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Now that The Great British Baking Show has finished its traditional openers, it's time to get into the wilder middle rounds. Once the series hits round four, just about anything goes. But if there's one week that's been closest to a traditional opener for
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It is once again Bread Week in The Great British Baking Show tent, the third of the show's opening foundational bakes triumvirate along with Cakes and Biscuits. Bread has been part of the show's opening weeks since the series' initial first season. While Biscuits have
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It's Biscuit Week in the tent, and c'mon now, let's be honest. I don't care how American you are. You're calling it Biscuit Week because "Cookie Week" just doesn't have the same ring to it. But
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It's high summer in the U.K. The grass is green, the birds and chirping, and "Achy Breaky Heart" is playing. Welcome to The Great British...wait what now? For those of us hoping the boy energy of last season would dissipate between seasons, sorry y&
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After much throat-clearing and deliberate delays, The Great British Baking Show (a.k.a The Great British Bake Off) has confirmed it will return right where everyone knew it would, in the third week of September. As it did last year, the series will premiere overseas in the U.K.
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The Great British Baking Show is officially a fall staple for Netflix. It makes sense for American audiences to make everyone's favorite soothing baking series coincide with the cooling-off of the south since that is when Apple Pie season begins, leading directly to pumpkins, Thanksgiving, and the holiday
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Netflix is expanding its baking reality series line up ahead of the Fall season, with the streaming service's biggest hit, The Great British Baking Show, as the heart of its kitchen. Though most of the baking series on their way are decidedly un-anglophilic (Cooking with Paris is not
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Since 2010, The Great British Baking Show has been one of the most comforting series on television. First overseas in its home in the U.K., then over here, first on PBS and then on Netflix, this kinder, gentler reality series about those who like to make cakes and cookies
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The Great British Baking Show was tailor-made for the sort of reality series to do Christmas specials. The "Christmas Special" episode has been part of the TV landscape ever since television became the modern hearth for families. In the U.K., these special Christmas episodes were mostly the
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The late start to this year's edition of The Great British Baking Show had the unintended consequence of landing the finals over American Thanksgiving. It is a moment to give thanks for the heroic lengths the production went to in doing a lockdown edition in the middle of
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The most recent season of The Great British Baking Show was not the series's best effort: From ridiculous challenges that seemed more focused on shaming the contestants than celebrating their bakes to awkward host interactions and truly incomprehensible judging decisions, the tent has been a mess this year,
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Two great British programs are joining forces to make our holidays a little brighter - the Great British Baking Show special featuring the cast of the hit comedy Derry Girls is coming to Netflix next month. Given everything that's happened since the Baking Show (or the Bake Off