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Biscuit week opens with no skit welcoming us to The Great British Baking Show, just a drone flyover of the small river that runs through Welford Park in Berkshire. I think this is the first time the show has used drones for casual filming shots, and for TV geeks like
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The Great British Baking Show is back for a record 16th season! The series returned to Channel 4 at the top of September, and has rolled right over to Netflix for the weekend, bringing the joys of the tent back to fans a few weeks earlier than usual. Outside the
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After nearly two decades on the air, The Great British Baking Show is something of an institution in British culture. For its first decade, it also debuted like clockwork in the same spot in the calendar, right after the three-day bank holiday at the end of August. Even when
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Regular readers of Telly Visions will have noted the past few weeks have been a bit light in posting; much like 2024, the summer has been filled with family emergencies, and rescission means less help. It's a dark time, not just for public broadcasting, but for the world
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The Great British Baking Show comes but once a year on Netflix, partly due to the streaming service's hesitation to delve into the variations that PBS initially deemed "too British" and the older seasons the BBC didn't think were worth offering. However, for fans
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Dick Turpin will ride once more on Apple TV+, but only once more. According to reports from Broadcast UK (which has been the lead outlet breaking The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin news, including the Season 2 renewal and the show's sudden cancellation), Apple TV+ has
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The 2023 Dual Writers and Actors Guild strikes in Hollywood were ultimately won by the writers and actors, who secured significant protections and pay restructuring to reflect the rise of streaming. The strikes also gave studios cover to (in business terms) "right-size" their current crop of shows
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Over on the regular edition of The Great British Baking Show, a crisis is brewing, as the series has now turned out two extremely mediocre winners in a row, and all because judge Paul Hollywood can't just let the series play out without meddling. (Meanwhile, Prue Leith hints
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The holidays are a time when TV networks know viewers will tune in; it's not like people want to watch a Christmas Tree lighting in mid-January! However, that problem is exactly what Netflix has regarding The Great British Baking Show. The 60-hour wait from Tuesday at
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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&