Graham Norton
A Keeper
The Life and Loves of a He Devil: A Memoir
Ask Graham
Graham Norton's Big Apple
So me
Live at the Roundhouse
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Victorian London
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Holding
Forever Home: The New Dark Comedy from Bestselling Author Graham Norton
Home Stretch
The Graham Norton Effect
Children in Need
V Graham Norton
Adele at the BBC
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Carnal Knowledge
Would You Rather. . . ? with Graham Norton
I Could Never Be Your Woman
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?
I'd Do Anything
Any Dream Will Do
Bring Me the Head of Light Entertainment
The Bigger Picture with Graham Norton
The Generation Game
Rex the Runt
Let It Shine
Strictly Dance Fever
Making Your Mind Up
Totally Saturday
When Will I Be Famous?
Eurotrash
Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two
The South Bank Show
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
Comic Relief 2011
Comedy Connections
Over the Rainbow
The One and Only
100 Greatest
Eurovision Song Contest: Your Country Needs Blue
100 Greatest TV Moments
Children in Need 2018
Aristocrats
Children in Need 2017
Piers Morgan's Life Stories
The Geena Davis Show
Children in Need 2016
Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits
The British Academy Television Awards
Eurovision: Your Country Needs You
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Baftas 2016
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Graham William Walker, better known by his stage name Graham Norton, is an Irish comedian, actor, author, and television host known for his work in the UK.
Biography
Graham norton is an irish television presenter.Comedian.Actor.And writer.He was born on 4 april 1963 in clondalkin.Dublin.Ireland.He is ucrrently 57 yeasr old.He is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs around 75 kg.He has blue eyes and a slim body type.His zodiac sign is aries and his nationality is irish.Education and Career
Graham norton studied at the centrla school of speech and drama in london.He started his career as a stand-up comedian in the early 1990s.He then went on to become a television presenter.Hosting shows such as so graham onrton.The graham norton show.And have i got news for you.He has also appeared in films such as father ted and the graham norton effect.Family
Graham norton is the son of rhoda walker and billy walker.He has two siblings.A brother and a sister.He is not married and does not have any children.He is not known to have any other realtvies.Success
Graham norton is one of the most successful television presenters in the uk.He has won numerous awards.Including the bafta for best entertainment performance in 2005.He was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the university of east anglia in 2006.Most Important Event
The most important event in graham norton s career was hwen he was awarded the bafta for best entertainment performance in 2005.This was a major milestone in his career and cemented his status as one of the most successful television presenters in the uk.Two Doors Down move to BBC One 'well deserved'
... " Fans of the show include Graham Norton, Peter Capaldi, Zoe Ball and David Tennant...
David Tennant returns as Doctor Who for Children in Need
... The live show also featured an appearance from BBC Radio 2 presenter Vernon Kay, who There has also been a performance from Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock and a visit to Graham Norton s notorious Big Red Chair...
Lenny Rush set to become BBC Children in Need's first child presenter
... " This year s televised event will also include an exclusive behind the scenes look at the latest episode of Doctor Who, a performance from Little Mix star Leigh-Anne and a visit to Graham Norton s notorious Big Red Chair...
Happy Valley: Sarah Lancashire wins big at National Television Awards
... The Graham Norton show won the a new award for TV interview, beating Piers Morgan (who received a few boos from the audience), Louis Theroux and Chris and Rose Ramsey...
Michael Parkinson obituary: Setting the standard for TV talk shows
... But with or without his own show, Parkinson remained a frequent face on the small screen as he himself became a popular guest on shows such as This Morning, Loose Women, The Graham Norton Show and Piers Morgan s Life Stories...
Gary Lineker tops star salaries list in BBC annual report
... Claudia Winkleman and Graham Norton, who both make huge sums of money from hosting BBC programmes and have featured high up the list in previous years, are also both absent from the list because of the way they are paid...
Cha Cha Cha, Mel the milkmaid and other memorable Eurovision moments
... As Graham Norton remarked, the Serbian singer appeared to start his act from a " soap dish"...
Sweden wins Eurovision, but UK is second from last
... The contest was presented by Alesha Dixon, Hannah Waddingham and Ukrainian singer Julia Sanina, with Graham Norton joining them during the voting stage...
Michael Parkinson obituary: Setting the standard for TV talk shows
Michael Parkinson 's gentle but probing style set a standard for television chat shows that has rarely been equalled.
In a remarkable career, he interviewed some of The Most famous people in The World , including many of the Hollywood Stars he had idolised as a child.
His interviews always adhered to his own rigorous journalistic standards and he was insistent that his guest, not himself, should be The Star of The Show .
He was at His Best when he managed to winkle out sensitive details of a guest's life without appearing prurient.
He once famously defined a Chat Show as " an unnatural act between Consenting Adults in public".
Michael Parkinson was born on 28 March 1935 in the South Yorkshire village of Cudworth, The Son of a miner.
His father was a great believer in self-improvement and the young Parkinson was encouraged to go to The Local Working Men 's Club where he read copies of the Manchester Guardian, a paper for which he would later write.
Parkinson senior was also determined that young Michael would not follow him down The Pit . To that end he took his son down into one of the narrowest seams in Grimethorpe Colliery, an experience that made Parkinson determined to seek an alternative career.
As a child in The Days before television he used to go regularly to his local cinema, giving rise to a lifelong passion for film and its stars as well as a burning desire to marry Lauren Bacall .
Parkinson attended The Local primary school before Moving On to Barnsley Grammar School where he achieved just two O-Levels and discovered a talent for writing by providing essays for his class mates at half a shilling each.
He also learned to play cricket, developing an aptitude for The Game that saw him seriously consider becoming a professional.
While playing for Barnsley Cricket Club he attended trials for Yorkshire alongside The Future umpire Dickie Bird and a young batsman called Geoffrey Boycott .
His modest academic achievements were enough to allow him to get a job on a local newspaper, helping to collate sports results.
" Kidnapped"It was his National Service that finally got him out of The Village and opened his eyes to the wider World Beyond what he referred to as the " parochial" nature of his upbringing.
He had a successful stint in uniform, receiving a commission and becoming the youngest captain in the British Army , seeing action during the Suez Crisis .
His time as an officer also enabled him to move into social circles that might have remained closed to a young Yorkshire lad who left school at 16 and had never been to university.
After his return to civilian life he went to work for the Manchester Guardian which became simply, The Guardian , in 1959. In the same year Parkinson married Doncaster-born Mary Heneghan, to whom he had proposed on The Balcony of the Grand Hotel in Scarborough.
Parkinson left The Guardian and began working in London for the Daily Express while Mary, who was pregnant with their first child, remained in Manchester.
Parkinson later recalled getting a phone call from his father to say that he had " kidnapped" Mary and taken her Back Home in order to ensure that the couple's first child, which his father assumed would be a boy, would be born in Yorkshire and therefore qualify to play cricket for The County .
His move into television came when he was invited to a screen test by Granada, which was commissioning a new Current Affairs programme.
Parkinson later reflected that he had never thought of television as a career: " We had a contemptuous, bemused view of television at The Guardian in Those Days . We Believed it would go away. "
Intending to go, purely so he could write a cynical newspaper piece on the upstart new medium, he was quickly swept up in what he referred to as the " theatrical excitement" of the television studio.
CredibilityHe worked as a Current Affairs presenter and reporter for both Granada and The Bbc and, in 1969, presented a Late Night film review for Granada during which he did an interview with Laurence Olivier .
When Parkinson was recruited to present his eponymous show on Bbc One , The Corporation 's head of light entertainment, Bill Cotton , envisaged a variety programme along the lines of America's Ed Sullivan Show.
The Initial run of shows all opened with Parkinson, somewhat self-consciously perched on a stool, cracking topical jokes, as well as featuring a resident singer, Marion Montgomery . It wasn't until the third series that the programme took on its now familiar format.
The Show quickly became a success with audience-pulling appearances by Morecambe and Wise, and guests like Orson Welles giving it great credibility.
John Lennon , Michael Caine and Elton John were among the earliest people to appear on The Show and Parkinson also featured some of the Music Hall stars he had seen in his Home Town of Barnsley, such as Tessie O'Shea and Sandy Powell .
" We had a duty in a sense, to preserve this part of our culture. We were in danger of letting it pass by and remain only in The Memory of people who had seen them. That was The Unexpected bonus of The Show . "
The Show conjured a host of memorable appearances - notably a monosyllabic Meg Ryan , the wisecracking Muhammad Ali , dubbed by Parkinson as his favourite interviewee, and an assault by Rod Hull 's alter ego Emu, which had The Host sprawling out of his chair.
Plain speakingIn 1983 he became one of the so-called " Famous Five" presenters who launched the new ITV breakfast franchise TV-am, where he presented the Sunday Morning programme. However he, together with other big names, eventually departed after a very public row with The Station 's management.
In 1985 he took the helm at Radio 4 's Desert Island Discs, following the death of its creator, Roy Plomley . It was reported that Plomley's widow was unhappy with The Parkinson style and he handed over to Sue Lawley after just three years. He also had a spell as a presenter on Radio 2 .
He continued to appear on television presenting, among other things, ITV's Give Us a Clue, and the Bbc One programme, Going For a Song.
In 1998 his Chat Show returned to Bbc One , although his style of questioning had become less probing.
In 2003 he fell out with The Corporation 's management who wanted to move his programme from its regular Saturday Night slot in favour of Match of The Day . Parkinson took his show to ITV where he stayed until Hanging Up his hat as a mainstream Tv Interviewer in 2007.
He remained the plain-speaking Yorkshire man, causing something of a storm in 2009 when he described the recently deceased reality TV star, Jade Goody , as " A Woman who came to represent All That 's paltry and wretched About Britain today".
And, in an interview with the Radio Times , he bemoaned what he saw as the declining state of British TV, saying he was Fed Up with The Rise of celebrities hosting shows, ridiculously titled documentaries and property programmes.
Parkinson was created a Knight Bachelor in the 2008 New Year 's Honours.
At The End of his final Parkinson show he made a poignant reference to his father Jack, who died in 1975 following a battle with lung disease pneumoconiosis - caused by long-term retention of dust in the lungs.
Jack Parkinson had slightly Mixed Feelings about his son's chosen career, his son later revealed.
" Father loved coming to The Show but he was never sure his son was doing a proper job. 'You've made a bob or two without breaking sweat,' he once told me. 'But, think on. It's not like playing for Yorkshire, is it?'"
Michael Parkinson agreed: " Of course, it wasn't. But, once or twice, it got pretty damned close. "
The presenter suffered his own health problems in later life. He was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in 2013, from which he recovered after an operation and radiotherapy. He was also plagued with a back condition for 11 years for which he underwent spinal surgery in 2017.
Parkinson couldn't quite give up his interviewer status and hosted a series on Sky Arts called Michael Parkinson : Masterclass from 2012 to 2014, featuring guests such as Jamie Cullum , Michael Morpurgo , Carlos Acosta and Lang Lang .
But with or without his own show, Parkinson remained a frequent face on the small screen as he himself became a popular guest on shows such as This Morning , Loose Women , The Graham Norton Show and Piers Morgan 's Life Stories .
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