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Know Your GBBS History: Tart Week
Our new series runs down the truth behind the popular bakes featured on The Great British Baking Show. This week: Tarts! Tart Week Tarte Tatin
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Get Your First Look at the ‘Bletchley Circle’ Spin-off
Streaming service Britbox is launching its first original program this summer, a spinoff of the popular female-led series The Bletchley Circle. Entitled – somewhat less than creatively – The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, the drama will follow two characters from the original series as they take on new mysteries. The original Bletchley
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'Endeavour' Season 5, Episode 2 Recap: Cartouche
Morse faces off with horror and ancient Egyptian curses when Hollywood comes to Oxford in this week's Endeavour. DeByrn: "For some of us, it’s horror season all year round." This week's episode opens at the late night double feature picture show at movie
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‘Grantchester’ Taps Tom Brittney as James Norton’s Replacement
It’s official: Grantchester has itself a new vicar. With the news that star James Norton would be departing the popular mystery series during its upcoming fourth season, the big question was simple: Who would take his place? Norton’s presence (and performance) is a part of the series’ appeal,
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‘The Great British Baking Show’ Season 5 Episode 3 Recap: Tart Week
This week on The Great British Baking Show, ten bakers had a common goal - to tempt Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood (aka The Silverback) with their tarts. Who demonstrated their flair for flavors and pastry perfection? And who crumbled under the pressure? All will be revealed, but first let’
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'Father Brown' Renewed for Season 7
The BBC has officially renewed crime drama Father Brown for a seventh season! Based on the popular novels by G.K. Chesterton, the series stars Harry Potter’s Mark Williams in the title role of a Roman Catholic priest who solves crimes in a picturesque Cotswald village. (This show is
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The Trailer for 'A Discovery of Witches' Promises Supernatural Delights
“Once the world was full of wonders,” Downton Abbey’s Matthew Goode intones ominously in the opening lines of the first trailer for upcoming fantasy drama A Discovery of Witches. “But it belongs to humans now. We have all but disappeared.” Thus begins Sky’s newest big thing, a fantasy
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Know Your GBBS History: Cakes & Bread Week
Our new series runs down the truth behind the popular bakes featured on The Great British Baking Show. This week: Cakes and Bread! Cake Week Upside Down Cake
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Get Your First Look at Amazon’s Lavish New ‘Vanity Fair’
Amazon Studios and British network ITV have released a first look at their lavish new adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s classic novel Vanity Fair. The 1848 novel follows the saga of Becky Sharp, a surprisingly modern heroine who uses her wits to fight her way out of poverty and
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'Endeavour' Season 5 Episode 1 Recap: "Muse"
As Endeavour returns for Season 5, the Oxford City Police are dissolved while Nastya's Egg arrives for auction. DeBryn: Unlikely he'd survive a metal spike being driven into his ear. Whether that was insult to injury remains to be seen. We return to Morse's
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'The Great British Baking Show' Season 5 Episode 2 Recap: Bread Week
A man named Paul Hollywood once said, “Understand bread, understand baking.” And in the second round of The Great British Baking Show, all the contestants were willing and “bagel” to demonstrate their bread making skills. But before we dive into to the newest trio of challenges, let’s quickly review
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‘The Great British Baking Show’ Season 5 Episode 1 Recap : Cake Week
Cake, bread and pie lovers, rejoice! Our penchant for watching British people politely yet passionately baking in a tent will once again be satisfied thanks to the return of another season of The Great British Baking Show to PBS. Granted this set of episodes is not new. In fact, this