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American Ninja Warrior: American Ninja Warrior Season 14  Season 14, Ep 0

ANW season 14 wrapped up Monday night. Is anybody else watching? [more inside]
posted by COD on Aug 31, 2022 - 4 comments

Blown Away: Season Three  Season 3, Ep 0

A group of artisans from across North America compete in a glass-blowing competition for a residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. [more inside]
posted by PussKillian on Aug 11, 2022 - 7 comments

Movie: Chicken People

A 2016 documentary about the world of show chickens and the people who love them. Three participants breed, raise, and care for many varieties of chickens as they prepare to compete in a US national poultry show.
posted by brainwane on Jul 5, 2022 - 3 comments

The Great Pottery Throw Down: The Great Pottery Throw Down Season Five  Season 5, Ep 0

An assortment of potters come together at Middleport Pottery to compete in clay. Keith and Rich judge, and Ellie Taylor holds down the host spot until Siobhán McSweeney's broken leg improves enough to let her rejoin the crew. The show is streaming on HBO Max in the US.
posted by PussKillian on May 12, 2022 - 9 comments

Taskmaster: Series 13: The whole thing, beginning with the preview.  Season 13, Ep 0

Taskmaster: Series 13 [TRAILER] premieres Thursday 14 April 2022. A live studio audience will be in attendance for the first time since Series 9—Nov 2019! The lucky panelists whose personal items and egos will be on the line are Ardal O'Hanlon, Bridget Christie, Chris Ramsey, Judi Love and Sophie Duker. Their time ... starts ...
posted by not_on_display on Apr 5, 2022 - 51 comments

Domino Masters: Season One  Season 1, Ep 0

Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family) hosts. Danica McKeller (The Wonder Years, Math Doesn't Suck), Vernon Davis (Super Bowl 50), and Steve Price (Sprice Machines) judge. Dominos fall. It's like Lego Masters, but with stuff that's supposed to break. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Apr 1, 2022 - 1 comment

The Amazing Race: The Amazing Race  Season 33, Ep 0

The first three legs of season 33 of The Amazing Race were filmed in February 2020... and then production was shut down due to COVID. The Race resumed 17 months later. [more inside]
posted by DevilsAdvocate on Jan 7, 2022 - 6 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Semi Final  Season 7, Ep 9

It's the semi-final, and the sewers go back to the 1940s. They create a pair of Oxford bags [trousers], dresses from parachutes and a Dior New Look outfit.
posted by ellieBOA on Jun 10, 2021 - 15 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Music and the Movies Week  Season 7, Ep 8

The sewers create a dress inspired by Dirty Dancing, a Sound of Music transformation and a disco era-inspired outfit from Dreamgirls.
posted by ellieBOA on Jun 10, 2021 - 7 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Children's Week  Season 7, Ep 5

For children's week, the sewers' skills are tested by romper suits, Under the Sea-themed fancy dress and raincoats for mini models.
posted by ellieBOA on May 13, 2021 - 11 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Gent’s Classics Week  Season 7, Ep 3

For gent’s classics week, the sewers make baker boy caps, transform old jackets into outfits for a woman, and create a casual utility jacket.
posted by ellieBOA on Apr 30, 2021 - 3 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Summer Week  Season 7, Ep 2

Summer Week sees Esme and Patrick challenging the sewers to create paperbag shorts, cocktail outfits and button-down sun dresses.
posted by anonymous on Apr 22, 2021 - 8 comments

All That Glitters: Britain's Next Jewellery Star: Episode #1.1  Season 1, Ep 1

The 8 jewellers are set their first challenges by the judges. The Bestseller Challenge asks them to make three silver bangles each. For the Bespoke Challenge client Ben wants a pendant necklace for his mum to wear when meeting the Queen.
posted by ellieBOA on Apr 15, 2021 - 8 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Episode 1  Season 7, Ep 1

The sewing competition returns for a seventh series and in week one the judges settle the contestants in with a trio of challenges based on everyday wardrobe staples - sleeveless blouses, t-shirts and dresses. [more inside]
posted by ellieBOA on Apr 15, 2021 - 10 comments

The Great Pottery Throw Down: The Final: 1920s Art Deco Punch Bowl & Decanters  Season 4, Ep 10

In an art deco-inspired final, the potters make a punch bowl and decanter, before facing the tiniest throwing challenge ever set. Who will be crowned the series winner?
posted by ellieBOA on Mar 15, 2021 - 12 comments

The Great Pottery Throw Down: A Pedestal Sink & a Chamber Pot  Season 4, Ep 9

It's the semi-final and the remaining potters produce an elaborate and fully functional pedestal sink and decorate a chamber pot in Bathroom Week, for a place in the grand final
posted by ellieBOA on Mar 8, 2021 - 4 comments

The Great Pottery Throw Down: Native American Acoma Pottery & an Alabama Ring Bottle  Season 4, Ep 8

It's an all-American-themed quarter-final and the remaining potters make Acoma pottery fired in cow dung and throw an Alabama ring bottle, for a place in the semi-final
posted by ellieBOA on Mar 1, 2021 - 6 comments

The Great Pottery Throw Down: Animal Water Feature & a Strawberry Planter  Season 4, Ep 7

It's Garden Week and the remaining potters face a green-fingered challenge to build an animal water feature and throw a strawberry planter, for a place in the quarter-finals.
posted by ellieBOA on Feb 22, 2021 - 3 comments

The Great Pottery Throw Down: Terracotta Cookware & Engraved Tiles  Season 4, Ep 6

It's Terracotta Week and the remaining potters are tasked with making their own range of cookware, before judge Rich Miller sets a second terracotta challenge to engrave tiles.
posted by ellieBOA on Feb 15, 2021 - 5 comments

The Great Pottery Throw Down: Music Legend Busts & Mini Musical Instruments  Season 4, Ep 5

It's Music Week and the remaining potters sculpt a life-like bust of a music legend, receive a surprise special message from an iconic artist, and make mini musical instruments.
posted by ellieBOA on Feb 8, 2021 - 5 comments

The Great Pottery Throw Down: Naked Raku & a Floral Challenge   Season 4, Ep 4

It's naked raku week and the remaining potters throw, burnish and fire a pair of vases, and are set a floral challenge by guest judge and flower-making expert Rita Floyd.
posted by ellieBOA on Feb 1, 2021 - 6 comments

The Great Pottery Throw Down: Fruit Bowls & a Blindfolded Throw Down  Season 4, Ep 3

The remaining potters get fruity when they're challenged to make a bowl full of realistic ceramic fruits, and face a blindfolded throw down with a twist.
posted by ellieBOA on Jan 25, 2021 - 3 comments

The Great Pottery Throw Down: Slab-Build & Handmade Bricks  Season 4, Ep 2

It's all about bricks and mortar, as the 11 remaining potters slab-build a 3D building and, in a Throw Down first, judge Rich Miller tasks the potters with handmaking bricks.
posted by ellieBOA on Jan 18, 2021 - 3 comments

The Great Pottery Throw Down: Cheese Set & Port Chalices  Season 4, Ep 1

Judges Keith Brymer Jones and Richard Miller set the twelve new potters two challenges against the clock: to throw a cheese set and port chalices, as the battle of clay kicks off at the wheel. Hosted by Siobhan McSweeney.
posted by ellieBOA on Jan 18, 2021 - 11 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Final  Season 6, Ep 10

The competition reaches its dramatic denouement as the final three sewers tackle celebration wear challenges and the series winner is crowned.
posted by ellieBOA on Jun 24, 2020 - 10 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Semi Final  Season 1, Ep 9

The four remaining sewers go to the movies, taking on garments and techniques from the silver screen.
posted by ellieBOA on Jun 18, 2020 - 5 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Quarter Final  Season 1, Ep 8

Five sewers do battle in the quarter-final, where they must master techniques and styles from France, Spain and the Philippines.
posted by ellieBOA on Jun 11, 2020 - 8 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Episode 7  Season 6, Ep 7

The six remaining home sewers head back in time to the 1980s, attempting to revive the glamorous - and sometimes ridiculous - style of that decade.
posted by ellieBOA on Jun 4, 2020 - 6 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Episode 6  Season 1, Ep 6

The fashion industry is the biggest polluter of our planet besides oil, so for reduce, reuse and recycle week, all the fabric in the haberdashery is replaced with charity shop clothes and soft furnishings.
posted by ellieBOA on May 30, 2020 - 3 comments

The Big Flower Fight: Season 1 - all episodes  Season 1, Ep 0

Ten pairs of florists, sculptors and garden designers face off in a friendly floral fight to see who can build the biggest, boldest garden sculptures. (Netflix) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on May 24, 2020 - 6 comments

Ultimate Tag: Tag, You're It  Show Only   Season 1, Ep 0

The NFL's Watt brothers host an American Gladiators-style game show where contestants race around a course pursued by professional "taggers" (heavy on the crossfit and parkour), complete with nicknames and intimidating promos. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on May 22, 2020 - 2 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Episode 5  Season 1, Ep 5

The eight remaining sewers return to the sewing room for lingerie and sleepwear week.
posted by ellieBOA on May 21, 2020 - 7 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Episode 4  Season 1, Ep 4

It's sportswear week, and the sewers must create rugby shirts, waterproof onesies for toddlers and tennis outfits.
posted by ellieBOA on May 15, 2020 - 3 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Episode 3  Season 6, Ep 3

Joe Lycett welcomes the ten remaining home sewers back to the nation’s most famous sewing room for children’s week.
posted by ellieBOA on May 7, 2020 - 3 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Episode 2  Season 6, Ep 2

The 11 remaining sewers return for holiday week and are challenged to create palazzo pants, beach cover-ups and colourful shirts.
posted by ellieBOA on Apr 30, 2020 - 4 comments

The Great British Sewing Bee: Season 6, Episode 1  Season 6, Ep 1

Twelve amateur sewers compete over ten weeks (BBC).
posted by ellieBOA on Apr 25, 2020 - 9 comments

Lego Masters: The First Season  Season 1, Ep 0

Will "Lego Batman" Arnett hosts a competition show where Lego builders compete to build higher, faster, and more intricate creations for $100,000 and recognition as a Lego Master. This is the third iteration of "LEGO (tm) Masters", following British and Australian series. Airing and streaming on Fox. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Feb 11, 2020 - 9 comments

Blown Away: Blown Away (Season 1)  Season 1, Ep 0

Ten master artists turn up the heat in glassblowing sculpture challenges for the chance to win $60,000 in prizes and the title of champion. (Netflix premiere, Canadian TV) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Jul 17, 2019 - 23 comments

Top Chef: Now That's a Lot of Schnitzel  Season 15, Ep 6

For the Quickfire, Padma and Richard Blais inspire the chefs using Tasty online videos and challenge them to transform the most laborious dishes from their own menus into accessible thirty minute dishes for home cooks. Then, celebrated German chef, Keegan Gerhard, exposes the chefs to authentic Germanic food and tasks them with creating a delicious and unique Top Chef Beer Garden by putting their own spin on the cuisine and pairing a German-inspired dish with a radler. Who will be saying auf wiedersehen? (Summary from Bravo)
posted by duffell on Jan 12, 2018 - 16 comments

Top Chef: This Is Not Glamping  Season 15, Ep 5

In a competition first, Tom surprises the chefs with a twist that changes the game. After the shock wears off, the chefs are sent camping to make a 5-star meal outdoors, only to learn an unexpected storm welcomes them with a fresh blanket of snow forcing them to pull out every trick in their playbooks. With only a few heat sources and limited local ingredients, the chefs must get resourceful if they want to remain in the running. Chef Naomi Pomeroy joins the judges in the beautiful but chilly Colorado Mountains. (Summary from Bravo)
posted by duffell on Jan 5, 2018 - 9 comments

Top Chef: Little Tools, Big Challenge  Season 15, Ep 4

The chefs channel their inner child to make upscale versions of kid menu classics for Curtis Stone, Padma, and kids of local culinarians. But there’s a catch, they can only use child-sized cookware, utensils and mixers creating more than pint-sized problems. Then, after a visit to a food incubator assisting immigrant women, the chefs must dig deep into their roots to present dishes based on their own heritage for Immigrant food influencers, including Alon Shaya, Nilou Motamed and Mourad Lahlou. (Summary from Bravo)
posted by duffell on Dec 28, 2017 - 16 comments

Top Chef: Keep on Truckin  Season 15, Ep 3

In a Sudden Death Quickfire based on the iconic Denver omelet, the intensity in the kitchen is egg-ceptional as one chef completely cracks under the pressure in one of the most gut wrenching eliminations in Top Chef history as judged by Padma, Tom and Chef Lachlan Patterson. Then, the cheftestants tap into their college palates as they make dishes in food trucks for students in Boulder. Internet sensation, Logan Paul helps wrangle the diners and Chef Hosea Rosenberg joins the judges for indulgent, hangover inspired food. (Summary from Bravo)
posted by duffell on Dec 21, 2017 - 8 comments

Top Chef: Smile and Say Mise  Season 15, Ep 2

In one of Top Chef's signature Quickfires, the chefs battle against each other in a fierce Mise En Place relay. Then, acclaimed local Chef Alex Seidel invites the group to his farm to learn about his take on farm-to-table cuisine. There, they are tasked with creating a progressive meal incorporating a mystery ingredient from the farm into each dish. In this first team challenge, the sparks fly as the chefs get to know each other. (Summary from Bravo)
posted by duffell on Dec 14, 2017 - 14 comments

Top Chef: It'll Take More than Pot Luck  Season 15, Ep 1

A diverse group of chefs enter the Top Chef kitchen in Denver and are immediately put to work, tasked with making a pot luck dish to introduce themselves to the judges and their fellow competitors. Then the cheftestants prepare their modern take on a meat and potatoes dish for a blow-out block party in Larimer Square with 200 diners and Denver's biggest culinary names, including Hosea Rosenberg, Troy Guard, Frank Bonanno and Gregory Gourdet. The chefs learn the importance of the phrase 'first impressions are everything.' (Summary from Bravo)
posted by duffell on Dec 8, 2017 - 10 comments

Top Chef: Something Old, Something New  Season 14, Ep 1

Eight new chefs and eight returning chefs battle it out in Charleston, SC.
posted by duffell on Dec 2, 2016 - 5 comments

Top Chef: Finale  Season 13, Ep 15

To kick things off in the finale, Tom Colicchio shows off his cooking chops (just because he can). Then, the cheftestants' mentors show up to assist them in the final challenge: a four-course meal with a different key ingredient highlighted in each course. Familiar faces from earlier in the season return to pitch in as well.
posted by duffell on Mar 17, 2016 - 16 comments

Top Chef: Where It All Started  Season 13, Ep 13

Artisanal toast, a quickfire elimination, and a stint in the Fleur De Lys kitchen! Familiar faces from past seasons of Top Chef (and Top Chef Masters) abound.
posted by duffell on Mar 3, 2016 - 5 comments

Top Chef: Wok This Way  Season 13, Ep 12

The cheftestants compete to chop their best suey for the quickfire challenge. Several previously-eliminated chefs return to help with the elimination challenge: developing a fast-casual dining concept!
posted by duffell on Feb 25, 2016 - 11 comments

Top Chef: Hammer Time  Season 13, Ep 11

Oakland & San Francisco! For the quickfire, the remaining 7 chefs create rap personas & matching dishes to serve to culturally relevant rap icon MC Hammer. For the elimination challenge, our chefs traverse time, space, and the San Francisco Public Library!
posted by duffell on Feb 18, 2016 - 7 comments

Top Chef: Restaurant Wars, Part II  Season 13, Ep 10

PART DEUX! It's time for dinner service. Phillip shows off his chest tats to the customers.
posted by duffell on Feb 11, 2016 - 9 comments

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