Reason #(I’ve lost count) why Benedict Cumberbatch can do no wrong. Following a drop-dead brilliant performance as Patrick Melrose, the Sherlock and Doctor Strange star will play Dominic Cummings, the leading strategist and Campaign Director of Vote Leave, in Brexit (w.t.), the one-off drama written by award-winning writer James Graham and directed by Toby Haynes (Black Mirror, Doctor Who). Principle […]
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Charged with bearing the heavy burden of being “the real final episode of Father Ted”, co-creator/writer Graham Linehan (Black Books, The IT Crowd) announced earlier this week via Twitter that the brilliant British comedy, which sported an almost exclusively all-Irish cast, will return in musical form with Ted making the move from the fictional Craggy Island to […]
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The first trailer for Channel 4’s incarnation of The Great British Bake Off has finally been released. Honestly, I’m not sure if I’m very scared or if I can’t wait to see this. My first thought was that this looks kind of cute because, well, it features singing dough, cakes, muffins and even croissants! But then you quickly […]
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Fortunately or, unfortunately, we all know the history of The Great British Bake-Off which resulted in the unthinkable parting of the ways between Love Productions, long-time producers of the series and the BBC, the broadcast home for GBBO since the beginning. When talks broke off last year and the dust settled, the series had found a new home on […]
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There is now joy in Mudville today and, yes, Virginia there is a Santa Clause as Channel 4 has finally confirmed that the brilliant 90s classic, The Crystal Maze, will return for a 20-part series beginning in 2017. Originally hosted by the greatness of Richard O’Brien (Rocky Horror Picture Show), the newest incarnation will see former IT Crowd star […]
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The BBC ‘officially’ bid farewell to the Great British Bake-Off with a Boxing Day broadcast filled with their best contestants, heartwarming moments and a video tribute that capsulized the past six series into perfection and worthy of at least a few boxes of tissues. For the one person that may have missed the GBBO melodrama […]
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Following the grand finale Wednesday night, The Great British Bake-Off on the BBC is no more. It has passed on. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has run down the curtain and gone off to meet the choir invisible. Bake off is an ex-series….on the BBC, that is. It will still live on […]
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Buck up little cookery campers, looks like there’s a new baking sheriff in town and it goes by the name of The Big Family Cooking Challenge. The new amateur cookery program will pit family teams of home cooks against each other (with appropriate British civility, I’m sure), with the judges visiting homes to deliver the challenges and […]
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Much like the feeling the swept across the UK on 24 June, 2016 (the Brexit vote), more than 15 million fans of The Great British Bake-Off are wondering just what the heck happened as the most-watched program of 2015 is getting ready to bid farewell to the BBC and head into the unknown waters of Channel 4. […]
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Another day, more drama from the GBBO baking tent. Taking a page out of the Brexit playbook, The Great British Bake Off is bracing for another high-profile exit from the show. First, after seven seasons, the series leaves the BBC for greener pastures to the tune of more ‘dough’ from Channel 4, then series hosts Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc […]
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