Graham Norton has won the British Comedy Award for The Best Comedy Entertainment Programme - The Graham Norton Show
Graham Norton and Sarah Millican mount a So Television domination of this year's British Comedy Awards.
Graham Norton has been nominated in the King of Comedy, Best Comedy Entertainment Show and Best Comedy Entertainment Personality categories.
Sarah Millican has been nominated in the Queen of Comedy and Best Female Television Comic category.
The Awards show broadcasts live on Thursday 12th December at 9pm on Channel 4.
The Graham Norton show has been nominated for Best Entertainment Programme in the 2014 Broadcast Awards, to held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on 5th February 2014.
The first of our programme of shows for the Edinburgh Festival 2013 have been announced with tickets now available for several productions. Watch this space for news of more shows over the coming weeks!
The founder of QI, Blackadder, and Spitting Image and co-author of The Meaning Of Liff makes his Edinburgh Fringe solo debut. Book early!
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The Graham Norton Show won the Best Entertainment Programme BAFTA award last night in a glittering ceremony hosted by Graham Norton himself. The award comes a brief 13 years after our last BAFTA for So Graham Norton.
The nominations for the 2013 BAFTA Television Awards have been announced and So Television has three of them. The Graham Norton Show is up for Best Entertainment Programme while in the Entertainment Performance award So Television has an astonishing 50% of the field. Both Graham Norton and Sarah Millican have been nominated along with Alan Carr and Ant & Dec. The awards ceremony takes place on Sunday 12th May at the Royal Festival Hall.
A second series of Alexander Armstrong’s Big Ask begins transmission on Dave from February 2013. The run starts with a compilation of Series 1 followed by 6 new episodes and a compilation of Series 2.
The BBC has announced that it wants to commission a 3rd series of The Sarah Millican Television Programme before the second series has gone to air. Series 2 is currently in production and will start transmitting in January 2013. Series 3 will be recorded at Media City in Salford in June 2013 for an Autumn transmission.
The Sarah Millican Television Programme is produced by So Scotland and Chopsy Productions.
Graham has been nominated for King/Queen of Comedy, Best Comedy Entertainment Programme and Comedy Entertainment Personality in the 2012 British Comedy Awards which will be broadcast live on Channel 4 on 14th December.
So Television has been bought by ITV Studios in a £17m deal. Denise O'Donoghue, Managing Director, ITV Studios UK said, "So Television is known for its creative rigour and intense quality-control across its programming, whether that is its crown jewel, The Graham Norton Show, or its newer but no less brilliant The Sarah Millican Television Programme. Its programming presence on other channels is strategically terrific for ITV Studios, which has increased its output this year with new shows across the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky. I am really looking forward to having So as part of ITV Studios, working with Graham Stuart and his team to add even more value to this dynamic and successful production company.”
Kevin Lygo, Managing Director of ITV Studios, said, “So Television and Graham Norton have been making high quality programmes for many years now. I believe that ITV Studios can bring scale to their ambitions and together we can continue to keep The Graham Norton Show at the top of its game and increase the amount of new programming in their production slate. This is an important acquisition for ITV Studios and demonstrates our strategy to increase our capability in the production of high quality television entertainment programming.”
Graham Norton said, “So TV has been our baby for 12 years, so I’m thrilled that the ITV family has decided to take it under their wing and help it blossom.”
Graham Stuart said, "We are incredibly excited to be starting a new chapter in the So story with ITV Studios. Now we have the chance to achieve what we've always wanted to in this industry but with real strength and inspiration behind us.”
The first episode features Sarah talking about wildlife and dating programmes through meeting naturalist Chris Packham from Spring Watch and Sexpert Tracey Cox.
Future episodes will star: distinguished actor Simon Callow, fashion designer Julian MacDonald, sports television presenter Clare Balding and star of Downton Abbey Phyllis Logan.
Together on Graham’s sofa tonight: Queen of 30 Rock, comedian and writer Tina Fey, appearing in new film Sisters; the star of The Hateful Eight, Kurt Russell (Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China); comedian Josh Widdicombe in his new self-titled sit-com Josh; and chat and music from Australian singer-songwriter Sia.
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The Graham Norton Show won the 2015 Rose D’Or for Best Entertainment Programme at a glittering ceremony at the British Museum last night.
This is the first time the long running Talk show has won a Rose D’Or, the top pan-European television and radio award.
Together on Graham’s sofa tonight: Thor star Chris Hemsworth, spearheading the new whaling movie In the Heart of the Sea, and its Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind) ; great American comedian and actress Lily Tomlin, Oscar-tipped for her role in Grandma; top comic Kevin Bridges; and music from Blake and Dame Shirley Bassey, who perform their Christmas single.
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The Graham Norton Show exclusive YouTube channel clocked up an extraordinary 2,250,000 views in just 24 hours following Web darlings Johnny Depp and Benedict Cumberbatch’s appearance on the show. 33% of views were in the US, 22% in the UK and the rest shared around the world.
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On Graham’s sofa tonight: Hollywood icon Johnny Depp and Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch, together in new mobster movie Black Mass; ex-Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe and X-Men star James McAvoy, starring in Victor Frankenstein; and music from The Corrs.
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Among the guests on Graham’s sofa tonight: double Oscar-winner Tom Hanks, starring in new Spielberg cold war thriller Bridge Of Spies; Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi; comedian and writer David Walliams; and music from comeback kings Duran Duran.
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So Radio has been commissioned to produce a second series of Don't Make Me Laugh, created and hosted by David Baddiel. This is a show in which comedians go against their natural instincts and try not to make an audience laugh.
Confirmed guests for the series so far include Ross Noble, Lee Mack, Katharine Ryan and Omid Djalili. The series records in late November and December 2015 at the RADA Studios in central London. Visit SRO Audiences for ticket information.
Together on Graham’s sofa tonight: X-Men and 12 Years a Slave star Michael Fassbender, and Oscar winner Kate Winslet, co-starring in new Danny Boyle film Steve Jobs; rapper, actor and entrepreneur 50 Cent; national treasure Julie Walters, starring in period drama Brooklyn; and music from Ellie Goulding.
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On Graham’s sofa tonight: Making her first British chat-show appearance in 42 years, Dame Maggie Smith, starring in new film The Lady in the Van with Alex Jennings, who joins her on the sofa; four-times Oscar-nominated Bradley Cooper and British star Sienna Miller, co-starring in new chef movie Burnt and chat and music from Justin Bieber, who performs the chart-topping single What Do You Mean?
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Among the guests on Graham’s sofa tonight: James Bond star Daniel Craig talks about the new Bond film Spectre; he’s joined by Naomie Harris who plays Eve Moneypenny, and Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz, who takes the role of Bond’s latest arch-enemy Franz Oberhauser; and pop superstar Sam Smith, who chats and performs Writing’s On The Wall in a live world exclusive.
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Together on Graham’s sofa tonight: Hollywood heartthrob Colin Farrell and Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz, starring in dystopian drama The Lobster; comedian and writer Dawn French, talking about her new novel According To Yes; brilliant Irish actor Chris O'Dowd, in the new Lance Armstrong film The Program; and music and chat from the great Rod Stewart, who performs from his new album Another Country.
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Together on Graham’s sofa tonight: Hollywood legend MERYL STREEP and Oscar-nominated British actress CAREY MULLIGAN, co-starring in new British drama Suffragette; Academy Award winner NICOLE KIDMAN, currently winning rave reviews on the West End stage in Photograph 51; domestic goddess NIGELLA LAWSON; and music from rising British star GABRIELLE APLIN.
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Together on Graham’s sofa tonight: Hollywood legend Robert De Niro, and Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway, co-starring in new movie The Intern; director and actor Sir Kenneth Branagh, in the new season at the Garrick Theatre; British star Tom Hiddleston, starring in supernatural horror Crimson Peak; and music from hit country group The Shires.
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Together on Graham's first sofa of the new series: Hollywood star Matt Damon, and Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain (The Help, Zero Dark Thirty), starring in new blockbuster The Martian; top comic, musician and actor Bill Bailey; and music from The Weeknd, performing the summer hit Can't Feel My Face.
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The Graham Norton Show has won the award for best Panel, Quiz or Chat show at the 11th annual Televisual Bulldog Awards in a ceremony held at The Hospital Club in London’s Covent Garden on Thursday 25th June.
The awards are voted for by the readers of Televisual Magazine and pick out the best UK programmes and Indies of the previous year. This is the third consecutive win for the show.
The Graham Norton Show has been nominated for Best Entertainment Show in this year's TV Choice Awards. The awards are voted for by the public and take place at The Hilton on Park Lane on Monday 7th September.
Viewers have until 5th June to cast their first round votes using this link!
Graham Norton and the team won the BAFTA for Comedy Entertainment Programme in the 2015 BAFTA Television Awards on Sunday. That makes eight shiny faced statues on Graham Norton’s mantelpiece now.
America loves Norton too...
The Graham Norton Show has been nominated in the Best Talk Show category for the fifth annual US Critics’ Choice Television Awards. Graham is nominated alongside the cream of US Talk Show stars including Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver and James Corden. The ceremony will take place at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on May 31st 2015.
AirHeads is an exciting new factual entertainment show for BBC Two set in the world of drones and presented by Ed Leigh, Suzy Perry, and Andrew Maxwell.
Two teams will build their own drones and then take part in extraordinary and dramatic challenges out in the world and inside the studio. The show will record on Friday 15th May 2015 at MediaCity, Manchester.
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Graham Norton has picked up two nominations in this year’s BAFTA awards. Graham, who will also host the ceremony on Awards night, adds to his seven previous nominations in the Entertainment Performance category for The Graham Norton Show. The show also picks up a nomination in the Comedy Entertainment Programme category. The ceremony will be held at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Sunday 10 May and will be broadcast on BBC One.
Award season success continues for Graham Norton and the team, as they picked up the 2015 RTS award for Best Entertainment Programme at this years’ RTS ceremony. Judges described Graham’s show as 'effortlessly slick, brilliantly cast and continually fresh’, beating rivals Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and
A League Of Their Own.
So begins production on a major pilot for BBC Two. AirHeads features teams battling to design, build and race drones in some extraordinary locations.
Graham Norton has been nominated for two Royal Television Society programme awards in the categories of Entertainment Programme and Entertainment Performance. The ceremony takes place at The Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane on Tuesday 17th March.
It was double the glitz at the 25th annual British Comedy Awards, as Graham Norton walked away with not one, but two awards. Winning Best Comedy Entertainment Programme and Best Comedy Entertainment Personality, Graham can add these two to his ever-growing collection.
This years’ National Television Awards will once again welcome an array of stars from the small screen. Yet again Graham Norton is nominated, but this year in a new category for Best Chat show Host. The ceremony is live on Wednesday 21st January at 7.30pm on ITV.
In February 2015, Graham helps to celebrate the 30th anniversary of life on Albert Square when his sofa will overflow with EastEnders stars, past and present.
Graham Norton repeats last year’s trilogy of nominations in the 2014 British Comedy Awards to be held in London on Tuesday 19th December and broadcast on Channel 4. Graham has been nominated in the King of Comedy, Best Comedy Entertainment Show and Best Comedy Entertainment Personality categories. To vote for Graham as the King of Comedy, click here
The Graham Norton Show has been nominated for Best Entertainment Programme in the 2015 Broadcast Awards. The awards are held on 4th February 2015 at The Grosvenor House hotel.
So Radio has been commissioned by Radio 4 to produce “Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice”. Stand-up comedian Deborah Frances-White tells four extraordinary true life stories. Each hilarious and gripping tale sees her roll the dice with her own life.
So Television has been nominated as Production Company of the Year in this year's Edinburgh TV awards, for the second consecutive year.
The Edinburgh TV awards are held as part of the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival and celebrate the creative, innovative and commercial solutions that broadcasters and production companies have presented to the British public in the last year.
So Television has been nominated three times in this year's BAFTA Television Awards and once in the BAFTA Craft & Design Awards. Graham Norton who is hosting the Television Awards show is nominated in the Best Entertainment Performance category and The Graham Norton Show is up for a Comedy Entertainment award. Sarah Millican is also nominated for the Best Entertainment Performance, giving So Television 50% of the nominations.
Meanwhile Steve Smith, director of The Graham Norton Show, receives a well-deserved nomination for his multi-camera direction in the BAFTA Craft & Design Awards.
The BAFTA Craft & Design Awards are held on 27th April 2014 and the BAFTA Television Awards are held on 18th May 2014.
Graham Norton has won the British Comedy Award for The Best Comedy Entertainment Programme - The Graham Norton Show
Graham Norton and Sarah Millican mount a So Television domination of this year's British Comedy Awards.
Graham Norton has been nominated in the King of Comedy, Best Comedy Entertainment Show and Best Comedy Entertainment Personality categories.
Sarah Millican has been nominated in the Queen of Comedy and Best Female Television Comic category.
The Awards show broadcasts live on Thursday 12th December at 9pm on Channel 4.
The Graham Norton show has been nominated for Best Entertainment Programme in the 2014 Broadcast Awards, to held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on 5th February 2014.
The first of our programme of shows for the Edinburgh Festival 2013 have been announced with tickets now available for several productions. Watch this space for news of more shows over the coming weeks!
The founder of QI, Blackadder, and Spitting Image and co-author of The Meaning Of Liff makes his Edinburgh Fringe solo debut. Book early!
★★★★★ - The Telegraph
★★★★ - The Times/ Time Out/ Broadway Baby/ Chortle
The stand-up turns interviewer in this live version of the popular podcast featuring in depth interviews with comedy’s most respected names. Previous guests have included Sarah Millican to Dr Brown! Full listings on www.comedianscomedian.com
★★★★★ - Broadway Baby
‘Inventive, funny and wildly ambitious – you’ll never see anything like it’ *****
(The Skinny)
After their hit ‘dad-rock’ album ‘Dark Side of the Moob’, the boys are back with another collection of witty, elegant, sophisticated and, at times, rather unpleasant songs. Warning: childish content.
★★★★ - Edinburgh Reporter
The Graham Norton Show won the Best Entertainment Programme BAFTA award last night in a glittering ceremony hosted by Graham Norton himself. The award comes a brief 13 years after our last BAFTA for So Graham Norton.
The nominations for the 2013 BAFTA Television Awards have been announced and So Television has three of them. The Graham Norton Show is up for Best Entertainment Programme while in the Entertainment Performance award So Television has an astonishing 50% of the field. Both Graham Norton and Sarah Millican have been nominated along with Alan Carr and Ant & Dec. The awards ceremony takes place on Sunday 12th May at the Royal Festival Hall.
A second series of Alexander Armstrong’s Big Ask begins transmission on Dave from February 2013. The run starts with a compilation of Series 1 followed by 6 new episodes and a compilation of Series 2.
The BBC has announced that it wants to commission a 3rd series of The Sarah Millican Television Programme before the second series has gone to air. Series 2 is currently in production and will start transmitting in January 2013. Series 3 will be recorded at Media City in Salford in June 2013 for an Autumn transmission.
The Sarah Millican Television Programme is produced by So Scotland and Chopsy Productions.
Graham has been nominated for King/Queen of Comedy, Best Comedy Entertainment Programme and Comedy Entertainment Personality in the 2012 British Comedy Awards which will be broadcast live on Channel 4 on 14th December.
So Television has been bought by ITV Studios in a £17m deal. Denise O'Donoghue, Managing Director, ITV Studios UK said, "So Television is known for its creative rigour and intense quality-control across its programming, whether that is its crown jewel, The Graham Norton Show, or its newer but no less brilliant The Sarah Millican Television Programme. Its programming presence on other channels is strategically terrific for ITV Studios, which has increased its output this year with new shows across the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky. I am really looking forward to having So as part of ITV Studios, working with Graham Stuart and his team to add even more value to this dynamic and successful production company.”
Kevin Lygo, Managing Director of ITV Studios, said, “So Television and Graham Norton have been making high quality programmes for many years now. I believe that ITV Studios can bring scale to their ambitions and together we can continue to keep The Graham Norton Show at the top of its game and increase the amount of new programming in their production slate. This is an important acquisition for ITV Studios and demonstrates our strategy to increase our capability in the production of high quality television entertainment programming.”
Graham Norton said, “So TV has been our baby for 12 years, so I’m thrilled that the ITV family has decided to take it under their wing and help it blossom.”
Graham Stuart said, "We are incredibly excited to be starting a new chapter in the So story with ITV Studios. Now we have the chance to achieve what we've always wanted to in this industry but with real strength and inspiration behind us.”
The first episode features Sarah talking about wildlife and dating programmes through meeting naturalist Chris Packham from Spring Watch and Sexpert Tracey Cox.
Future episodes will star: distinguished actor Simon Callow, fashion designer Julian MacDonald, sports television presenter Clare Balding and star of Downton Abbey Phyllis Logan.
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