No 'Great British Baking Show' This Summer On PBS

PBS' time with The Great British Baking Show seems to have come to an end, at least until 2020.

By this time last year, The Great British Baking Show had returned to PBS for a new round, dubbed "Season 5" by the channel. But this was not Season 5, nor was it new. U.K. to U.S. season numbering aside, the BBC had lost the rights to the series overseas. New seasons were broadcasting on Channel 4, which had no contract with PBS. What viewers were watching, whether they knew it or not, was the original Great British Bake Off Series 3 from way back in 2012, a season the show had not planned to ever air over here in the first place. (This initial plan to not air Series 1-3 explains the numbering discrepancy. GBBS Season 4, for example, was GBBO Series 7, which lines up when the first three series are removed.)

At the time, it seemed like perhaps the BBC and PBS would keep things going, and 2019 could see a "Season 6" which was really Series 2 from back in 2011, the first year the show began to resemble the series viewers know and love today. But with nothing on the horizon, it looks like that will not be so.