{"id":89629,"date":"2025-09-27T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/89629\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:49:09","slug":"the-graham-norton-show-star-studded-line-up-announced-for-first-show-of-the-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/89629\/","title":{"rendered":"The Graham Norton Show: Star-studded line-up announced for first show of the new season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Graham Norton Show will be back on our screens on Friday night with a brand new season and, as usual, this week’s guest list is packed full of A-listers\"HostGraham Norton during filming for The Graham Norton Show at BBC Studioworks 6 Television Centre, Wood Lane, London(Image: PA Archive\/PA Images)<\/p>\n

After a well-earned summer break, Graham Norton<\/a> will be back on our screens on Friday night as his hugely-popular BBC chat show returns for brand new season.<\/p>\n

As usual, the Irish presenter will be joined by a host of A-list stars on his famous red sofa, with the BBC revealing a star-studded line-up for Friday’s season premiere.<\/p>\n

Joining Graham this week is Hollywood stars Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson<\/a> and Emily Blunt, who star in the in true-life sports drama The Smashing Machine.<\/p>\n

Johnson has been tipped to land an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of MMA fighter Mark Kerr, who helped grow the sport’s popularity in its early days while battling trauma and drug addiction, with Blunt also earning rave reviews for her turn as Kerr’s longtime girlfriend, Dawn.<\/p>\n

They’ll be joined by Oscar-winning actor and writer Matthew McConaughey<\/a>, who will be chatting about his latest film The Lost Bus.<\/p>\n

Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Matthew McConaughey, James Norton and Raye with host Graham Norton during filming for the Graham Norton Show, at BBC Studioworks 6 Television Centre, Wood Lane, London, to be aired on BBC One on Friday evening<\/p>\n

The survival thriller stars McConaughey as a determined father who risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.<\/p>\n

Roduning out this week’s line-up is Happy Valley star James Norton<\/a>, who stars in Steven Knight’s new Dublin-set succession drama House of Guinness<\/a>, which was released on Netflix on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The new drama explores an epic story inspired by one of Europe\u2019s most famous and enduring dynasties \u2014 the Guinness family.<\/p>\n

Set in 19th-century Dublin and New York, the story begins immediately after the death of Sir Benjamin Guinness, the man responsible for the extraordinary success of the Guinness brewery, and the far-reaching impact of his will on the fate of his four adult children, Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Ben, as well as on a group of Dublin characters who work and interact with the phenomenon that is Guinness.<\/p>\n

There’s also live music and chat from singer-songwriter RAYE, performing her single Where Is My Husband!<\/p>\n

The Graham Norton Show air this Friday (September 26) at 10.40pm on BBC One.<\/p>\n

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