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The Great British Baking Show
For the first four series of The Great British Baking Show (the U.K. editions, not the American ones, which means we're only talking The Beginnings Season 1 and regular edition GBBO Season 2 here), each Theme Week was a basic bake. Not Just Bread, Cakes, Biscuits, and
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Now that The Great British Baking Show has finished its traditional openers, it's time to get into the wilder middle rounds. Once the series hits round four, just about anything goes. But if there's one week that's been closest to a traditional opener for
The Great British Baking Show
It is once again Bread Week in The Great British Baking Show tent, the third of the show's opening foundational bakes triumvirate along with Cakes and Biscuits. Bread has been part of the show's opening weeks since the series' initial first season. While Biscuits have
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Netflix is heading into period piece war dramas next year as part of its ever-growing movie slate. Star-studded World War II-set films have done gangbusters at the box office over the years (looking at you, Dunkirk). In its endless attempt to have a little of everything, Netflix
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It's Biscuit Week in the tent, and c'mon now, let's be honest. I don't care how American you are. You're calling it Biscuit Week because "Cookie Week" just doesn't have the same ring to it. But
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Much like real life, when The Crown Season 4 introduced Princess Diana, she immediately took over the show, becoming the main focus of the entire season. On the one hand, it did wonders for the series' profile. After spending three seasons mired in the small but respectable single million
Bridgerton
Bridgerton is inarguably one of the most anticipated shows returning to Netflix in 2022. The runaway hit based on Julia Quinn's Regency-era set romances featuring the aristocratic Bridgerton family in 1810s London has become the streaming service's most-watched series ever. (At least, according to
The Great British Baking Show
It's high summer in the U.K. The grass is green, the birds and chirping, and "Achy Breaky Heart" is playing. Welcome to The Great British...wait what now? For those of us hoping the boy energy of last season would dissipate between seasons, sorry y&
Flour Power
The Great British Bake Off debuted on BBC 2 in 2010 as a Kids In Need charity show enticing people to start fundraising bake-offs at home. No one realized at the time that the series, which featured BBC 2 regular Mary Berry, The Supersizers hosts Mel and Sue, and
Bridgerton
Bridgerton Season 2 started filming in the spring of 2021. However, with Netflix focusing on The Witcher Season 2 as its big fantasy release this holiday season, it seems the streamer isn't planning on more romantic adventures of the ton's favorite family until 2022. That'
The Great British Baking Show
After much throat-clearing and deliberate delays, The Great British Baking Show (a.k.a The Great British Bake Off) has confirmed it will return right where everyone knew it would, in the third week of September. As it did last year, the series will premiere overseas in the U.