[JMT1985]

The Graham Norton Show started to lose it's edgy feeling around a decade ago - once the show started to get a lot of American audiences watching, Graham started to drop his topical monologue at the top of the show, now he barely does two minutes at the top of the show - all of the phone calls he used to make, or making use of webcams, or the rude bits he used to do are all now gone. He doesn't bother to go into the audience for games. It does feel he is has cut it down to the bare bones of a talk show format.

As said before, Graham is now older, and he probably feels it is better to just concentrate on the interviews - the big stars all love appearing on there, as he is a very relaxed interviewer, and will never go into areas his guests will feel awkward about, he said so in previous interviews that his job is not a "gotcha" style interview, to get a scoop.

The 10.40pm slot is also now the graveyard slot - back when Jonathan Ross was king of the 10.35pm slot, he could bring in 4 to 6 million viewers - now, 14 years after Graham took over Jonathan's Friday slot, that figure will never be reached again. I think Graham's show averages around the 2 million mark.