THE LATE LATE Show will face some competition tonight as the new talk show from The Traitor’s host Claudia Winkleman airs on BBC.

Patrick Kielty is kicking off his St Patrick’s Day edition of The Late Late Show on RTÉ One at its usual 9:35pm time-slot, but some viewers might migrate over to BBC One for The Claudia Winkleman Show at 10.40pm.

The BBC has said the new chat show, which is made by the production company behind The Graham Norton Show, will feature Winkleman interviewing the biggest names from the worlds of film, television and music in front of a studio audience.

Tonight’s show will see Jurassic Park star Jeff Goldblum, actress Vanessa Williams, author Jennifer Saunders and comedian Tom Allen take a seat next to Winkleman’s sofa.

“I can’t quite believe it and I’m incredibly grateful to the BBC for this amazing opportunity,” Winkleman told the BBC. “I’m obviously going to be awful, that goes without saying, but I’m over the moon they’re letting me try.”

Meanwhile comedian Joanne McNally, actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers and entertainer Tommy Tiernan will join Kielty at RTÉ studios tonight. The hosts of the How to Gael podcast, Louise Cantillon, Doireann Ní Ghlacáin and Síomha Ní Ruairc, will also make an appearance.

There will also be music from Irish artists Glen Hansard, Mick Flannery and Biird, and poetry from Cork writer Daragh Fleming.

Tonight’s show will be the first airing of The Late Late Show for two weeks after last week’s episode was swapped out for romantic comedy It’s Complicated due to the Six Nations coverage.

Hopefully the time off has given Kielty the energy he’ll need to face the new competition.

With that, we’re asking: Which chat show will you tune into tonight?