Graham Norton

It takes an awful lot to make you pine for Jim Davidson, but Graham Norton damn near managed it with Generation Fame. Perhaps the most frustrating thing about this whole dismal exercise was that you knew exactly what it was going to be like beforehand, and yet the Generation Fame still had enough goodwill in the tank to make you give it a go.

It's clearly time to put Norton to bed now. Sure, he'd be a great dinner-party guest - but would you want him in your house every sodding night of the week?

And so we say farewell to The Jack Docherty Show, one of the two things I watch on Channel 5. Docherty says it will be replaced by Titty O'Tits Big World of Tits, which sounds all too likely. Cheap, cheerful and late-at-night, it could take more risks than your average chat show. Sometimes they worked. Sometimes not. Docherty once went on holiday, leaving the unknown Graham Norton in charge .

It was Norton who won Best Newcomer in the British Comedy Awards. That was probably Docherty's best ever joke.

The ego has landed in it

If only the host of So Graham Norton (C4) had received a visit from an RSPCA vet three years ago, then he could have been painlessly put to sleep in the early stages of his disease. Instead, he's now spending each Friday night painfully putting his entire audience to sleep, with a personality so relentlessly self-obsessed and extrovert that he makes Bonnie Langford seem like a recluse.