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Poll of the Year 2019 - VOTE CLOSED!
It's time for the 15th running of the UKGameshows.com/Bother's Bar Poll of the Year. The vote is now closed, look out for the results on Tuesday 21st January.

Greatest Game Shows

The 100 Most Popular Game Shows
One question you almost certainly haven't been asking yourself is "What are the 100 most popular articles on this site?". Well, tough, because we have and you can see the result of our Greatest Game Shows - it lists stalwarts like The Crystal Maze and Interceptor to surprises such as Kate Thornton's Dishes. Who knew?

Britain's Best Dish

While UKGameshows.com is (even if we say so ourselves) the most comprehensive guide to the genre anywhere on - or off - the web, with over 2100 programmes already in our database it is inevitable that even we're stumped sometimes. So we're asking for your help. A number of our "most wanted" shows are now listed here and a team of volunteers is standing by, waiting to add your contributions to our compendium of game show knowledge. Go on, help us out. It's what Mumsy would want.

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New Shows

Love Island series 8: ITV2, 12 January
Round Britain Quiz: Radio 4, 13 January
Celebability series 4: ITV2, 16 January
Crackerjack revival: CBBC, 17 January
Portrait Artist of the Year 2020: Sky Arts, 21 January
Win the Wilderness: BBC2, 26 January
Celebrity Come Dine with Me: E4, 26 January

 

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The Great British Bake Off
16 January Sandi's leaving the tent
Sandi Toksvig has announced that she is leaving The Great British Bake Off in order to focus on other work commitments. Her final series will be the next series of The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer, due to air in the spring. Searches for a replacement are underway.

Love Island
20 December Writ Ins Whitmore
Laura Whitmore has been announced as the new host of 2020's Winter Love Island and show narrator Iain Stirling her Aftersun co-host. It is currently unknown as to whether Caroline Flack will return for subsequent series, summer series or no series.

Love Island
17 December Flack's off
Caroline Flack has stepped down as host of Love Island. The presenter was arrested on 12 December after an altercation with her boyfriend at their shared Islington home. A replacement host will be named for the winter series, scheduled to begin on 8 January.

Gary Rhodes
27 November Gary Rhodes
The death has been announced of TV chef Gary Rhodes at age 59 at his home in Dubai. In the game show world he was best known as a seatwarmer for the shows Masterchef and Hell's Kitchen.

Eurovision Song Contest
13 November Forty-One Open Up to Eurovision 2020
The European Broadcasting Union has announced that 41 entries will compete in the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam, Netherlands after the country claimed their fifth victory after their last win in 1975. Bulgaria and Ukraine will return to the contest after a one year absence while Hungary and Montenegro will not.

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