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Displaying all articles tagged:
The Great British Baking Show
now streaming
Nov. 22, 2024
The 41 Best Reality Shows on Netflix
Love Is Blind
,
Formula 1: Drive to Survive, The Great British Baking Show,
and more.
By
Laura Bradley
overnights
Nov. 8, 2024
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Just Desserts
Like the episode itself, this recap makes as many dick jokes as possible.
By
Brian Moylan
eliminations
Nov. 1, 2024
Thanks for the Tears, Paul and Prue
A heartbreaking
Great British Baking Show
decision underlines what an all-timer this season is.
By
Roxana Hadadi
attention bakers
Nov. 1, 2024
The Great British Baking Show
Boss Is ‘Very Interested’ in an All-Star Season
Despite what Prue Leith says.
By
Devon Ivie
overnights
Nov. 1, 2024
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Pie in the Sky
A forgettable theme allows the bakers to do what they do best: just baking really good cakes and pies.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 25, 2024
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: How Do You Phyllo?
Who cares if the bakes are good when the bakers are this delightful.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 18, 2024
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Sticky Fingers
It’s caramel week, which means lots of splitting, curdling, and burnt sugar in the tent.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 11, 2024
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Buns in the Oven
Bread Week proves to be a triumph for the bakers and pun-loving hosts alike.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 4, 2024
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Puppet Strings Attached
There’s a lot of hardship this week between the medical emergencies and the near-impossible challenges.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Sept. 27, 2024
The Great British Baking Show
Season-Premiere Recap: Loaf Is in the Air
An amusing cast, impressive loaves, and an unseasonably cold tent make for a delightful start to the season.
By
Brian Moylan
25 days of reality
Dec. 3, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Cracked the Co-Host Code
In her debut season as co-presenter, Alison Hammond proved herself a vital ingredient to the show’s success.
By
Jen Chaney
overnights
Dec. 1, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Season-Finale Recap: As Tiers Go By
A pleasant season ends with a laughing, smiling, giddy finale for a laughing, smiling, giddy champion.
By
Brian Moylan
no more mr. nice pie
Nov. 30, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Needs a Villain
Yes, it goes against everything this show stands for. But hear me out.
By
Roxana Hadadi
overnights
Nov. 24, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Such a Tart!
We’re not entirely sure the right person went home during the dreaded Patisserie Week.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Nov. 10, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Technical Difficulties
Dessert week? More like failure week.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Nov. 3, 2023
The
Great British Baking Show
Recap: Buns in the Oven
For a brief,
brief
moment, Cristy looks like she could be the dark horse of the season … until she spectacularly spirals.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 27, 2023
The
Great British Baking Show
Recap: Pies Are Squared
Finally, the chefs get to make some lovely fruit pies instead of just savory ones filled with sausage and haggis and things of that nature.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 20, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Chocolate Kisses
Despite chocolate work not
really
being baking, it makes for another good challenge in our “back to basics” season.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 13, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Something to Prove
It’s Bread Week, which means we’re forced to watch bakers sit around waiting for their dough to rise.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 6, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: The Cookie Crumbles
It’s always baffling when bakers rely on techniques they can’t conquer.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Sept. 29, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Season-Premiere Recap: Leave It to Beaver
With a new co-host and a return to basics, our cozy baking show is back and delightful as ever.
By
Brian Moylan
leaving the tent
Dec. 6, 2022
Matt Lucas Says He’s Too Busy to Keep Co-hosting
The
Great British Bake Off
“I am cheerfully passing the baguette on to someone else,” he wrote.
By
Jennifer Zhan
overnights
Nov. 18, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Season-Finale Recap: Flavor Savior
A lackluster season ends with three excellent bakers taking on final challenges that are undeserving of their talents.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Nov. 4, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Pie Hard
A tough pastry week makes for a tough elimination.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 28, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Custard’s Last Stand
What is custard? Well, it’s like English pudding but not nearly as stiff, and they put it in or on just about every dessert you can imagine.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 21, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: October Surprise
Bless the bakers for going along with these Halloween Week challenges without the tiniest bit of snark.
By
Brian Moylan
the great british baking no
Oct. 19, 2022
A
Great British Bake Off
Musical? Scrummy!
Staging a musical adaptation of a low-stakes reality baking competition for the West End sounds like a technical challenge.
By
Rebecca Alter
overnights
Oct. 14, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Pudding Their Best Foot Forward
After the disaster that was Mexican Week, it’s a relief to get back to the simple drama of wobbly puddings and gelatinous curd.
By
Brian Moylan
holy ‘glockymolo’
Oct. 7, 2022
The Great British Bake Off
’s Mexican Week Felt Like a Half-Baked Idea
And not just because of the many mispronunciations.
By
Jennifer Zhan
overnights
Oct. 7, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Mexican Standoff
This week’s real challenge is trying not to be offensive.
By
Brian Moylan
ummm
Oct. 4, 2022
The Great British Bake Off
’s Prue Leith Once Did What As a Child?
According to her memoir, her mother once made her drown a bag of kittens.
By
Jennifer Zhan
overnights
Sept. 30, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Swede, Swede Victory
This year’s Bread Week features minimal bread baking and an eerily empty tent.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Sept. 23, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Mask for Mask
Finishing your showstopper with a half-hour still left: never a good sign.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Sept. 16, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Season-Premiere Recap: Holding Out for a Hero
Returning to the
Bake Off
tent is like crawling into a comfy, warm oven, one full of lovely people where nothing too bad ever happens.
By
Brian Moylan
the great vulture predict off
Sept. 7, 2022
Predicting This Season of
The
Great British Bake Off
(Based on a Cast Photo)
We may not have all the information, but we do have one nice picture.
By
Jason P. Frank
sweet!
Aug. 17, 2022
Ellie Kemper and Zach Cherry to Co-host
The Great American Baking Show
The
Bake Off
spinoff premieres in 2023.
By
Zoe Guy
pronti…cosante…cottura al forno!
Dec. 10, 2021
A Victory Chat With Giuseppe Dell’Anno,
Great British Bake Off
’s Michelangelo
“I never felt that the other bakers were competitors. That said, I was convinced 100 percent that Jürgen was going to win from day one.”
By
Devon Ivie
fan theories
Dec. 1, 2021
Was This Season of
Bake Off
an Anti-Brexit Metaphor?
The bakers who succeeded all hailed from a different Britain than the Brexit ideal, a multicultural nation of casual assimilation.
By
Nate Jones
overnights
Nov. 27, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Season Finale Recap: Bubble Over
In the end, the weirdest season in
Great British
history brought me to tears after all.
By
Rachel Sugar
overnights
Nov. 20, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Fallen Star
It’s Pâtisserie Week and it’s all just too much.
By
Rachel Sugar
overnights
Nov. 13, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Just Desserts
This show is at its best when it’s very, very British.
By
Rachel Sugar
overnights
Nov. 6, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Unleash the Quiche
As America grapples with the nature of democracy,
GBBO
grapples with the nature of “a theme.”
By
Rachel Sugar
overnights
Oct. 30, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Just Eat the Pickle, Paul!
There’s nothing inherently wrong with Japanese Week as a concept, but this episode illustrates all the ways it can go bad.
By
Rachel Sugar
recaps
Oct. 23, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Was Never Going to Save Us
Perhaps we’ve been asking too much of Paul Hollywood and the gang.
By
Rachel Sugar
overnights
Oct. 16, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Hot Chocolate
The world is mired in problems of our own making. Why must it also be that way in the tent?
By
Rachel Sugar
overnights
Oct. 9, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Better Off Bread
Every Bread Week is a singular event, but this Bread Week is particularly momentous.
By
Rachel Sugar
overnights
Sept. 25, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Keep Calm and Bake a Cake
Yes
of course
everything is terrible, but on the other hand, Battenberg cake!
By
Rachel Sugar
british tv
Mar. 29, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Delays New Season Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Ready. Set. Tears.
By
Devon Ivie
interview
Nov. 13, 2019
Steph Blackwell Broke Out of Her ‘Introverted’ Shell for the
British Baking Show
“I’d always think to myself, ‘As long as I turn something in, I’ll be happy
.’”
By
Devon Ivie
holiday tv
Nov. 7, 2019
Great British Bake Off
Better Fireproof the Tent: The
Derry Girls
Are Coming!
That’s good
craic
!
By
Rebecca Alter
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