The Graham Norton Show
The chat show that puts every guest on the sofa at once, and ends by tipping a member of the public out of a chair.
One opening sequence is catalogued for The Graham Norton Show, covering season 1.
It arrived on BBC One in 2007, when A Question of Sport, Grandstand and Last of the Summer Wine were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
No usable clip placed. The programme's own titles do exist, the gold star on purple, but that design belongs to the BBC One years rather than the BBC Two series this entry is filed under, and no copy carries a date to place it by.
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