I tend to watch Norton dependent on the guests, but he's been doing it for many years now, so he's pretty good at it, even if he's never going to make anyone's life uncomfortable.
I've mentioned it before, but if you want to hear a discussion about British chat shows, then you can hear Norton explaining his philosophy. and how he manages multiple guests in this episode of The Media Show from a year ago: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vr5j2 In essence, they try to plan it out carefully so that he has commonalities between guests, and that does take a bit of time and effort - something that's much harder to do if you've got five shows a week. What I do find interesting are the guest booking "politics" of the show. Because in the UK there are really only his show and Jonathan Ross's Saturday night show on ITV*, each of which only airs once a week, all the A-listers have to be squeezed into either show. Norton's show is bigger so it's the most desirable. That does mean especially towards the end of the year as you can't move for awards-friendly films, they are spoilt for choice. The couch can have three or more guests, each of which ordinarily would be enough star-power for any one other show. That does sometimes mean that stars don't actually all come out together, and they do two "batches." I can only imagine the behind-the-scenes guest-wrangling about who comes out with who and when. Only very occassionally is a guest genuinely late arriving at the studio because they've crossed London from a West End premiere to the studios - it's less than a mile from Leicester Sq where most films premiere in London, to the London Studios where Norton is recorded. Doug, the older actress from this week was Miriam Margolyes, who's defining characteristic seems to be telling outrageous stories as an older woman (she's a character actress as much as anything, although I think she's had one-woman shows). Personally I find her irritating in the extreme. Adam * Strictly speaking there are other shows of course including the breakfast TV shows, the One Show (hard for me to describe...) and Alan Carr on Channel 4 for the slightly more downmarket guest. On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 5:55 AM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I find that Norton handles the multiple guest interview scenarios much > better than Mr. Corden, though Norton has certainly had a lot more > experience at it. (I also find Norton much more subtle in buttering up his > guests, but YMMV.) > > I have to infer a lot during his monologues, but about as much as I do for > some episodes of Top Gear. > BBC America carries it here, but there appears to be some notable delay > between airdates in the UK and the US. For instance, the 'New Year's Eve' > show just aired here in the States, and no new episodes appear to be > scheduled for the next couple of weeks. > > David > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Doug Eastick <east...@mcd.on.ca> > *To:* tvornottv@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Thursday, January 21, 2016 12:32 AM > *Subject:* [TV orNotTV] Graham Norton show > > Unsure who else watches the show, but I started downloading it the part > few months and watching it on YouTube. > > If you are into talk shows , add Graham Norton Show to your YouTube > subscription list. > > Topics this week included Matthew Perry talking about the friends get > together for Jim burrows. An older actress had a great story of why she > never watched Friends. > > > My $0.02 > > > > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
