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The Crown
It's official: Netflix's The Crown has cast its final queen, but the expensive, critically acclaimed series will wrap up a full season ahead of schedule. When Peter Morgan first signed on to make The Crown, an ambitious period drama that aimed to tell the story of
Dracula
Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's new Netflix series Dracula is not just bad - which it is - it's also deeply disappointing. It's bad because it's a poorly put together string of stories with little vision, no tonal consistency, questionable gender politics, and a
The Crown
Buckingham Palace is back on Netflix, with The Crown Season 3. The royal soap opera spent the first two seasons attempting the draft the first retelling of the history of the second Elizabethan era to great acclaim. It might not be William Shakespeare's Richard III or Henry V,
Culture
When The Great British Baking Show premiered in the summer of 2010 on BBC, it was not the show we know today. The six-episode series was an amalgamation of ideas: History, U.K. geography, fundraising (and getting others involved in starting baking fundraisers of their own), and a reality
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The Great British Baking Show keeps things traditional with a return to Pâtisserie for this season's semi-final. This has been the standard semi-final challenge nearly every year since Series 2 (which has never aired in the US.) Series 4 and 6 (Seasons 2 and 3 for
The Crown
The full trailer for The Crown Season 3 is finally here, and it promises a season that doesn’t just feature a bevy of glittering new actors in the key roles of the royals, but one that appears to subtly reframe the focus of the series. In theory, The Crown
Culture
The Great British Baking Show hits pastries for the Season 10 quarterfinal. Pastry is one of the standards of the series, having been a Weekly Challenge every season save Series 2 (never seen in the U.S.) and 3 (PBS Season 5, aka GBBS: The Beginnings on Netflix). In those
Culture
As if "Dairy Week" wasn't nebulous enough this season as a theme week, The Great British Baking Show goes even more meta with the Top Six and forces them to think "Festivals." I might go so far as to say this sounds like the
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The tent is finally down to a manageable amount of bakers on The Great British Baking Show, as the Top Seven pile in for Dessert Week. This theme week has been a standard since the second series (which Americans haven't seen), only getting dropped once during Series 8
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American viewers may not know this, but The Great British Baking Show started partly as a history program. The initial first season (which never aired here in the U.S.) was one-part baking contest, one-part fundraising initiative, and one-part "history of baking." It wasn'
The Crown
All hail the new Queen. Netflix has dropped a trailer for the third season of its immensely popular period drama The Crown, and it offers our first glimpse at footage of star Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II. The teaser features Colman surveying two images of the queen, one which
Peaky Blinders
With the U.S. release of Peaky Blinders Season 5 just a few weeks away, Netflix has dropped a trailer for the Shelby family’s return, and it’s full of pretty much everything you expect from this show: Violence, big explosions, threats of death and a whole lot of