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The BBC has announced that the Friday night slot left vacant by the departing Jonathan Ross will be taken by Graham Norton.

A spokesperson for the broadcaster has said that Norton will be moved to the primetime Friday slot but that his show will not take up the Friday Night with... branding.

"In all likelihood, when his show returns later in the year it will play in the Friday night slot," the BBC said.

Jonathan Ross wrapped up his talk show on Friday, with the final episode.

David Beckham joins Jonathan Ross for the final Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One.

On this, his last show, Jonathan says: "I promised Morrissey I wasn't going to cry."

Then goes on to say: "I should start by saying thank you to all the guests we've had on over the 10 years we've been doing the show – at least 95 per cent of them were great!

"It's been a remarkable period of my TV career, being here at the BBC – I've worked with just about the best crew and I hope you all know how much it's meant to me to have you guys here because I've felt supported... you're just the best people [in the business].

"Everyone here at the BBC has always been terrific... I've been lucky to work over the 10 years with the most fabulous teams.

"The experience I've had here at the BBC has been a blessed one.

Footballing superstar David Beckham has been confirmed to appear on the final ever episode of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.

The BBC One talk show has announced the injured English footballer will feature alongside actor Jackie Chan and band Roxie Music on the final show in July.

The show is expected to break from the usual three guest format in order to provide more time for Ross to speak to Beckham regarding the recent English exit from the World Cup.

Hollywood star Tom Hanks joins Jonathan Ross this week on his BBC One show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross.

Tom confesses he's a big Loose Women fan: "Angels And Demons – the new name for Loose Women! They're the type I was too shy to approach."

And those Loose Women also join Jonathan on the couch. Carol McGiffin talks about her toyboy: "I'm going backwards, I think I'm ten years younger than I actually am," but fellow host Coleen Nolan doesn't approve: "an older woman going out with someone they could have given birth to!"

Jonathan Ross has promised to be "more aware in future" during filming on his first day back at work at the BBC.

Today, filming began for the return of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, which was taken off-air following his suspension after the Andrew Sachs answerphone scandal. Ross and fellow BBC2 radio presenter Russell Brand left inappropriate messages on Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs's answerphone. These messages were then broadcast in Brand's show. A few complaints had been made following the broadcast, but due to media coverage of the messages, the complaints increased to thousands.

300 people have turned up for the filming of the show today, which will be shown Friday night on BBC1. Guests on the show include Tom Cruise, Stephen Fry, and group Franz Ferdinand.

UK actor and heart throb Daniel Craig – aka 007 – makes a rare chat show appearance when he visits the Ross sofa next month on BBC One show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross.

Craig – who took up the big screen's action hero mantle last year – became the sixth James Bond when he debuted in the role in Casino Royale, hailed by many as the best Bond of them all, and voted Sexiest Man On The Planet by his legions of fans.

Before he returns to more action in the next Bond movie, Craig stars in upcoming fantasy film The Golden Compass, released in the UK in December.

Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, Friday 23 November 2007, 10.35pm, BBC One

Shilpa Shetty tells Jonathan Ross she's not watching Big Brother now when she joins him for Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One tonight.

"I don't watch it now, I'm too busy," says the winner of this year's now infamous Celebrity Big Brother. She also talks about how her experience changed her life.

"I wasn't thinking," she says about her decision to take part, "I hadn't seen Big Brother. I'd never been through anything like that, I knew it would be a culture shock ... they psyche you out before you go into the house, it was unnerving for me.

"It was a complete reality check, I've been really pampered, I've never had the opportunity to do stuff other normal girls do.

"There isn't a second that I regret [because of] the sheer fact the show worked as a catalyst and brought about an awareness of racism ... people didn't know how to broach the issue ... it was a complete mind game, inside [the house] we didn't have an overall perspective.

"I didn't take it too seriously, we had some really fun moments as well."

Jonathan Ross concludes the current season of his multi-award-winning BBC One show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross with a rare and exclusive interview with JK Rowling.

The one-woman publishing phenomenon and author of iconic literary creation Harry Potter appears on Friday 6 July at 10.35pm.

The seventh and final Harry Potter book – Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – goes on sale in the English language worldwide on 21 July 2007.

Its predecessor, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, was the fastest-selling book ever, selling more than two million copies in the UK alone within 24 hours of its publication. The Harry Potter series has sold over 325 million copies worldwide.

Other guests for the show are to be announced.

Friday Night With Jonathan Ross returns for a new series in September 2007.

A HotsauceTV/Open Mike production for BBC One.

Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, Friday 6 July 2007, 10.35pm, BBC One

Everyone's favourite rocker Ozzy Osbourne makes a welcome return visit to BBC One's Friday Night With Jonathan Ross tonight.

Ozzy reminisces about his podbike accident which happened just days after his last appearance on the show: "I can't remember what happened, my heart stopped twice, the first thing I remember was seven days later – but I was only going at three miles an hour! I always used to say I'm going to die by the time I'm 40, I always thought something like that would happen to me."

He also talks about the effect on his family of their TV fame: "Overnight they (Jack and Kelly) were celebrities and didn't know how to handle it. [Now] Jack's great, he goes round and lectures in schools, tells them his story, young people can relate to him.

"At the beginning [the TV show] was great fun but then it got really tiring. You'd get a creepy feeling there was a camera around you all the time even when there wasn't."

He also talks about the burglary at their Buckinghamshire mansion: "I sleepwalk a lot, I was naked, there was this guy bent down. I thought 'am I dreaming?' Like a fool I ran at him and then thought 'now what', so I just let him go, but then you go around checking everything 15 times."

Friday Night Fever – John Travolta dances with Ricky Gervais
Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, 10.40 pm, Friday 30 March 2007, BBC One

Hollywood superstar John Travolta flies himself in to re-live his Oscar-nominated success in the legendary Saturday Night Fever with Jonathan Ross on this week's Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One.

After sharing the Ross sofa with Ricky Gervais on tonight's show he's offered a guest-starring role in Ricky's final-ever episode of Extras, and says: "I'll probably do anything Ricky Gervais says."

And they bonded by sharing a disco moment, with John reprising his Seventies dance moves and Ricky revamping his equally iconic sequence from The Office.

Travolta, whose latest blockbuster Wild Hogs opens in the UK on 13 April, also talks about his love of flying: "I can live on my plane, I love acting first and flying just happens to be another passion for me."

On how he wanted to be James Bond, he says: "I wanted to do James Bond but the new guy is awesome, the one I've liked the most since Sean Connery".

The season finale of Friday Night With Jonathan Ross has an exclusive interview with Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond.

Some quotes from the interview:

"I was driving and then it was two weeks later and I was in Leeds. There was a sense of oh bugger. Apparently I was awake on the way to the helicopter and I got a bit fight-y, I wanted to do a piece to camera, but my eyes were pointing in different directions. I have no recollection of that, or the first few weeks." "[When in a coma] I sort of heard stuff going on but I wasn't in it for very long."

"I had a slight scab on my shin, and that was it. All the damage was to my brain. I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury. In hospital I was completely useless. I'd look at the menu and order my favourite, cottage pie. Five minutes later it arrived and I said that's great, it's my favourite, how did you know?"

"There was a point when I couldn't daydream. It was very frightening, very strange. You're warned about things like personality change – but how would I know?!"