Editing Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (section)

==History==
From 2009 until the end, the programme was broadcast in [[high-definition television|high definition]] on [[BBC HD]]. Studio TC4 in the BBC Television Centre in London, where the show was made, was upgraded to HD, making it the third television studio in Television Centre to be upgraded to HD (the others being Studios TC1 and TC8).

The show was pulled by the [[BBC]] on 29 October 2008 when Ross and [[Russell Brand]] were both suspended from their TV and radio shows in the events after [[The Russell Brand Show prank calls|''The Russell Brand Show'' prank telephone calls row]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a134010/bbc-suspends-russell-brand-jonathan-ross.html |title=Broadcasting - News - BBC suspends Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross |website=Digital Spy |date=29 October 2008 |access-date=26 May 2009}}</ref> The show returned on 23 January 2009, attracting 5.1 million viewers.<ref name="entertainment1">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7849582.stm |title=Entertainment &#124; Ross TV return is watched by 5.1m |publisher=[[BBC]]|work=[[BBC News]] |date=2009-01-24 |access-date=2009-05-26}}</ref> The final 275th episode was broadcast on 16 July 2010.

On 12 June 2009, the show began airing in the United States on [[BBC America]] at 8pm [[Eastern Time Zone|EST]]. In 2010, it also started airing on the [[BBC UKTV|UKTV]] channel in Australia, just weeks after the episodes were first aired in the UK.

In June 2010, it was announced that Ross would be moving to [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] to host a new Saturday night chat show, ''[[The Jonathan Ross Show]]'', which started airing in September 2011.<ref name="ITVmove">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/jul/07/itv1-jonathan-ross-chat-show |title=ITV confirms Jonathan Ross chatshow deal |publisher=[[The Guardian]]|work=Mark Sweney |date=2020-04-28 |access-date=2010-07-07}}</ref>

The most frequent guests were [[Ricky Gervais]] and [[Jack Dee]] (eight episodes each), [[Eddie Izzard]] (seven episodes), and [[Jeremy Clarkson]] and [[Jimmy Carr]] (six episodes each). [[Johnny Vegas]], [[David Attenborough]], [[Stephen Fry]], [[Damon Albarn]] and [[Simon Pegg]] all appeared in five episodes, and [[Robbie Williams]] appeared in four episodes.