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EXCLUSIVE: The BBC’s astir celebrated fringe is coming to a sofa adjacent you.
Deadline tin uncover that nan long-rumored The Claudia Winkleman Show has been officially commissioned and will motorboat adjacent spring. The news comes 3 days earlier nan 4th play of nan Winkleman-hosted The Traitors launches.
Winkleman, who is enjoying rather nan purple spot aft a 30-year career, will beforehand nan seven-episode Saturday nighttime BBC talk show that will “welcome nan biggest names from nan worlds of film, television, euphony and beyond to her sofa for lively speech pinch nan thief of a workplace audience,” nan BBC said. Broadcast accusation and guests will beryllium revealed “in owed course.”
The Claudia Winkleman Show will debut connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer successful outpouring 2026. We revealed that nan long-gestating chat show was being produced by The Graham Norton Show shaper So Television and Little Arrow successful October. Those plans, we understand, will spot Winkleman’s bid broadcast when The Graham Norton Show is off-air successful nan spring, meaning location will beryllium nary clashes betwixt nan shows and they will not beryllium competing for guests. The BBC precocious renewed The Graham Norton Show for different 3 years, while its caller tally of episodes has boasted eye-catching bookings including Taylor Swift. Winkleman earned her chat show stripes by stepping successful for Norton earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile nan Irish presenter was connected a break from his BBC duties. ITV Studios-backed So Television has made much than 550 episodes of his Friday nighttime talk show since 2007.
“Claudia is simply a existent nationalist wealth – warm, witty and endlessly entertaining,” said BBC commissioning editor Kalpna Patel-Knight. “She has an bonzer expertise to put group astatine easiness and bring retired nan very champion successful them, whether they’re world superstars aliases members of nan audience.”
Winkleman’s prima has soared since hosting nan first play of The Traitors in 2022 and its personage spin-off respective weeks back. She besides fronts Channel 4’s The Piano, while she presented BBC Radio 2’s Saturday greeting meal show until past year. She will person much clip connected her hands, however, now that she has presented her last section of Strictly Come Dancing, nan BBC Saturday nighttime juggernaut that she has fronted pinch Tess Daly since 2010.
The latest civilian play of The Traitors is group to motorboat connected New Year’s Day (January 1, 2026). Winkleman has been successful nan property overnight teasing “truly extraordinary” twists and “hardcore” information tables for nan execution enigma reality series, pinch a red-cloaked fig keeping fans guessing.
Winkleman said: “I can’t rather judge it and I’m incredibly grateful to nan BBC for this astonishing opportunity. I’m evidently going to beryllium awful, that goes without saying, but I’m complete nan satellite they’re letting maine try.”
So Television Managing Director Graham Stuart added: “Graham Norton has made nan Friday nighttime talk show slot a dazzling assignment to view. How tin you perchance travel that? By booking a big arsenic as brilliant. So we have.”
So Television’s co-production partner connected Winkleman’s chat show, Little Arrow, is nan guidance and accumulation institution launched by Winkleman’s agent, Holly Bott, successful July 2024. The institution has nan backing of Operation Mincemeat shaper Archery Pictures, nan play accumulation location that Winkleman’s husband, Kris Thykier, leads arsenic CEO.
Executive producers connected The Claudia Winkleman Show are Stuart and Ruth Phillips. Patel-Knight, Head of Entertainment Commissioning astatine nan BBC, commissioned and nan commissioning editor is Neil McCallum. ITV Studios is trading The Claudia Winkleman Show astir nan world.
