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Davina was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 talk show originally hosted by Davina McCall
Davina McCall

Davina Lucy Pascale McCall is an Great Britain actress and television presenter, most notable for her work on Channel 4's Big Brother UK reality TV series....
. At the end of 2005, the BBC announced that Davina McCall
Davina McCall

Davina Lucy Pascale McCall is an Great Britain actress and television presenter, most notable for her work on Channel 4's Big Brother UK reality TV series....
 would have her own talk show, Davina.

It first aired on BBC1 on 15 February 2006, however, the show ended on 12 April 2006 at the end of its first series due to low ratings. One show attracted fewer than 2.3 million viewers, when it was moved to 7pm.

guests for the series were:

is a table displaying the averages of each show for the chatshow, which aired on BBC1.






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Davina was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 talk show originally hosted by Davina McCall
Davina McCall

Davina Lucy Pascale McCall is an Great Britain actress and television presenter, most notable for her work on Channel 4's Big Brother UK reality TV series....
. At the end of 2005, the BBC announced that Davina McCall
Davina McCall

Davina Lucy Pascale McCall is an Great Britain actress and television presenter, most notable for her work on Channel 4's Big Brother UK reality TV series....
 would have her own talk show, Davina.

It first aired on BBC1 on 15 February 2006, however, the show ended on 12 April 2006 at the end of its first series due to low ratings. One show attracted fewer than 2.3 million viewers, when it was moved to 7pm.

Guests

The guests for the series were:
Episode Air Date Guests Musical Guests
1 15 February 2006 Max Beesley
Max Beesley

Maxton Gig Beesley Jr. is an England actor and musician, whose stage name is Max Beesley.He is probably best known for his role as Charlie Edwards in the United Kingdom TV drama Hotel Babylon based on the book of the same name....
, Julian Clary
Julian Clary

Julian Clary is an England comedian and novelist, known for his deliberately stereotypical camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre....
, Vernon Kay
Vernon Kay

Vernon Charles Kay is a United Kingdom television presenter, DJ and former model from Bolton, Lancashire, England. He began TV presenting on the BBC children's show FBi, a spin-off of Fully Booked....
, Tess Daly
Tess Daly

Helen Elizabeth Tess Daly , is a British television presenter, and is married to the presenter Vernon Kay....
Charlotte Church
Charlotte Church

Charlotte Idris Church is a Wales singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in childhood as a European classical music before branching into pop music in 2005....
 and KT Tunstall
KT Tunstall

'Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall' is a Scotland singer-songwriter and guitarist. She broke into the public eye with a live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later......
2 22 February 2006 Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brendan Brosnan, Order of the British Empire is an Republic of Ireland actor, film producer and environmentalist, who holds both Ireland and United States citizenship....
, Patrick Kielty
Patrick Kielty

Patrick Kielty is a Northern Irish comedian and television personality. He was born in Dundrum, County Down, Northern Ireland.Background...
, Martin Shaw
Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw England actor.BackgroundShaw is the elder of two sons of an engineer. His mother was a competition standard ballroom dancer....
Westlife
Westlife

Westlife is an Irish pop band that was formed on July 3, 1998.The group's original lineup comprised Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden....
 and Corrine Bailey Rae
3 1 March 2006 Gloria Hunniford
Gloria Hunniford

Gloria Hunniford is a TV and radio presenter, and formerly a singer. She is the mother of Caron Keating who died of breast cancer in 2004....
, Zoe Lucker, Neil Morrissey
Neil Morrissey

Neil Anthony Morrissey is an England actor. His most famous roles include Rocky in Boon ; Tony in Men Behaving Badly; the voice of Bob the Builder and playing Eddie Lawson in Waterloo Road....
, Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay

Gordon James Ramsay, Order of the British Empire, is a chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded a total of 14 Michelin Guide#Michelin stars and other ratings, and in 2007 became one of only three chefs in the United Kingdom to hold three Michelin stars at one time....
Sugababes
Sugababes

Sugababes are a BRIT Award-winning pop music group based in London, UK. The group consists of Keisha Buchanan, Heidi Range, and Amelle Berrabah....
 and Orson
Orson

Orson may refer to:...
4 8 March 2006 Ed Byrne
Ed Byrne

Ed Byrne is a Perrier Award-nominated, Ireland stand up comedian and voice over artist. He has presented television shows Uncut! Best Unseen Ads and Just For Laughs, and is a regular guest on various television panel games....
, Katie Price, Eamonn Holmes
Eamonn Holmes

Eamonn Reginald Holmes is an Irish people television and radio presenter based in England. His prolific presenting across many programmes and channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland and hectic schedule was often parodied in the media to the extent that he was said to hold a monopoly....
Girls Aloud
Girls Aloud

Girls Aloud are a British girl group that were created on the ITV1 talent show Popstars in 2002. The group, consisting of Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh, have been successful in achieving a string of 20 consecutive UK Top 10 singles , two UK number one albums, and having been nominated for fo...
 and Vittorio Grigolo
Vittorio Grigolo

Vittorio Grigolo is an Italian singer.Grigolo was born in Arezzo, but raised in Rome.He began singing by the age of four. When he was nine years old he accompanied his mother to have her eyes tested and, hearing someone singing from another room, he spontaneously began his own rendition of "Ave Maria." The singer, the optician's father, w...
5 15 March 2006 Michelle Collins
Michelle Collins

Michelle A. Collins is a United Kingdom actor best known for her roles on television in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, as Cindy Beale, and BBC dramas Sunburn and Two Thousand Acres of Sky....
, Alistair McGowan
Alistair McGowan

Alistair McGowan is an England Impressionist , comedian and actor. McGowan is best known for his work with Ronni Ancona on The Big Impression , which spawned his culturally popular impressions of David Beckham, Sven-G?ran Eriksson, Gary Lineker, Nicky Campbell, Richard Madeley, Tony Blair, Ross Geller and Dot Cotton ....
, Omid Djalili
Omid Djalili

Omid Djalili is a British stand-up comedy and actor....
Beverley Knight
Beverley Knight

Beverley Knight Order of the British Empire is an England soul music and rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, and record producer who released her debut album in 1995....
 and Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an Music of the United States Grammy- and Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual, and became the first artist to have four top-five singles released from one album....
6 29 March 2006 Dawn French
Dawn French

'Dawn Roma French' is an United Kingdom actor, writer and comedian. In her career, she has been nominated for six BAFTA Television Award. She is best-known for starring in and writing her sketch comedy, French and Saunders, alongside her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and for playing the lead role of Geraldine Granger in the sitcom Th...
, Jill Halfpenny
Jill Halfpenny

Jill Halfpenny is an England actor.Halfpenny is possibly best known for her role as Kate in the United Kingdom TV drama EastEnders, from 2002-5....
, Louis Walsh
Louis Walsh

Louis Walsh is an Ireland music manager and judge on the British television talent show The X Factor .As of November 2006, his acts have totalled 29 UK #1 singles, the 29th being 'The Rose' by Westlife....
Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige

Mary Jane Blige is a nine-time Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American R&B music singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor who has sold more than forty eight million albums worldwide....
 and Will Young
Will Young

Will Young is an English singer-songwriter and actor. He rose to fame in 2002 after winning the inaugural Pop Idol contest....
7 5 April 2006 Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair

Jenny Eclair is a comedienne and novelist, working in the United Kingdom....
, Lulu
Lulu (singer)

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, Order of British Empire, , best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scotland singer-songwriter, actress, model and television personality, who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through to the present day....
, Russell Watson
Russell Watson

Russell Watson is an English tenor who has released single s and albums of both Opera-style and popular music songs. The self-styled "People's Tenor" had been singing since he was a child, and became known after performing at a working men's club....
Shayne Ward
Shayne Ward

Shayne Thomas Ward is an English pop/R&B singer, who was discovered on the second series of UK singing competition The X Factor . Since his 2005 win, Ward has gone on to sell records in parts of Europe, also Asia.....
, and David Gray
David Gray

David Gray may refer to:*David Gray , Scottish poet*David Gray , rugby league player for the Connecticut Wildcats*David Gray , English singer-songwriter...
8 12 April 2006 Jade Goody
Jade Goody

Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody is a British people celebrity. She came into the spotlight while appearing on the Channel 4 reality show Big Brother 2002 in 2002, an appearance which led to her own television programmes and the launch of her own products after her eviction....
, Kacey Ainsworth
Kacey Ainsworth

Kacey Ainsworth is an England actor, best known for playing the long-suffering Little Mo Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.Kacey Ainsworth, is the only soap actress who has won three Soap Actress awards in one single year in 2002....
, Richard Wilson, Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan

Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan , is a former editing of British tabloid newspapers the News of the World and the Daily Mirror . He is credited as author of eight books and is editorial director of First News , a national newspaper for children....
, Peter Grant
Peter Grant

Peter Grant, was an England music manager. Grant managed the popular English bands The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin and Bad Company, amongst others, and was also a record executive for Swan Song Records....
Katie Melua
Katie Melua

Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a Georgian people/United Kingdom singer, songwriter and musician. She was born in Georgia , but moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then relocated to England at the age of 14....
, and Kubb
Kubb

Kubb is a lawn game where the object is to knock over wooden blocks by throwing wooden sticks at them.Kubb can be simply described as a combination of bowling and horseshoes....


Viewing Figures

This is a table displaying the averages of each show for the chatshow, which aired on BBC1. These figures are made available from MediaGuardian.
Episode Air Date Viewers Share
1 15 February 2006 3.5m 14%
2 22 February 2006 2.7m 11%
3 1 March 2006 3.0m 13%
4 8 March 2006 2.5m 11%
5 15 March 2006 2.3m 10.4%
6 29 March 2006 2.6m 12%
7 5 April 2006 2.4m 11%
8 12 April 2006 2.2 11%


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