
Great British Baking Show
the home bakers are set three challenges as they bake their signature biscuits, attempt many a baker's nemesis – scones – and finally a tower of petit fours with meringues, choux pastry and macaroons

the home bakers are set three challenges as they bake their signature biscuits, attempt many a baker's nemesis – scones – and finally a tower of petit fours with meringues, choux pastry and macaroons

The ten bakers tackle three increasingly difficult challenges as their cake-making ability is tested.

A festive welcome awaits four more returning bakers - Chetna, Howard, James M and Janet.

The first episode sees Mary-Anne, Ali, Cathryn and Norman face festive challenges.

Liam jazzes up a Portuguese custard tart as well as bread and butter pudding with a tropical twist.

Liam invites friends over for the ultimate baked breakfast and creates a perfect chip shop sarnie.

Paul Hollywood shows how to cultivate your own sourdough starter.

Paul Hollywood investigates iconic breads from the continent.

Jo Brand hosts and is joined in the studio by Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry to get their take on the nail-biting final bakes and how and why they chose their eventual winner

It is advanced dough week in the tent. Jo is joined by Hairy Biker Dave Myers, author Marian Keyes and comedian Hal Cruttenden celebrating all sorts of dough-based bakes

It is pastries week in the tent, which means Jo Brand and her panel are celebrating anything and everything to do with pastry. Jo is joined by comedian Josh Widdicombe, broadcaster Danny Baker and series 4's victim of custard theft, Howard Middleton.

Sue Perkins presents as celebrities Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders, Lulu, and Dame Edna Everage enter the tent to take on three challenges set by Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

Ed Byrne presents as Alistair McGowan, Rochelle Humes, Doon Mackichan and Helen Skelton face three challenges in the tent set by Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

Omid Djalili hosts as this time those facing Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, are Michael Ball, Emma Freud, Jamelia and Victoria Pendleton.

Jo Brand hosts, as Kirsty Young, Jason Gardiner, Jane Horrocks and Greg Rutherford enter the tent to face three challenges set by Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

Sue Perkins hosts the first episode, in which Michael Vaughan, Samantha Bond, Bonnie Wright and Johnny Vaughan enter the tent to face three challenges set by Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

The three finalists face a showstopper which is the most complex ever and which has the most bakes ever requested in a challenge. Who will be crowned champion?

The semi-final sees the bakers tackling three patisserie-based challenges, including a French pastry, a yeast-based cake and a multiple mini-cake showstopper.

For the first ever Tudor Week, the bakers must tackle pies, biscuits and a marzipan showstopper. Which of them will make it through to the semi-final?

Three sweet challenges will mean a bitter end for one of the bakers as they face a sweetly filled signature, a French technical and a mousse marathon showstopper.