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Robbie Williams is set to take a place alongside Take That bandmate Gary Barlow as a guest judge on the next series of The X Factor. Rod Stewart is also set to make an appearance, perhaps hoping the Pop legend will prove as popular as old favourite Tom Jones’s stint on the BBC’s The Voice.

Steve Coogan’s legendary DJ and talk show host alter ego Alan Partridge is set to return to our screens, with several new shows lined up for Sky Atlantic. Coogan is quoted as saying that,’Alan has been off the TV for too long [but] feels the second decade of the millennium is the right time.’

North Wales police have referred Sky News to the Crown Prosecution Service following the accidental broadcast of the name of the rape victim of recently jailed Ched Evans, the Sheffield United player.

Former children’s presenter Michaela Strachan is returning to the BBC as presenter of Springwatch. This could prove popular since Strachan reportedly became somewhat of an unlikely sex symbol after appearances in nature programmes including The Really Wild Show and The Animal Planet network.