• Air date: 05 Sep '08 8 episodes
      Friday Night with Jonathan Ross was a British comedy chat show presented by Jonathan Ross. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 2 November 2001. The programme featured Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band. The show began its final series in January 2010, and ended on 16 July 2010. The most frequent guests were Ricky Gervais and Jack Dee, Eddie Izzard, Jeremy Clarkson and Jimmy Carr. Johnny Vegas, David Attenborough, Stephen Fry and Simon Pegg all appeared in five episodes and Robbie Williams in four episodes. Since 2009 until its ending, the programme was broadcast in high-definition on BBC HD. Studio TC4 in the BBC Television Centre in London, where the show was made, was upgraded to HD, making it the third television studio in Television Centre to be upgraded to HD. The show was pulled by the BBC on 29 October 2008 when Ross and Russell Brand were both suspended from their TV and radio shows, in the...
  • List of Episodes (8)
    • 1. Kelly Brook, The Mighty Boosh, The Streets.

      05 Sep '08
      The show returns and presumably so will the smut, as Kelly Brook is amongst the first guests in this, the 15th series. The Mighty Boosh return with a song to sing and a big monkey, too. Jonathan also welcomes Britain's gold medal winners from Beijing, which will take longer to do than it will for an Australian chat show host to welcome back their winners. Music from the Streets.
    • 2. Steve Coogan, Abigail Clancy, Stevie Wonder.

      12 Sep '08
      In 1982, Stevie Wonder (with Sir Paul McCartney) sang: ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord, why don't we? Well, you could have been in the same country as each other when you shot the video for a start! Model, Abigail Clancy and Steve Coogan also appear.
    • 3. Cheryl Cole, Ben Stiller, Paul O'Grady, Iglu & Hartly

      19 Sep '08
      Starsky and Hutch and Dodgeball - just two films starring Ben Stiller which didn't trouble the Oscars. Fellow chat show host, Paul O'Grady, (who unlike Jonathan lets his guests answer a question before butting in) and X Factor judge Cheryl Cole return to the show.
    • 4. Jamie Oliver, Simon Pegg, Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Keane

      26 Sep '08
      For what seems like the 1,000th time, Lucas & Walliams cosy up to Jonathan to flog their cash cow Little Britain. Chef, Jamie Oliver and funny bloke Simon Pegg also appear.
    • 5. Faye Dunaway, Sir Michael Parkinson, Alan Carr, Bishi

      03 Oct '08
    • 6. Colin Farrell, Claudia Winkleman, Sir Roger Moore, The Kills.

      10 Oct '08
    • 7. Gordon Ramsey, Sarah Silverman, Ricky Gervais, Razorlight

      17 Oct '08
    • 8. Daniel Craig, Tony Curtis, Grace Jones, Girls Aloud

      24 Oct '08