J-Man

Daniel Laurie (Reggie) is in the Christmas episode of "Sister Boniface Mysteries."

Christmas episode of Sister Boniface Mysteries is available on Britbox.

I recognized him as T. Thomas Fortune, the newspaper publisher on The Gilded Age.

Why is that interesting? It's called Autumn in a lot (most even) of the world so why on earth would a British baking show with people living in GB for people in GB call it fall? It's interesting to me because so many other Americanisms have taken hold in the UK (and other countries as well), but "fall" is a holdout.

It was interesting that not once did anyone use the Americanism "fall" to refer to the season. Although one of the guests on "Extra Slice" did bring up "fall back" with regard to Daylight Saving Time.

I really don't understand the judging this season. Gill flopped on the first two challenges (dead last in the technical for the second week in a row), yet she was still in the top two and a possibility for Star Baker again?

Noel's joke about wearing Paul's pants is a lot funnier if you know that the Brits use "pants" to refer to underwear, not trousers.

Dylan's mother is Indian and his father is Japanese and Belgian.

Yes-- it was Georgie.

I was surprised to find out she was American.

The resolution of the parish consolidation/new vicar story was much too simple and unrealistic.

And in semi-related news, S2 of Emilia Fox's OTHER series, "Signora Volpe" is available on Acorn.

First four episodes (2 two-parters) of S27 are now available on BritBox.

Her name before her marriage to Mr. Chapman was Mrs. McGuire. I also enjoy her character, and am amused by her assumption she could just return to the vicarage. Mrs. McCarthy was the name of a similar character on "Father Brown." I get them confused as well. Although Father Brown now has two new women handling Mrs. McCarthy's duties.

The two public TV stations I'm most familar with (KQED in SF and KVIE in Sacramento) had auctions (for goods and services donated by local businesses) instead of telethons/pledge drives to raise money. At least by the late '60s, which is when I became familiar with them. I wonder why this wasn't tried out in Boston. Or maybe they did so later on.