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The Great British Baking Show keeps things traditional with a return to Pâtisserie for this season's semi-final. This has been the standard semi-final challenge nearly every year since Series 2 (which has never aired in the US.) Series 4 and 6 (Seasons 2 and 3 for PBS viewers)
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The Great British Baking Show hits pastries for the Season 10 quarterfinal. Pastry is one of the standards of the series, having been a Weekly Challenge every season save Series 2 (never seen in the U.S.) and 3 (PBS Season 5, aka GBBS: The Beginnings on Netflix). In those
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As if "Dairy Week" wasn't nebulous enough this season as a theme week, The Great British Baking Show goes even more meta with the Top Six and forces them to think "Festivals." I might go so far as to say this sounds like the
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The tent is finally down to a manageable amount of bakers on The Great British Baking Show, as the Top Seven pile in for Dessert Week. This theme week has been a standard since the second series (which Americans haven't seen), only getting dropped once during Series 8
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American viewers may not know this, but The Great British Baking Show started partly as a history program. The initial first season (which never aired here in the U.S.) was one-part baking contest, one-part fundraising initiative, and one-part "history of baking." It wasn't just Bread
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There was a time, early on inThe Great British Baking Show history where the categories were straightforward. There were Pies, Puddings, Traybakes, and Desserts. But since Season 6 (Season 3 for us), they've been getting more experimental in the tent. Now there are more meta ideas like "
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It's time for the third and final of the baking basics as The Great British Baking Show brings us Bread Week. It's Bread Week in the tent, with all the under-proofed and overworked tragedies that come with it. Bread Week is also the unofficial Paul Hollywood
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If it's Week 2 in the Great British Baking Show tent, it must be time for biscuits. There's something very comforting about tradition, and for most of its ten seasons (even the ones America hasn't seen), the first three weeks of the Great British
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Netflix begins airing Great British Baking Show Season 7 in a weekly format, as God and Paul Hollywood intended. First up: Cake Week! When Netflix grabbed the rights to The Great British Baking Show in 2018, thereby making it a "Netflix Original" in this country, they were already
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PBS' time with The Great British Baking Show seems to have come to an end, at least until 2020. By this time last year, The Great British Baking Show had returned to PBS for a new round, dubbed "Season 5" by the channel. But this was not
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New episodes of The Great British Baking Show are here, including holiday specials, but now they're only available on Netflix. Recently, I've been bombarded with questions by fans of The Great British Baking Show, trying to understand the recent changes regarding the series and its availability.
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Anyone who follows popular reality series The Great British Baking Show knows that the series has had something of a complicated airing schedule here in America. And it’s about to get even more so, as the series departs public broadcaster PBS and heads to streaming service Netflix. What’s