V Graham Norton

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V Graham Norton was an entertainment programme shown on Channel 4 in the UK starring Graham Norton, broadcast every weeknight as a successor to the weekly So Graham Norton. It premiered on 6 May 2002 and its last episode was aired on 26 December 2003^[1]. It featured celebrities who chatted with Graham and became involved in studio games which were usually laden with smut and sexual innuendo^{[citation needed]}.

The show featured a 'webcam', a roving television camera which was randomly situated in a different place in the UK each week (though often in Covent Garden) and which followed Graham's instructions and allowed him to interact with the public live.

The feature was made technically possible using digital microwave link technology provided by Rear window television with the 'spontaneous' webcam feature always produced as a full quality Outside Broadcast, before being made to look like a traditional webcam at the studios^{[citation needed]}.

The most often repeated (and voted as the show's funniest) moment involved Graham and Dustin Hoffman interacting live with a passenger (and later, the driver) of a London taxi cab driving through the city^{[citation needed]}.

V Graham Norton is available on 4oD through Virgin Media, but not through 4oD on a PC.