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Claudia Winkleman, pictured as she was guest-hosting an episode of ‘The Graham Norton Show’ in 2025. Photo: BBC/So Television/PA/Matt Crossick

Claudia Winkleman’s much-anticipated BBC One chat show starts on Friday, March 13, in the slot where Graham Norton usually resides and with Norton’s producer, Graham Stuart, in charge.

Imaginatively titled The Claudia Winkleman Show, it promises to feature “the biggest names from the worlds of film, television, music, and beyond”.