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telethon to the BBC’s musical theatre talent searches like Over The Rainbow and Any Dream Will Do, his first live broadcast was on the oft-forgotten, short-livedThe show was Graham’s first project with the BBC after they poached him from Channel 4, where he’d had big success with his talk shows V Graham Norton and So Graham Norton .“So we’re standing in the studio, waiting to go live, the audience are there, the dancers are primed, and suddenly there’s a newsflash – the Pope had died.
“And then, they go, ‘no, there will be applause, but no cheering’. ‘OK’. ‘When you read the opening thing, emphasise the tension of the competition, but not the excitement’... anyway, what they forgot was that when the newsflash ended, it goes to a black screen… and then that merged into our opening credits.
“It was like I just said to the nation, ‘yeah, the Pope’s dead… who cares! Let’s dance!’,” he quipped. Graham, of course, is now best known as the host of his own Friday night talk show, which has now been running on the BBC for almost 20 years.Graham Norton Lines Up This Epic Replacement To Fill In For Him On His Talk Show Next Month
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