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Posted October 22, 2016 -  No Comment

BBC cooking up ‘The Big Family Cooking Challenge’ as possible ‘GBBO’ replacement

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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Posted November 14, 2015 -  No Comment

Sherlock’s Martin Freeman channels his inner Yoda for ‘Children in Need’

As the world awaits the release of Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens, last night’s Children in Need telethon on BBC1 did its best to give the Star Wars-Nation faithful something to ease the wait until the long-awaited mid-December premiere. Now in its 35th year, the Children in Need is the BBC’s UK charity effort that has raised […]

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