The Graham Norton Show
Graham Stuart is the managing director and producer of the production company So Television, which he founded together with Graham Norton in the year 2000. For the past 22 years he has produced or been executive producer for 900 broadcasts with Graham Norton as presenter in both England and the USA . In 2007, the Graham Norton Show launched on the BBC, and has since become one of the world's most famous talk shows where top celebrities line up to be guests every single week.
In addition to the guests, the show offers an introduction to great bands, and stories told by people from the audience in the infamous Red Chair Game, in which people with stories that don't land are mercilessly kicked out of both the chair and the programme by the host himself.
What are the secrets that make this program work, week after week? How does one not run out of ideas after 900 broadcasts? This and much more will be discussed with the TV School's students when Graham Stuart visits the TV School on 30 January, and the students will have plenty of opportunity to ask questions themselves.
Ole Hedemann is a professor and teaches TV management at the TV School and he is looking forward to Monday's Masterclass.
"There is something to learn here for absolutely everyone at the TV School, whether you are an employee or a student, and regardless of which track you belong to. This is simply a rare opportunity to meet a brilliant professional who is also a genuinely nice guy."
Other projects
In addition to the Graham Norton Show Stuart has developed numerous other projects for for So Television: The Bigger Picture, School’s out, Sorry, I’ve got no Head, Memory Land and YearDot, to name a few. In 2012 So Television was sold to ITV Studios, in a deal estimated at around 200 million kroner. Before the unique collaboration between the two Grahams began, Stuart was the head of entertainment in United Film and Television Productions.