The face of BBC on Friday night will continue to be a very familiar one, on both sides of the pond.
Graham Norton has been tapped to take over the BBC1 time slot currently held by “Friday Night With Jonathan Ross,” which ends its run on Friday.
“In all likelihood, when [Norton's] show returns later in the year it will play in the Friday night slot,” a BBC spokesperson told The Independent.
Ross was signed to front a new chatshow on ITV late next year after a very public falling out with the BBC over a phone call made by himself and Russell Brand on Wossy’s now-former Radio 2 show. Norton will also be taking over the time slot for that show.
Since the move of “The Graham Norton Show” is not expected to happen until October, “Would I Lie To You?” will premiere its fourth series next Friday night (ed: this means that David Mitchell will be on the radio and telly at least three times a week for awhile, which makes the writer very happy, but that’s probably for another column.) “Live In The Apollo” will also fill in until Norton’s move.
Since both Norton and Ross have been a big part of BBC America’s weekend primetime programming, this still means that they will have a slot to fill.
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