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| | <div class="square" style="float:left">[[File:The X Factor logo.jpg|75px|The X Factor]]</div>11 June 2014 '''Zig-a-zig-ah! Mel B joins The X Factor'''<br />Mel B has been announced as the fourth and final judge on this year's series of [[The X Factor]]. The former Spice Girl was previously a guest judge on the 2012 series, and has also judged on the Australian version of the programme, and on ''America's Got Talent''. She will join [[Simon Cowell]] and Cheryl Cole who are returning to the panel, as well as long-standing judge [[Louis Walsh]], who, contrary to earlier reports, has not left the programme. The new series will begin airing in the summer.<br/><br/> | | <div class="square" style="float:left">[[File:The X Factor logo.jpg|75px|The X Factor]]</div>11 June 2014 '''Zig-a-zig-ah! Mel B joins The X Factor'''<br />Mel B has been announced as the fourth and final judge on this year's series of [[The X Factor]]. The former Spice Girl was previously a guest judge on the 2012 series, and has also judged on the Australian version of the programme, and on ''America's Got Talent''. She will join [[Simon Cowell]] and Cheryl Cole who are returning to the panel, as well as long-standing judge [[Louis Walsh]], who, contrary to earlier reports, has not left the programme. The new series will begin airing in the summer.<br/><br/> |
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| - | 18 December '''Travis Penery'''<br />Everyone at UKGameshows.com is very sad to hear of the death of Travis Penery, one of our contributors and a long-standing member of the UK game show fandom scene. Travis was well-known for his in-depth knowledge of formats and selflessly shared his passion for television with fans both in the UK and around the world. Often his Christmas cards contained a small bundle of CDs containing rarities he had found from his extensive sources, including his own satellite TV system. He also wrote his own blog and contributed UK-skewing articles to the US game show site Buzzerblog. He died aged 29, following complications from a stroke. We would like to extend our sincere condolences to his friends and family.<br/><br/>
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| - | 23 August '''Show pulled after fakery claims'''<br/>The BBC has suspended [[Sun, Sea and Bargain Spotting]] after it emerged that a "member of the public" seen buying an item from contestants was in fact one of the show's cameramen. The series, the offending episode of which was repeated last Wednesday, has also been withdrawn from the BBC's iPlayer catch-up service.
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| - | 18 August '''Coach Trip keeps travelling'''<br/>12 Yard's recently-revived [[Coach Trip]] has been recommissioned for a longer, 50-episode run in 2010. The show returned to Channel 4 daytime earlier this year after a 3-year break.
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| - | 18 March '''Royal Television Society Awards'''<br/>
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| - | 11 March '''All, some, or none shall have prizes'''<br/>
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| - | 4 March '''UC ruckus rumbles on'''<br/>
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