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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
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The Great British Baking Show Season 8's semi-finals have arrived, and unlike other seasons, it's a bit of a motley crew in the Top 4. By this time, in different seasons, firm favorites had emerged: Nancy, Nadiya, Candice, and Rahul all spring to mind. But this
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It's Top 5 Week on The Great British Baking Show Season 8 (or Series 11 if you prefer). It's the week the series has unofficially dubbed the quarter-finals since the show's second series (the one that's never aired over here.) Fittingly, it&
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When the idea of historically themed weeks started on The Great British Baking Show, they began with quintessentially English ones. The first, Victorian Week, celebrated the longest-serving monarch before Elizabeth II and the quirky delicacies that trended during her reign. The second, Tudor Week, also celebrated historical relics of baking,
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A significant shift happened in The Great British Baking Show Series 5, which was the American Season 1, and I'm not just talking about the show's move to broadcasting on PBS. It was the first season where the show introduced theme weeks beyond the traditional "
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Last week's The Great British Baking Show was tough, both for those in the tent and those watching from home. The entire "Chocolate Week" theme proved deeply difficult, and Sura's subsequent dismissal from the tent (after serving the second-ever unedible bake in the show&
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With the three beginner bakes out of the way, it's time for The Great British Baking Show to get into the meat of the season, as it were, as we reach the ever-rotating themes that span from "Victorian" to "Pastry." This season continues to
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Bread Week has always held a special place in The Great British Baking Show pantheon. While Mary Berry and now Prue Leith have always been about the cakes and cookies, judge Paul Hollywood is a bread man, through and through. No contestant that fails out in Bread Week can make
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Oh, the news outside is frightful, but the tent is so delightful. And since quarantine means there's nowhere to go, it's a good thing it's time for The Great British Baking Show. As per usual, this season is starting with the Major Trio in
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As autumn descends onto 2020, the upheaval in the streaming world and the barrage of new programming takes a short break. But don't worry, PBS Passport, Acorn TV, and Britbox are all here for viewers this October, as is Netflix, which brings four series to these shores this
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It arrived about a month later than usual, but even a pandemic could not keep The Great British Baking Show from bringing us the comforts of Cake Week. But instead of bakers going home every week to practice and returning over the course of ten weekends to film, everyone moved,