a massive shake-up to the schedule.<\/a><\/p>\nThe Traitors Final meant the show was pushed back until 11.15pm, meaning Graham didn\u2019t bid us farewell until gone midnight.<\/p>\n
Hands up who nodded off?!<\/p>\n
Graham is here once again to kick off the weekend in style tonight and thankfully, he isn\u2019t on so late. Read on to find out what time The Graham Norton Show starts and who is on.<\/p>\n
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Chris Hemsworth and Halle Berry are on The Graham Norton Show tonight (Credit: BBC)
\nThe Graham Norton Show: Who\u2019s on tonight?<\/p>\n
Graham welcomes yet more Hollywood royalty into the house tonight with Chris Hemsworth and Halle Berry popping in for a chat.<\/p>\n
The pair are starring in the new thriller Crime 101 and will be telling Graham all about it.<\/p>\n
Aussie actor Chris plays jewel thief Mike Davis in the movie, while Halle takes on the role of Sharon Colvin, an insurance broker.<\/p>\n
Chris tells Graham: \u201cIt is a throwback to the 70s, 80s and 90s heist movies that we all love, with a contemporary feel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are complex characters and a deep level of emotion, and it\u2019s\u2019 entertaining, sleek, sexy, and visually pretty stunning. It was the best script I had read in years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Halle describes her character as a person who \u201cstands up for all women in middle life\u201d.<\/p>\n
She adds: \u201cI think that has been a long time coming. Many women who are down the path of life like I am will feel very happy to be seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chris does his own stunts in the movie, which hits cinemas in February \u2013 and he loved every moment. He laughs: \u201cI am comfortable behind a wheel. It is intense and a huge risk, but I was like a kid in a candy shop.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Chris is in the studio, Graham also takes the opportunity to ask him about Avengers: Doomsday. The film is due out in December and Chris is reprising his role as Thor.<\/p>\n
\u201cThor is back, but what can I say without being removed from the movie?!\u201d he muses. \u201cEvery time I come back as Thor, I think, \u2018Where can we go from here?\u2019 But each time I have been blown away, and this one is no different. It\u2019s ginormous!\u201d<\/p>\n
Who else is on?<\/p>\n
Also jetting in from America to join The Graham Norton Show is Rachel McAdams.<\/p>\n
Rachel is also starring in a new movie and wants to tell Graham about it. It is a darkly comedic survival film called Send Help and she plays one of two lead characters, hers being called Linda Liddle.<\/p>\n
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Graham can\u2019t help but ask Rachel McAdams about Regina George (Credit: BBC)<\/p>\n
The flick sees Linda and her nightmare boss Bradley, played by Dylan O\u2019Brien, stranded together in the wilderness after their private jet goes down. Everyone else is killed on board.<\/p>\n
The film is directed by Sam Raimi and Rachel says: \u201cHe is so wonderful and such a kind and lovely man who makes dark demented films so I knew it would be a big reach!\u201d<\/p>\n
Graham can\u2019t help but ask Rachel about the film she\u2019s best known for; Mean Girls. Rachel played high school queen bee Regina George in the 2004 movie and the character has gone down in history.<\/p>\n
Rachel tells Graham: \u201cI didn\u2019t know how hated she would be and for how long.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first time I saw the film with an audience I was with my best friend. Everyone cheered when Regina was hit by a bus, but my friend stood up and screamed, \u2018Nooooo!’\u201d<\/p>\n
John Bishop and Jessie Ware<\/p>\n
Comedian John Bishop and singer Jessie Ware are representing the Brits tonight.<\/p>\n
John has been invited in to chat about Is This Thing On?. The film, which has just hit cinemas, is based on John\u2019s life and is directed by Hollywood A-lister Bradley Cooper.<\/p>\n
Graham asks John how it feels to have a potential blockbuster movie written about his life. He replies: \u201cIt\u2019s really weird and strange!\u201d<\/p>\n
John describes it as a \u201creally lovely film\u201d but admits he was too scared to ask Bradley if he could have a cameo. \u201cI don\u2019t think a film by Bradley Cooper is going to be made better by me being in it!\u201d he concludes.<\/p>\n
John also makes Graham and his fellow guests laugh when talking about the film\u2019s premiere. His grown-up sons warned him to look cool\u2019, but he reveals: \u201cThey all got the cool memo, and there I was grinning ear to ear!\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Jessie will be providing the music tonight. She will be performing her track I Could Get Used To This live in the studio, before joining Graham for a chat about her new album, Superbloom.<\/p>\n
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Graham is also joined by John Bishop and Jessie Ware tonight (Credit: BBC)
\nWhat time does The Graham Norton Show start tonight?<\/p>\n
The Graham Norton Show is back in its usual slot tonight (Friday January 30, 2026). Phew!<\/p>\n
The show stars at 10.40pm and runs for 50 minutes, with an end time of 11.30pm. You can also expect all the usual gags from Graham and a few audience members dishing out their embarrassing stories in his red chair.<\/p>\n
But will any of them make him laugh?<\/p>\n
Read more:\u00a0Forever Home on 5: \u2018Twisty\u2019 Graham Norton book about woman \u2018living with a killer\u2019 gets an all-star TV adaptation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe Graham Norton Show starts at 10.40pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Friday January 30, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graham has some great guests joining him in the studio tonight Jan 30 2026 The Graham Norton Show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3937],"tags":[193,77,37593,159366,382,16,15],"class_list":["post-731374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc-one","tag-entertainment","tag-graham-norton","tag-the-graham-norton-show","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115985473146567274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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