Season 13
Graham Norton, the multi-award winning comedian and host, presents his talk show based on the people, trends, stories and aspects of celebrity culture that interest him most.
He's entertaining the masses with everything you won't see on the news from celebrity guests' anecdotes and sillier stories buzzing in the ether to the unique quirks and obsessions of his audience.
Expect trademark Norton comedy monologues, celeb chat, eccentric stories/characters and some good old-fashioned home-grown weirdness.
This season features the usual eclectic mix of film and television actors, comedians and musicians, including Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Gerard Butler, Paramore, Amanda Holden, Jack Dee, Michael Buble, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mo Farah, Lee Mack, Lewis Hamilton, Pedro Almodovar, Dara Ó Briain and Alison Moyet.
And as always, expect Norton's trademark comedy monologues and eccentric stories.
The show is truly based on the people, trends, stories, and aspects of celebrity culture that interest Graham Norton most. Great guests, great stories, great characters. All this... and Graham Norton, too.
Welcome to Graham's world.
On his first show of the new season, Graham welcomes Hollywood megastar Tom Cruise, Tom's co-star Olga Kurylenko, Scottish heartthrob Gerard Butler and American rock band Paramore.
The show kicks off with an unexpected surprise for Graham as Tom presents him with a 50th birthday present – a Mariachi band performing Happy Birthday and, as an added bonus, the song made famous by Tom in Top Gun, You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling.
Talking about his new movie Oblivion, Tom reveals a stunt with Olga didn't quite go to plan. "We are on a motorbike with a helicopter chasing us and I say to her, 'no matter what happens, just hold on to me and I will get us out of trouble,' and she keeps saying, 'Don't go too fast, don't go too fast.'
"Of course we are going really fast, we hit a jump and we go up in the air, her hands come off and she is pushing me down and now I am terrified as we are going 70 miles an hour and I am shouting at her, 'You are not helping, you are going to kill us!'"
Tom reveals he was injured making Jack Reacher. "My foot got quite swollen, it was the worst injury I have had on a movie. I got it from kicking a guy in the balls. I had to kick him so many times I injured my ankle."
Asked how the other guy fared, he says, "I don't know, I didn't ask him!"
Confirming there will be a 5th Mission Impossible film, Tom says, "I am working on the story." Asked if it is physically harder making the movies now than when he first started, he says, "Not yet. Nothing is falling off yet," and referring to being 30 when the first movie came out, 50 year old Tom says, "I still feel as good."
Gerard talks about doing his own stunts, revealing, "It's dangerous. People don't realise. I love to sing, which has nothing to do with stunts, but last year I noticed I couldn't hit my high notes and had to have an MRI and the radiologist said, 'what have you been up to? You've broken two bones in your neck.'
"I'd just finished eight different fight sequences for days at a time."
Gerard talking about an obsessive fan, say, "I was at an airport and went to the toilet. I was at the urinals and this guy walks in and I notice he is standing a bit too close and I'm deliberately not looking at him and he suddenly shouts, 'This is Sparta.' I don't go into public toilets now!"
Revealing an unlikely love of cabbage, Olga says, "My mother made me eat it and I ended up loving it, mainly because she told me it would enhance my anatomy, but it didn't work to the extent I was promised." Indicating her bust, she adds, "I had higher hopes!"
Talking about being honoured in her hometown in Ukraine and asked whether it is true a street has been named after her, she says, "I heard about it but I am not sure if they actually did it. I don't know but it's quite funny."
Paramore performs Still Into You live in the studio before joining Graham for a chat.
Tom delights an unsuspecting fan with a special mobile phone call and then helps Graham pulls the lever on more foolhardy members of the audience brave enough to sit in the red chair.