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Before diving into this week's recap of The Great British Baking Show, we must discuss reality shows and the casting process. This is not to suggest anything nefarious going on in the casting. If anything, the casting directors for the competition are incredibly talented at assembling a balanced
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The Great British Baking Show is back! The series returned to Channel 4 earlier this week and then rolled right over to Netflix for the weekend. Outside, climate change is producing hurricanes of ludicrous proportions; contentious elections are on, and war seems to be spreading. But here in the tent,
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Last week, Channel 4 revealed that The Great British Baking Show would return in 2024 to the exact spot on the calendar where it always premieres since the pandemic forced it to slide from an end-of-August debut to the end of September. At the time, with the Tuesday premiere confirmed,
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The Great British Baking Show has had a rocky couple of seasons. After audiences overlooked the growing boy energy in the tent during the pandemic, grateful that the show was continuing at all, the hosting team of Noel Fielding & Matt Lucas was finally deemed unworkable after Season 13'
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Since 2016, it has felt like the U.S. is on the verge of a nervous breakdown every four years heading into November. But no matter how awful it is out in the world, there's been one safe place for everyone to go every autumn: The Tent on
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Hitch up your skirts and saddle your ponies; Dick Turpin rides at... well, not dawn; he's a man who likes breakfast and also travels during reasonable hours. However, despite his inability to be an early bird (who wants to eat worms anyway?), the entirely SEO-unfriendly The Completely Made-Up
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Most Americans hadn't heard of Noel Fielding prior to 2017, when he was hired by Channel 4 to host The Great British Baking Show in place of Sue and Mel when the series moved house from the BBC. But Fielding had a cult following among fans of British
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The newest streaming comedy that wants to steal your heart (literally) is The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, not to be confused with any of the many preceding shows and movies that share its eponymous origins. Of course, The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin isn’t wholly made-up.
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The 2024 Winter Television Critics Association press tour kicked off on February 5, 2024, the first major TV presentation since the end of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2023. Apple TV+ kicked off the event with a full slate of upcoming series and returning hits it had lined up
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It's been nearly two years since Apple TV+ first announced Noel Fielding would be trading in on his American fame from hosting The Great British Baking Show to land a spot in the Apple TV+ roster of comedy shows. Though Fielding was known among British comedy aficionados for
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They say be careful what you wish for, and this season of The Great British Baking Show has been a stark reminder of why that's true. Since the series exited the BBC, losing most of the cast along the way and upsetting the balance of power in the
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In the before times, when The Great British Baking Show's producers were not quite aware of just how much its American audience was into the series, the show hewed to the British fall TV schedule, which kicks off over the final week of August, as the British do