The Story of Light Entertainment Chat Shows (Season 1, Episode 7)
TV Episode | 90 min | Documentary

The Story of Light Entertainment

Chat Shows (Season 1, Episode 7)

TV Episode | 90 min | Documentary

The chat show is one of light entertainment's most successful and most enduring formats. This programme takes in everything from tearful celebs and transatlantic flights to fake guests and drunken brawls.

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Sep 2, 2006 (United Kingdom)

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47 cast members

Name	Known for
Stephen Fry Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Gosford Park (2001)
Kenton Allen Self Self See fewer	Him & Her (2010)
Malcolm Allsop Self Self See fewer	Sex Sells (2000)
Clive Anderson Self Self See fewer	Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1988)
Beatrice Ballard Self Self See fewer	Parkinson (1971)
John Bartlett Self Self See fewer	3-2-1 (1978)
Jeremy Beadle Self Self See fewer	Ultra Quiz (1983)
Nick Bullen Self Self See fewer	Masterpiece with Alan Titchmarsh (2016)
David Butcher Self Self See fewer	The Cult of... (2006)
Terry Christian Self Self See fewer	Membrane (1983)
Bill Cotton Self (as Sir Bill Cotton) Self (as Sir Bill Cotton) See fewer	Play Your Hunch (1961)
Barry Cryer Self Self See fewer	The Stanley Baxter Show (1963)
Andy Davies Self Self See fewer	Sunday Service (1997)
Simon Dee Self Self See fewer	The Italian Job (1969)
Lorna Dickinson Self Self See fewer	Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre (2013)
Greg Dyke Self Self See fewer	6 O'Clock Show (1982)
Colin Fay Self Self See fewer	Doctor Who (1963)
Vanessa Feltz Self Self See fewer	The All Star Impressions Show (2009)
David Frost Self (as Sir David Frost) Self (as Sir David Frost) See fewer	Retreat (I) (2011)
Wayne Garvie Self Self See fewer	Alex Rider (2020)
Trisha Goddard Self Self See fewer	Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Michael Grade Self Self See fewer	Kane & Abel (1985)
Chris Greenwood Self Self See fewer	Parkinson (1971)
Tom Gutteridge Self Self See fewer	The Hot Shoe Show (1983)
Richard Holloway Self Self See fewer	Britain's Got Talent (2007)
Clive James Self Self See fewer	Collins and Maconie's Movie Club (1997)
Joanna Jordan Self Self See fewer	Moore Street Masala (2009)
Peter Kessler Self Self See fewer	The Mrs. Merton Show (1995)
Katie Lander Self Self See fewer	Bank of Dave (2023)
Maurice Leonard Self Self See fewer	My Kind of Music (1998)
James Moir Self (as Jim Moir) Self (as Jim Moir) See fewer	The Beat Room (1964)
Graham Norton Self Self See fewer	Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
Michael Parkinson Self Self See fewer	Love Actually (2003)
Mark Radcliffe Self Self See fewer	God Help the Girl (2014)
Sally Jessy Raphael Self Self See fewer	The Addams Family (1991)
Joan Rivers Self Self See fewer	Spaceballs (1987)
Claudia Rosencrantz Self Self See fewer	The Dame Edna Experience (1987)
Phillip Schofield Self Self See fewer	Emmerdale Farm (1972)
Neil Shand Self Self See fewer	Carrott's Lib (1982)
Ned Sherrin Self Self See fewer	That Was the Week That Was (1962)
John Stapleton Self Self See fewer	Tickets for the Titanic (1987)
William G. Stewart Self Self See fewer	Paradise Island (1977)
Graham Stuart Self Self See fewer	The Graham Norton Show (2007)
Brian Tesler Self Self See fewer	The Benny Hill Show (1957)
Clive Tulloh Self Self See fewer	Ross Kemp on Gangs (2005)
Mark Wells Self Self See fewer	Videotech (1996)
Terry Wogan Self (as Sir Terry Wogan) Self (as Sir Terry Wogan) See fewer	Screen One (1985)