Gay British TV presenter Alan Carr is about to be discovered by a whole new Australian audience once his interview show Chatty Man starts on ABC2 on Thursday January 12.
The comedian first became well known to the British public alongside Justin Lee Collins as hosts of the variety program The Friday Night Project. When that show ended in 2008 Carr launched his solo chat program. Unlike other chat programs like Parkinson and The Graham Norton Show Carr only talks to one celebrity at a time and they depart before the next guest is brought on.
The ABC will play the most recent series of the show which aired in the UK last October. Guest on the first episode are former Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger, actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who talk about their roles in The Adventures of Tintin and Matt Cardle, the winner of the recent UK series of X-Factor. In coming weeks guest will include David Walliams, Kelly Rowland, Lady Gaga and the recently reformed band Steps.
The program has been incredibly popular in the United Kingdom and Carr recently signed a four million pound deal with Channel 4 for four more seasons of the program, a deal that will keep the show on the air until 2014.
Both The Friday Night Project and previous series of Chatty Man have aired in Australia on Foxtel, but this will be Carr’s first regular appearance on free to air television.
OIP Staff
