The Great British Bake Off recap: Buns out, puns out

Bread Week is one of the most feared ones on The Great British Bake Off, explains Abbi at the start of this week’s episode. And it absolutely is, if only because we are constantly told that bread is Paul Hollywood’s area of expertise. So the difficulty is ramped up here. There’s a palpable stress in…

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The Haunted Houses of Classic TV

  Before We Begin…   Today’s blog is about Halloween scares from the classic TV era. But after the atrocities committed last weekend in Israel, all of us received a sobering reminder about what genuine fear feels like, and that pure evil does exist in our real world.   There have been other tragic news…

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Friday Flashback: Pictures of You: Cal Wilson

Cal Wilson featured on so many local comedy shows and panels there were many choices I could have used for this week’s flashback: Good News Week, Spicks and Specks, Thank God You’re Here, Kitty is not a Cat and more. In 2012 she featured on Working Dog’s Pictures of You, a conversation show in which…

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