Saturday nights since 2011, has expressed confusion over why the Irish presenter books all the A-listers from overseas while his sofa is typically filled with British talent.<\/p>\n \u201cHe gets American names, and I am not quite sure why that is,\u201d he told The Times <\/span>when asked if Norton gets more famous guests. \u201cI think they have a better relationship with the studios, and by \u2018better\u2019, I mean more conciliatory.\u201d<\/p>\n However, the presenter said he does not think his show \u201cis any weaker\u201d because of the lower calibre of celebrity guests.<\/p>\n \u201cWe put a lot of thought into the mix of people we get on. I try not to have all actors. I try not to have all comedians. I try to have a variety of ages and, obviously, sexes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He also acknowledged that Norton\u2019s overnight viewing figures are \u201cslightly better\u201d, but said \u201con catch-up, we are about the same\u201d.<\/p>\n Norton presented So Graham Norton<\/span>, on Channel 4 from 1998 to 2003. Two years later, he began hosting shows for the BBC, including several Andrew Lloyd Webber reality shows searching for new leads for West End productions.<\/p>\n Caludia stood in for me last year and she had an amazing job<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The success of these led to Norton being given his own 30-minute chat show on BBC Two in 2007, which was promoted to an hour-long slot on BBC One in 2009.<\/p>\n Last year, Norton\u2019s show, now on to its 33rd series and averaging 2.9 million viewers an episode, was renewed for another three runs, ensuring the host would remain on the air until at least 2028.<\/p>\n At its height, Ross\u2019s former BBC show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross<\/span> averaged 3.1 million weekly viewers. The show, which ended permanently in 2010, was initially pulled in 2008 after the presenter and Russell Brand prank-called Fawlty Towers <\/span>actor Andrew Sachs during Brand\u2019s BBC Radio 2 show.<\/p>\n They made several calls to Sachs, and Brand left a voice message saying he\u2019d had sex with Sachs\u2019s granddaughter, Georgina Baillie. They were both suspended by the BBC without pay. This month, Traitors<\/span> and former Strictly<\/span> host Claudia Winkleman will launch her own Friday night show on the BBC.<\/p>\n Clarifying where his show fits in this new landscape, Norton told Lorraine<\/span>: \u201cWhen I finish at the end of February, I used to come back and do kind of April, May series, so I stopped doing that a few years ago and this idea came up that Claudia could come and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cShe stood in for me last year and she had an amazing job. I thought she was very Claudia and this is going to be even more Claudia because, you know, it\u2019s her own set, her own everything.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.ie \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The presenter used to host a series in Norton\u2019s slot, starting in 2001, but he jumped to ITV after being dropped by the BBC in 2010. 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