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Nigella Lawson Joins 'The Great British Baking Show' Tent
Nigella Lawson joins Paul Hollywood in 'The Great British Baking Show' tent as a judge, in a move that may finally solve the show's main problem.
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Prue Leith to Exit 'The Great British Baking Show'
After nine years in 'The Great British Baking Show' tent, Prue Leith is hanging up her judge's spectacles.
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'The Great British Baking Show' Season 17 Will Feature "Audience Choice Week"
The Great British Baking Show will return for Season 17, featuring a new audience-participation twist.
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'The Great British Baking Show' Season 16's Bakers Are Freshly Risen
After nearly two decades on the air, The Great British Baking Show is something of an institution in British culture. For its first decade, it also debuted like clockwork in the same spot in the calendar, right after the three-day bank holiday at the end of August. Even when the
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Mitchell & Webb Are Here to Help in 'Mitchell & Webb Are Not Helping'
They say that comedy does better when economic situations get worse, which would explain why Channel 4 has chosen this particular moment in time to bring back the long-awaited revival of David Mitchell and Robert Webb's continuing sketch comedy franchise. The two British comedians have been bringing their
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'The Great British Baking Show' Season 16 Trailer Is a Light in the Darkness
Regular readers of Telly Visions will have noted the past few weeks have been a bit light in posting; much like 2024, the summer has been filled with family emergencies, and rescission means less help. It's a dark time, not just for public broadcasting, but for the world
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Bella Ramsey to Star with Daisy Haggard in 'Maya'
Most Americans probably won't recognize the name Daisy Haggard off the top of their heads. The third-generation actor (her father was director Piers Haggard, her grandfather actor Stephen Haggard) was in two of the biggest U.K. franchises during their respective peaks, the voice of the Ministry lifts
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Meet the New 'Couple Next Door' for Season 2
It is a truth we don't usually say aloud around these parts, but the reality is that most of the Eagle Eye Drama shows, which are remakes of foreign language hits from sister company Walter Presents in English, aren't very good in their first season. Professor
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The First Images From 'In Flight' See Katherine Kelly In Danger In the Skies
British network Channel 4 has released the first batch of images from its forthcoming thriller In Flight, a high-stakes, high-octane drama about a flight attendant whose life and career are thrown into chaos when she’s blackmailed into smuggling drugs through her job after her son is arrested. The six-part
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'Pierre' Rounds Out Cast as First Images Released
British mysteries, no matter when they are set, consistently find an audience in the U.S. The same cannot be said about legal dramas, Rumpole's success in the early 1980s notwithstanding. Period piece legal dramas do ok, especially ones attached to Agatha Christie-style whodunits. But contemporary legal dramas
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'A Woman of Substance' Casts 'Vera's Brenda Blethyn
The 1979 debut novel of British author Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance, was a massive hit. The first in what became the “Emma Harte Cycle,” a seven-novel saga tracing the fictional heroine’s rise from country housemaid to Wall Street mogul, sold 30 million copies and made Taylor
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Jack Thorne's 'Adolescence' Follow Up, 'Falling' Reveals Cast
The streaming upheaval that initially rocked the U.S. entertainment landscape in 2014-2015 marked the beginning of the ongoing globalization of television. However, it took a while for that tidal wave to wash ashore across the pond, where places like France literally made laws trying to prevent Netflix from existing.