The Great British Baking Show
Netflix has a problem. Ever since the streaming service woke up one morning to find that the Walt Disney Company was terminating its contract to give Netflix exclusive first streaming rights — one that took years to hammer out and implement and had been in effect for all of a year
The Great British Baking Show
It's the Quarterfinal round of The Great British Baking Show, one of my favorite weeks of the competition. Mainly because what other competition show gives itself the kind of airs that they call their Top Five Week "The Quarterfinals," like it's a major sporting
The Great British Baking Show
Since moving to BBC One with Season 5 (and hitting American shores on PBS with it renamed Season 1), The Great British Baking Show has always attempted to add in one theme week that's a little on the conceptual side as the show narrows it down to their
The Great British Baking Show
If people need proof American traditions have invaded the U.K., they need look no further than this week's theme on The Great British Baking Show. That's not to say that the Brits did not celebrate Halloween in the past; All Hallow's Eve was
The Great British Baking Show
It's Dessert Week in the tent, as The Great British Baking Show tries to shake off Mexican Week in hopes viewers will quickly forget with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads. Dessert Week is one of those catch-all themes that can be as easy or as
The Great British Baking Show
It took a decade, but The Great British Baking Show finally revealed its limitations. "Mexican Week" was always going to be cringe-worthy; it was just a matter of how bad it would get. The answer, from the moment Matt and Noel showed up wearing serapes in the show&
The Great British Baking Show
Since the pandemic began in 2020, The Great British Baking Show has struggled mightily to sally forth. As one of the few live competitions to find a way to record and broadcast during some of the worst periods via the "Bake Off Bubble," it was a beacon of
Reality
It's Biscuit Week in the tent on The Great British Baking Show because Cookie Week does not fly around these parts. That means it's time to change the song too. Everyone sing along with me: "B is for Biscuit, that's good enough for
Reality
For those who have been watching The Great British Baking Show since it debuted on PBS in 2014, this has been the conform TV show for the last decade of upheaval, there for us after Brexit, the 2016 elections, and all through the pandemic. This week's premiere should
Reality
This week is a heavy one in the U.K. as the mourning period for Queen Elizabeth II extends until her funeral on Monday. But though much of U.K. television is being either canceled or delayed (sorry, Strictly Come Dancing fans!), one show has risen and delivered out of
Reality
The Great British Baking Show was renewed by Channel 4 for multiple new seasons last November, extending the tent's run through Season 15, or as Netflix calls it, "Collection 12." Along with the extended renewal comes a return to normality for filming, with the program moving
Comedy
Noel Fielding was already a known comedian in the U.K., famous for being part of the sketch comedy troupe The Mighty Boosh, though anglophilic Americans probably knew him best from his role on The IT Crowd. But it was Channel 4 tapping him as part of The Great British