The great American baking show?

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Oh wait! That was GBBS!

This is better

What have you been watching lately? 2024 Edition

Season 2 of The Great AMERICAN Baking Show (fuck you, pillsbury, for your gross and greedy trademarking of ‘bake off’) is now available on The Roku Channel, which is free on any web browser or availablemof you have a Roku tv device. Paul and Prue are back, along with actor Zach Cherry as one of the hosts. Ellie Klemperer has been replaced with comedian and actress Casey Wilson. Only on the first episode but it seems to be business as usual, which is to say pleasant and relatively low key. We’l…

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Top Chef Season 21

Always feel like when the editors put in a testimonial from one of the chefs that they miss their “wife, husband, child” they’re going to be eliminated. Oh well my two faves (loved the young Indian chef) are gone now but still like everyone else. Started watching the new season of Great American Baking show on Roku. Prue and Paul are judges and it’s filmed in the tent in England.

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Masterchef USA - as seen in the UK

It is, quite simply, the expected cocky and overbearing American version of almost anything that is done more properly and sedately by the Brits - at least when it comes to current cooking shows IMO. I think the one cooking show that translated pretty well into an American format is/was The Great American Baking Show. The home cooks are all characters to fit into a certain parameter that has been pre-determined by the producers. There’s always the cocksure cook who is certain that s/he is bet…