Carmen Croghan often looks at the state of her British addiction and wonders how it got so out of hand. A part-time reference library staffer, she spends an inordinate amount of time watching just about any British series she can track down.
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We’re at the halfway point of this season's The Great British Baking Show competition and eight accomplished amateur bakers remain. This week, contestants were presented with three painstaking pastry challenges. I don’t know about you, but just the thought of trying to produce flaky layers of
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Nine determined bakers remained as we entered week four of this most British of baking competitions. In this round our group faced a first in The Great British Baking Show history – a series of batter-related challenges! Not to be confused with one who plays cricket, this episode was a case
Actors and Actresses
As you are probably already aware, Grantchester has returned to PBS for a third season. Hurrah for more of that vicar/detective male bonding! For those of you who may have become familiar with actor Robson Green through his role as DI Geordie Keating, I’m here to enlighten you
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In this third installment of our The Great British Baking Show Season 4, we follow our ten bold bakers as they attempt to “prove” their mastery of the bread making arts. But first let’s review how eleven became ten in last time’s biscuit-palooza. Despite messy iced biscuits and
Movies
The 2017 Glastonbury Festival is underway in Somerset in the Southwest of England. Touted as the largest greenfield festival in the world, this five-day event is a celebration of contemporary performing arts including dance, comedy and theatre. But above all, Glastonbury is known as a mecca for live musical performances.
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Welcome back to another tasty The Great British Baking Show recap! It was crunch time for our eleven bakers as they returned to the tent to test their biscuit-based skills. But before we get down to the newest trio of challenges, let’s quickly review the results from the last
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Welcome back everyone to what I expect will be a memorable and bittersweet season of The Great British Baking Show. You may recall that in 2016, the BBC was outbid by a rival UK network, Channel 4, for the rights to produce The Great British Bake Off. For more on
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Get ready, America - another season of The Great British Baking Show is almost here. Yes, our favorite gentle, civilized, oh-so-British culinary reality show is back! If you’re anything like me, you too have been missing the bakers’ tent, Mel and Sue’s puns, and mentions of the dreaded
Movies
Summer is prime movie season in part due to the lovely air-conditioned darkness that can transport you to different places and eras. And it would appear that this summer, British films will be doing just that. The offerings range from the Victorian era to the Cold War and beyond. With
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I realize it’s a bit late in the game to be mentioning this, but Tuesday night on PBS has become a must-see TV night for me recently. My enthusiasm is all due to a new educational reality mini-series set in Victorian era London, called Victorian Slum House. You may
Drama
No sooner have we dried our tears from Sunday night’s season finale then comes the announcement that several of the Call the Midwife cast are quitting the show. It had already been reported at the end of March that Ben Caplan, the actor who plays Sgt. Peter Noakes, would
Drama
If I were to use one word to describe this week’s Call the Midwife season finale it would be “emotional." Whether brought on by hormones or resulting from events both tragic and joyous, if you didn’t cry during this episode you may not be human. It was