{"id":486561,"date":"2026-06-10T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/486561\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:16:09","slug":"madonna-to-join-graham-norton-for-rare-bbc-special-ahead-of-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/486561\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna to join Graham Norton for rare BBC special ahead of new album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madonna will join Graham Norton<\/a> for a special “in-depth discussion” on the BBC later this month, it has emerged. The programme will come ahead of the Queen of Pop’s fifteenth studio album, which lands in July.<\/p>\n

An official, previously unannounced listing on the BBC website<\/a> names the show Madonna & Graham, with the synopsis: “Graham meets with Madonna for an in-depth discussion about her incredible life and career.”<\/p>\n

Per the listing, the 49-minute one-off is set to air on Friday, 26 June 2026 at 10:40pm. Digital Spy has contacted the BBC for comment.<\/p>\n

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On social media, the popstar’s sizable fanbase has been getting very excited as word spreads, with one fan account on X<\/a> enthusing: “Madonna at Graham Norton Show! Cannot wait for this one.”<\/p>\n

Another simply declared<\/a>: “THE EUROPEAN PROMOTION HAS BEGUN!”<\/p>\n

Madonna & Graham will come just one week ahead of the musician’s new album Confessions II, the sequel to her iconic 2005 release Confessions on a Dance Floor, which spawned hits like ‘Hung Up’ and ‘Sorry’.<\/p>\n

The new record has been preceded by an accompanying short movie, Confessions II \u2013 The Film, which features the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Gwendoline Christie, Kate Moss, Richard E Grant and Honey Dijon.
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Related: Graham Norton defends Claudia Winkleman’s new chat show<\/a><\/p>\n

Directed by TORSO, it is built around the album’s first six songs and premiered last week at the Tribeca Festival. It was later shared on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Madonna has appeared on The Graham Norton Show multiple times in the past, most recently in 2019 to promote her last album, Madame X<\/a>. She is the best-selling female music artist of all time, having racked up twelve number one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, and 13 here on the UK’s Official Singles Chart. <\/p>\n

The Graham Norton Show is currently in hiatus, having wrapped up its most recent series in March of this year before the debut of The Claudia Winkleman Show. Since then, the broadcaster has made a cameo on Saturday Night Live UK and returned as the UK commentator for Eurovision. He also fronted new ITV reality show The Neighbourhood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Madonna & Graham airs on Friday, 26 June on BBC One.<\/p>\n

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Shaun is an Evening News Editor at Digital Spy, with over a decade of experience reporting on all things pop culture. He has written for outlets including Metro<\/a>, Attitude<\/a>, Huffington Post, The Mirror<\/a>, Yahoo!, Pink News and Express Online<\/a>, specialising in TV, movies, soaps, music and LGBTQ+ issues. He is also a BAFTA Rocliffe-winning scriptwriter, having written episodes of the soap Hollyoaks, the official Steps musical Here & Now<\/a> and multiple Offie Award-nominated plays. He studied English Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia, and will happily talk at length about Desperate Housewives to anyone who’ll listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madonna will join Graham Norton for a special “in-depth discussion” on the BBC later this month, it has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[137241,137294,635,225092,637,146,85,46,195853,636,409,225091],"class_list":["post-486561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-collection-the-graham-norton-show","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-a871eedb-8ceb-4e2d-b0ff-2e67efde4342","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-music","tag-shorttitle-madonna-to-join-graham-norton-for-rare-bbc-special"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}