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Alan Carr: Chatty Man may have won the 2014 Royal Television Society Award for best entertainment performance, but there's no doubt that The Graham Norton Show is the one that attracts the best A-list guests.

Settling down on his sofa are Hollywood stars Russell Crowe (who indiscreetly voted Cate Blanchett the best on-screen kisser the last time he appeared on the show) and Cameron Diaz (who lassoed a fake cow - don't ask - but this time is probably plugging her relationship comedy The Other Woman).

Joining them are The Voice UK mentor Kylie Minogue and Richard Ayoade, whose new movie The Double has just opened.

It's a clash of the titans of TV entertainment as multi award-winning Graham Norton plays host to multi award-winning TV hosts Ant and Dec in the last hurrah of the current series. The cheeky banter will be on overload between a trio never lost for words, so will the rest of the guests - supermodel Naomi Campbell (right), Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul, The Fall's Jamie Dornan, soon to star in Fifty Shades of Grey, and Brit Award-winner Ellie Goulding - be able to get a word in edgeways?

His name is Cooper, Dominic Cooper... currently stirring things up on Sky Atlantic as Ian Fleming, the chap who gave birth to 007. The History Boys actor settles himself down in Norton's studio for a chat alongside the charmingly bonkers Miriam Margolyes, who's heading to Australia later this year with her one-woman show, I'll Eat You Last. And Lily Allen, still flying high from her Christmas success with Somewhere Only We Know, gives us a taste of her perky new song Air Balloon.

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The incomparable Miriam Margolyes has become a semi-regular on Graham's couch in recent years. It's easy to see why: charmingly eccentric and outrageous (the last time she was on she told a show-stealing story about "assisting" a sex-starved soldier up a tree in Edinburgh), she's one of those daffy English wits we thought we just didn't make any more.

Remember when the likes of Peter Ustinov and Kenneth Williams would frequently turn up on Parkinson and Wogan, not to plug anything in particular but just because they were always good value? Margolyes is one of the few remaining figures we have in that vein.

So, should fellow guests Lily Allen and Dominic Cooper fail to cut the mustard, Graham can always rely on his real star turn to pick up the slack.

The Graham Norton Show tops Friday ratings with 4.38m

The Graham Norton Show was Friday's (February 14) highest-rated show outside of soaps.

Two US actors and a stiff upper lip grace Norton's studio tonight as Matt Damon, Bill Murray and Hugh Bonneville drop in to give us the lowdown on their roles in George Clooney's The Monuments Men.

Quirky songbird Paloma Faith turns on the funk in the studio with her latest single, Can't Rely On You. If you can't wait until tonight, here's a rollicking live version doing the rounds online that was recorded in a kitchen, complete with backing singers and an acre of tartan.

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When you've clocked up as many great performances as Gary Oldman, you can afford a bit of silly stuff, and his new movie is silly with a cult twist. He stars in the remake of 1987's cyborg sci-fi RoboCop as Dr Dennett Norton, the creator of the freaky man-machine with a nipped-in waist and a surprising fondness for free will. In common with many of Oldman's characters, Dr Norton looks like he smells of old coffee - a nice match with Nick Frost, whose role as tubby wannabe Latin dancer Bruce in new British romcom Cuban Fury seems to be powered mainly by iced buns.

Graham Norton will bring them together in a frenzy of near-the-knuckle jokes and slyly clever questions. He'd do well, though, to avoid the subject of the one role they (almost) have in common: the antihero of Martin Amis's Money, John Self, who eluded Oldman but came to Frost with pretty dire results.

Hollywood comes to Graham Norton's sofa as Matthew McConaughey - Golden Globe-winning star of the Oscar-nominated Dallas Buyers Club - joins Julianne Moore, whose new action thriller, Non-Stop, touches down in Britain at the end of next month. There's also a US vibe to the music with Sheryl Crow, while keeping the Union flag flying is Alan Davies, whose comedy career takes a quite interesting sporty turn this time next week when he hosts a Winter Olympics chatty guest show.

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It's not long ago that Matthew McConaughey had become a byword for lightweight romantic comedies and going shirtless at every opportunity. But the role that recently won him a Golden Globe was lightweight in the literal sense: McConaughey shed three stone to play a rodeo cowboy dying of AIDS in The Dallas Buyer's Club.

The award put the icing on a remarkable return to the Hollywood A-list and tonight he discusses his comeback with Graham Norton while Alan Davies provides comedy cover and Sheryl Crow provides music.

An abundance of Ks grace Norton's studio tonight as Kenneth Branagh and Keira Knightley drop by to big up their new action-thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Lee Mack gets his beak in about his new show Duck Quacks Don't Echo, while Katy B provides the music. Former Gunner Thierry Henry also dribbles by for a chat and although his name is K-free he is at least a striker. Let's hope the red chair cranks out a Kevin or a Kirsty.