{"id":475147,"date":"2026-03-14T11:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475147\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:40:16","slug":"claudia-winklemans-new-chat-show-splits-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475147\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudia Winkleman’s new chat show splits critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Times’ Carol Midgley also felt the guests were “solidly amusing” and said that while Winkleman is not a comedian, “she is funny (she made a joke about breastfeeding her dog)”.<\/p>\n

“This is a job that is more difficult than it looks. Claudia, despite her self-mockery and nerves, put in a respectable first shift,” she wrote, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new show is produced by Graham Norton’s company So Television, which is also behind his own show.<\/p>\n

And online, fans have been inevitably comparing the two shows. One X user called Winkleman’s new show “a welcome contrast” to Norton’s, while another wrote there was “not that much different… but I love her anyway”.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the show airing, there had also been much speculation about how it would involve pre-selected members of the audience.<\/p>\n

In the end, we heard from a number of people in the crowd, including a man from Wolverhampton who recommended his city’s Nando’s, and a woman who designs pencils.<\/p>\n

In a three-star review, external<\/a> for the Metro, Rebecca Cook welcomed the audience engagement, writing: “In Winkleman’s world, the spectators are just as interesting as the sofa…. Some of these interactions struck better than others, but they offered a nice point of difference.”<\/p>\n

But the Guardian’s Mangan disagreed, saying audience participation “should have been outlawed generations ago. We are not a camera-ready nation and we never will be”.<\/p>\n

Throughout the show, Winkleman is characteristically self-deprecating, thanking her guests “for coming on the first and possibly last show”.<\/p>\n

Goldblum reassured her, promising that in the blink of an eye, we would fast forward decades into the future, where it would be “the longest-running show ever”.<\/p>\n

Will he be right? For now, it appears the jury is out.<\/p>\n

The first episode of The Claudia Winkleman Show is available now on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Times’ Carol Midgley also felt the guests were “solidly amusing” and said that while Winkleman is not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-475147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}