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The Great British Baking Show's move to Channel 4 has finally run into the problem most assumed would occur much earlier. When Mary Berry left the tent (along with Sue and Mel), the critical consensus was that Paul Hollywood's ego would be allowed free reign. Within
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Before we break down this week's semifinal episode of The Great British Baking Show (which went exactly as most suspected), I was to talk about Paul Hollywood. (Yes, again.) The show's 100lb gorilla continues to be the production's most significant problem, not just because
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It is a truth that The Great British Baking Show will not acknowledge; the two judges who currently oversee the competition have palates formed during some of the worst years of the island nation's cuisine, the 1970s. It's why Paul Hollywood (who is nearly 60) wouldn&
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When The Great British Baking Show moved house from BBC One to Channel 4 after its seventh season (labeled Season 4 by PBS), the contract was for a guaranteed three seasons. This was in keeping with the same structure the show had done with the BBC. After the show'
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For the second year running, The Great British Baking Show has decided that "Dessert Week" should be the last theme before the Quarterfinal round. Like Pastry Week, "Desserts" is a bit of a grab-bag theme, encompassing the kind of baking that doesn't fit neatly
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The last couple of theme weeks on The Great British Baking Show initially caught my attention because they followed a similar pattern to the previous year, not just because it felt deliberate, but because Season 14 marked the series "changing up" the themes used previously due to the
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It's Pastry Week in the tent as The Great British Baking Show returns on a rainy day, with the bakers bundled up against the chill. This is notably the second time in a row the series has put Pastry Week smack dab in the middle of the season.
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Oh dear, it's Caramel Week on The Great British Baking Show, and that's always a sticky situation, ready to shatter at a moment's notice or, worse, melt into goo. The last time we saw Caramel Week was Season 12 (Collection 9), when it turned
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I will be the first to say that, though it took Channel 4 three tries before they got there, Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond are the network's answer to Sue & Mel during the BBC years of The Great British Baking Show. Sure, the Barbie opening was a
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Before diving into this week's recap of The Great British Baking Show, we must discuss reality shows and the casting process. This is not to suggest anything nefarious going on in the casting. If anything, the casting directors for the competition are incredibly talented at assembling a balanced
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The Great British Baking Show is back! The series returned to Channel 4 earlier this week and then rolled right over to Netflix for the weekend. Outside, climate change is producing hurricanes of ludicrous proportions; contentious elections are on, and war seems to be spreading. But here in the tent,
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Last week, Channel 4 revealed that The Great British Baking Show would return in 2024 to the exact spot on the calendar where it always premieres since the pandemic forced it to slide from an end-of-August debut to the end of September. At the time, with the Tuesday premiere confirmed,