Winkleman’s chat show will “welcome the biggest names from the worlds of film, television, music and beyond to her sofa for lively conversation with the help of a studio audience”, the BBC said.
“Claudia is a true national treasure – warm, witty and endlessly entertaining,” said the corporation’s head of entertainment commissioning, Kalpna Patel-Knight.
“She has an extraordinary ability to put people at ease and bring out the very best in them, whether they’re global superstars or members of the audience.”
So Television’s managing director, Graham Stuart, said Winkleman matched Norton’s ability to make the “Friday night talk show slot” a “dazzling appointment to view”.
“How can you possibly follow that? By booking a host equally as brilliant. So we have.”
The BBC said further details on the show and when it would be broadcast would be “announced in due course”.