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The Great British Bake Off
25 days of reality
Dec. 3, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Cracked the Co-Host Code
In her debut season as co-presenter, Alison Hammond proved herself a vital ingredient to the show’s success.
By
Jen Chaney
overnights
Nov. 10, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Technical Difficulties
Dessert week? More like failure week.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Nov. 3, 2023
The
Great British Baking Show
Recap: Buns in the Oven
For a brief,
brief
moment, Cristy looks like she could be the dark horse of the season … until she spectacularly spirals.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 20, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Chocolate Kisses
Despite chocolate work not
really
being baking, it makes for another good challenge in our “back to basics” season.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 13, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Something to Prove
It’s Bread Week, which means we’re forced to watch bakers sit around waiting for their dough to rise.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 6, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: The Cookie Crumbles
It’s always baffling when bakers rely on techniques they can’t conquer.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Sept. 29, 2023
The Great British Baking Show
Season-Premiere Recap: Leave It to Beaver
With a new co-host and a return to basics, our cozy baking show is back and delightful as ever.
By
Brian Moylan
trailer mix
Apr. 5, 2023
Baking Show
Gets a Taste of the Great American ‘Melting Pot’
Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood are on the other side of the pond, and they’re flipping burgers.
By
Jason P. Frank
leaving the tent
Dec. 6, 2022
Matt Lucas Says He’s Too Busy to Keep Co-hosting
The
Great British Bake Off
“I am cheerfully passing the baguette on to someone else,” he wrote.
By
Jennifer Zhan
overnights
Nov. 18, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Season-Finale Recap: Flavor Savior
A lackluster season ends with three excellent bakers taking on final challenges that are undeserving of their talents.
By
Brian Moylan
trailer mix
Nov. 9, 2022
The Great American Baking Show
Is Having a Star-Studded Holiday
Nat Faxon has won an Oscar, but can he make fondant?
By
Bethy Squires
journeys
Nov. 1, 2022
Sue Perkins Got Shot, Got Down, and Got High
The comedian discusses her new travel series, quitting
Bake Off
, and her psychedelic awakening.
By
Nandini Balial
overnights
Oct. 28, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Custard’s Last Stand
What is custard? Well, it’s like English pudding but not nearly as stiff, and they put it in or on just about every dessert you can imagine.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Oct. 21, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: October Surprise
Bless the bakers for going along with these Halloween Week challenges without the tiniest bit of snark.
By
Brian Moylan
vulture food week
Oct. 19, 2022
What Dessert Will Complete the Celebrity Scandal Meal?
A Negroni Sbagliato, Olivia Wilde’s special salad, an egg-yolk omelette, and what?
By
Bethy Squires
overnights
Oct. 14, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Pudding Their Best Foot Forward
After the disaster that was Mexican Week, it’s a relief to get back to the simple drama of wobbly puddings and gelatinous curd.
By
Brian Moylan
holy ‘glockymolo’
Oct. 7, 2022
The Great British Bake Off
’s Mexican Week Felt Like a Half-Baked Idea
And not just because of the many mispronunciations.
By
Jennifer Zhan
overnights
Oct. 7, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Mexican Standoff
This week’s real challenge is trying not to be offensive.
By
Brian Moylan
ummm
Oct. 4, 2022
The Great British Bake Off
’s Prue Leith Once Did What As a Child?
According to her memoir, her mother once made her drown a bag of kittens.
By
Jennifer Zhan
overnights
Sept. 30, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Swede, Swede Victory
This year’s Bread Week features minimal bread baking and an eerily empty tent.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Sept. 23, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Mask for Mask
Finishing your showstopper with a half-hour still left: never a good sign.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Sept. 16, 2022
The Great British Baking Show
Season-Premiere Recap: Holding Out for a Hero
Returning to the
Bake Off
tent is like crawling into a comfy, warm oven, one full of lovely people where nothing too bad ever happens.
By
Brian Moylan
the great vulture predict off
Sept. 7, 2022
Predicting This Season of
The
Great British Bake Off
(Based on a Cast Photo)
We may not have all the information, but we do have one nice picture.
By
Jason P. Frank
sweet!
Aug. 17, 2022
Ellie Kemper and Zach Cherry to Co-host
The Great American Baking Show
The
Bake Off
spinoff premieres in 2023.
By
Zoe Guy
fan theories
Dec. 1, 2021
Was This Season of
Bake Off
an Anti-Brexit Metaphor?
The bakers who succeeded all hailed from a different Britain than the Brexit ideal, a multicultural nation of casual assimilation.
By
Nate Jones
overnights
Nov. 27, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Season Finale Recap: Bubble Over
In the end, the weirdest season in
Great British
history brought me to tears after all.
By
Rachel Sugar
overnights
Nov. 20, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Fallen Star
It’s Pâtisserie Week and it’s all just too much.
By
Rachel Sugar
overnights
Nov. 13, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Just Desserts
This show is at its best when it’s very, very British.
By
Rachel Sugar
overnights
Nov. 6, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Unleash the Quiche
As America grapples with the nature of democracy,
GBBO
grapples with the nature of “a theme.”
By
Rachel Sugar
overnights
Oct. 30, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Just Eat the Pickle, Paul!
There’s nothing inherently wrong with Japanese Week as a concept, but this episode illustrates all the ways it can go bad.
By
Rachel Sugar
recaps
Oct. 23, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Was Never Going to Save Us
Perhaps we’ve been asking too much of Paul Hollywood and the gang.
By
Rachel Sugar
overnights
Sept. 25, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Keep Calm and Bake a Cake
Yes
of course
everything is terrible, but on the other hand, Battenberg cake!
By
Rachel Sugar
😭
Sept. 18, 2020
New Hero Alert: The Crying Judge on
The Great Pottery Throw Down
Move over, Paul Hollywood Handshake. The Keith Brymer Jones Cry is better.
By
Megh Wright
coincidences
May 21, 2020
8 Niche Netflix Reality Competitions, Ranked by Their Similarity to
GBBO
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
By
Zoe Haylock
british tv
Mar. 29, 2020
The Great British Baking Show
Delays New Season Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Ready. Set. Tears.
By
Devon Ivie
interview
Nov. 13, 2019
Steph Blackwell Broke Out of Her ‘Introverted’ Shell for the
British Baking Show
“I’d always think to myself, ‘As long as I turn something in, I’ll be happy
.’”
By
Devon Ivie
overnights
Nov. 1, 2019
The Great British Baking Show
Finale Recap: Out With a Whimper
After this season, we need a new definition for underdog.
By
Nikita Richardson
health and wellness
Oct. 26, 2019
Ready, Set, Remove!
Great British Baking Show
Cuts ‘Thoughtless’ Diabetes Joke
Paul Hollywood said the offending remark.
By
Devon Ivie
overnights
Oct. 18, 2019
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Pie in the Sky
This Pastry Week is refreshingly light on soggy bottoms — but at what cost?
By
Nikita Richardson
overnights
Oct. 11, 2019
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: A Hot Cross to Bear
This week’s episode requires so many disparate skills that it could easily have been a finale.
By
Nikita Richardson
fashion du jour
Oct. 2, 2019
Where Does Noel Fielding Get His Snazzy
Great British Baking Show
Shirts?
An essential investigation.
By
Devon Ivie
overnights
Sept. 27, 2019
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: If You Like Piña Coladas
Still riding the chaotic high of Dairy Week, the showrunners decide it’s time to throw
another
brand new theme into the mix.
By
Nikita Richardson
overnights
Sept. 20, 2019
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Hit or Mishti
Turns out a lot can go wrong with dairy, especially when you ask ten people to make an Indian milk sweet that eight of them are unfamiliar with.
By
Nikita Richardson
close reads
Sept. 19, 2019
The Paul Hollywood Handshake Is the Absolute Worst
Paul’s signature move has gone from a cute gesture to a threat to
The Great British Baking Show
as we know it. It must end.
By
Brian Moylan
overnights
Sept. 13, 2019
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Proving Grounds
The show’s most topsy-turvy week gives us a multitude of savory flavors, a marathon Showstopper challenge, and the season’s first Hollywood Handshake.
By
Nikita Richardson
overnights
Sept. 6, 2019
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Animal Farm
Is Alice an actual Disney princess come to life? Signs point to yes.
By
Nikita Richardson
overnights
Aug. 30, 2019
The Great British Baking Show
Recap: Death by a Thousand Cuts
Season 10 kicks off with a return to Cake Week, featuring rubbery sponges, a “faultless” carrot cake, and an alarming number of injuries.
By
Nikita Richardson
interview
Dec. 11, 2018
The Great British Baking Show
’s Ruby Bhogal on How Brutally Hot That Tent Gets
“My glasses wouldn’t say on, they were slipping down by face every other minute,” says the fan-favorite.
By
Devon Ivie
cooking shows
Dec. 7, 2018
3
Great British Baking Show
Spinoffs to Watch If You’re Craving More
Have a merry Mary Berry holiday.
By
Devon Ivie
after the cookie crumbles
Nov. 29, 2018
What Happens After You Win
The Great British Baking Show
?
Here’s how the show’s winners handle their newfound culinary fame.
By
Devon Ivie
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