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Patty1h was kind to point out on the episode 12 thread that there's an alternate channel for live US viewing if NBC preempts Hannibal again tonight for football: In the meantime, Entertainment Weekly has compiled screencaps of Hannibal's different outfits through the series. I laughed out loud at Will wearing a vest over a Henley.

I'm not sure which is the original interview, but Paul's quoted verbatim in a bunch of places, saying: Mary also said something similar. On Extra Slice, Rinaldo, Sandy said that she really doesn't know what happened with the creme brulee, insisting she preheated the oven and used hot water.

They sound yummy! I just don't think of savory cheesecakes as desserts per se, which is why I thought it was odd the show would specifically request sweet ones. I hadn't thought of that. I just figured it was something like an unfamiliar oven model with some fussy settings. Maybe the question will be covered in the post-show tonight.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who found that to be a curious line. I looked up the recipe on the BBC site and interestingly she cites common flavors like vanilla extract and lemon instead of homemade syrups. I really wish it was a more common flavor outside of Europe.The Beebs tweeted a gif of it and she really had to stand on her tiptoes to reach his neck. Alvin has shown an ability to manage some tricky ingredients and I think that if he manages his time, he actually creates some interesting flavor combinations. Mat seems wobblier of the two but you're absolutely right about how next week's theme could throw any of the contestants for a loop. Edited to add links.

Even more amusing than the happy dance was Sandy's playful strangling of Paul after she was eliminated. As for Paul #2, he better watch out next week. Someone on another board pointed out that the contestants so far have been eliminated in reverse age order. I like the thought Nadiya put into her dish. I'd be more curious, though, to try Flora's elderflower cheesecake or Ian's peppercorn one. It's too bad Paul said he was unable to taste that particular spice. Besides Nadiya's very relatable personality, I find myself only warming up to these contestants once they've shown up on Extra Slice. I'm with that comedian who jokingly answered Chetna last week when asked who his favorite baker is this season. I'm feeling meh about them and maybe it's because, as Paul told one reporter, it took awhile for this group to gel. Edited for some grammar issues.

Last season my station ended up running most of the episodes on Sunday afternoons, as part of a lengthy schedule of cooking-related programming. They paired Downtown with old showcases of lovely estates. It made sense thematically to run GBBO in the afternoons, but they would run the episodes a week later than other PBS stations.

Fun, but Moffat better not keep things at that level of cutesyness. The Beebs is renegotiating its charter this year and may start charging licensing fees for iPlayer in order to recoup revenue losses from cord cutting, etc. Given that PBS was timely in releasing the clip and Comic Con greeting, there is some hope that they will continue to narrow the broadcast window like BBC America has done with Doctor Who. If that's the case, they do stream shows online at the Masterpiece website.

With everything that's happened today, I missed this TV headline until now...the final episode with May, Hammond & Clarkson airs in Britain on Sunday. I don't know when BBC America gets it. Their Monday schedule still consists of Season 22, 13 and 19 episodes. Vulture is marking the moment with a fun clickbait quiz of Top Gear trivia, which is actually the first time I heard about the episode finally airing. In the British tabloid rumor mill, Evans allegedly has been scoffing at Clarkson's claims that a BBC executive asked him to return, with media personality Carol Vorderman backing up Jeremy.

Meh. I'm not a fan either but I guess it was a predictable choice. I'm going to have to relisten to his recent radio interview with Jeremy. Can we have the other Chris Evans?

The BBC has confirmed that Jeremy recently recorded voiceovers for the special. They've yet to announce a UK broadcast date but I'd be very surprised if BBC Worldwide didn't let BBC America broadcast it as a 'make good' for the original season rights they had contracted. I can't imagine the DVD special that was substituted in for the last two planned episodes got them comparable ratings. No matter what happens with the BBC iteration of Top Gear, I hope the show uses hosts who can write. Jeremy may be an oaf, but he's also a talented wordsmith who can pull together all sorts of references that shouldn't work but do.

I share some of the concerns about his potential insight ino to the US political system, especially regional issues. John Oliver's lived here for years which give his rants about civil forfeiture, etc. some authority. On the other hand, maybe The Daily Show could use someone with a broad, non-American perspective who also hasn't lived in New York extensively. The first time I saw Trevor was on the British panel show QI and he quickly got the two cerebral comedians to swoon over his click singing. (Hulu has the full episode here.) Edited to add: I think he has tour dates through the fall, which makes it unlikely Trevor would take over sooner than that.

One of the producers tries on the skanklet. Hardie isn't quite tall enough and the dress material looks a little plasticky in that office light but it did make me laugh. A brief recap of the final from The Independent. A profile of Neil, with some interesting backstory, in a regional publication.

I'm sorry that that tittivating Neil lost his mojo towards the end of the season, but his final dress wasn't the disaster it could have been and with his inadvertently Trekkie, 1960s alteration, he did get Patrick to say skanklet. Hee. That was a cute story about waking up in bed with his wife and his first verbalized thought being "I think Fabric Land is open today." I also think it's great that the British Army took the time to photograph a patriotic, sewing portrait of him. I have mixed feelings about everyone's different creations throughout the finale - mainly along the lines of meh it's not as bad as I thought it'd be - but if May and Patrick were sticking to the last three rounds, then I can at least see why they might pick Matt. I need to review the footage, though, because I don't think I appreciate the sew behind the final dress as much as the judges. I thought I saw some puckering in the diamond hip area but full marks to Matt for ambition. He seemed genuinely surprised to win. I thought the show missed an opportunity to show more of the finalists interacting with their family models. I felt like the camera people kept cutting to Neil's wife (and even Lorna's daughter-in-law) only to show her getting bored during the long hours. I was glad when they ultimately filmed her holding her husband's hand during judging; especially since Matt's wife got mostly edited as extrovertedly supportive/adorable throughout the entire process. (Loved what the hair and makeup team did for all three models for the final judging.) In case anyone else is wondering, I think I found the Japanese enka cover of Jimmy Jones' Good Timin' that they played during the pattern challenge.

Weren't the duo from The Infinite Monkey Cage supposed to appear with Eric Idle yesterday?

Jeremy has been suspended for an undisclosed infraction or 'fracas' and they will not be taping an episode this week. I thought there was a lot to enjoy this past episode. There was cinematic footage of some interesting cars and James got to relate to a Top Gear host in his nerdy, technical way. I wonder about the alternating cuts of Tanner looking bug-eyed versus focused while he and James trained around the track. Maybe it was just because they were a bit cartoonish, but they seem like they were creatively stitched into the footage. I also think this would have been a good opportunity to bring in Adam and Rutledge as spotters for James. Either they would have goofed off like Jeremy and Richard, or they could have really rooted against Tanner by being great spotters for James. I didn't love how they filmed James' heats. It didn't really give me a sense of what he's learned over the years and whether he was good, but just not up to the pros. I remember when he learned how to flick from Mika Hakkinen and I bet he was a better racer than how they made him out to be. Edited to add: Fixed some links, plus here's a behind-the-scenes video from Gillian Anderson's SIARPC.

I agree that there needs to be more backstory on the three left but I find them all to be pretty compelling contestants. Again, I find it really impressive that someone who has been sewing seriously for such a short time is doing so well against more seasoned sewers like Lorna and Neil. I did not enjoy seeing an anxious Neil. Since the contestants are asked to wear the same clothes both taping days, though, it's hard to know at what point he was fretting in that interview. He did tweet a pic of himself wearing that meh neoprene creation of his, which fit him well. I have to agree - it was definitely not old or stodgy. Edited: spelled seasoned without the 'ed.'

Craig was on The View and Good Day New York. The tour account also tweeted a link to an interview where he talks about the sitcom pilot and counterintuitively, the creative freedom a scripted show can offer.

Nice biker jacket but I don't know if Hannibal's peeved expression is going to draw in people who aren't already watchers. The poster with Gillian Anderson is visually compelling and has a Hitchcockian vibe.

Mulder and Scully back to back. Hannibal is set for Thursday, June 4th, at 10 pm. It sounds like it will follow David Duchovny's new show, which will be at 9 pm.

I'm happy for Gillian Anderson that she finally got a chance to do SIARPC. I remember her mentioning to Jay Leno years ago that she wanted to do it and it's great that they finally figured out the taping logistics. I think she was invited during the Lacetti days but was pregnant. It's always great when the guest is genuinely a fan of the show and isn't there on a pre-planned promotion tour.

Noted, thanks. I had rushed a reply to another post which had also misnamed him. Funny that I would get his name wrong but never his sister. Maybe it's reflective of my ambivalence to his show. For future reference, text in quoted posts can be edited down to avoid republishing all of my babble. (chuckle) I'm seeing promos for it again on BBCA. I think it's back this weekend.

That brass cover really was terrific. I'd have to rewatch but I thought I also heard a a few bars of Just Can't Get Enough in between the custom interludes. The show editors really do a great job dovetailing the original pieces with commercial selections. Maybe they took it as an purposeful affect or took into account the construction time? I don't have a good sense for how difficult it was for her to reconstruct the jacket shoulders but I agree that the end result was fabulous. I'd wouldn't have given her the win over Neil and Ryan but it is the piece I'd buy. Deborah is just hitting the radar for me and I feel like I finally am getting a sense of her personality. It was nice to see her joking around with the judges and explaining it took her ten minutes to lace the corset. It totally makes sense that someone in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers would geek out over the structural engineering of the kilt but it was fun to see nonetheless. I also continue to like his attitude. He gets a bit embarassed when he wins a challenge and he was paternally quick in making sure Ryan was ok after the corset challenge. And how lovely that he made a corset wedding dress for his colleague. Plus did I see he and others trying to help people finish their corsets? I like the idea of doing something unconventional - it sounded like he was almost going early 80s rock and it's too bad it wasn't as fabulously out there as it could have been. It didn't seem particularly glittery onscreen, for one. I find it fascinating that Paul, for all his loud projects, is relatively quiet and unassuming onscreen. She and Matt continue to break out good pop culture references and drop quotables that keep things moving along. Claudia, on the other hand, finally managed to weird me out with that comment to Ryan about "Some boobs are bumpy. Take it from mum." I'm hoping I missed her saying 'a mum' there. And I don't know about the purring as she petted the pleats. It was nice though, when she tried to comfort Ryan in the middle of his breakdown and then later joked that she was giving him two weeks as the rest got their two minute warning. Even when he has trouble, I think Matt continues to impress. Considering that he's only been sewing seriously for three years, he's acquitted himself well in the challenges and with his easy rapport with Claudia, he's been one of the more telegenic contestants. In between steaming the mannequins, he had that funny little exchange with Claudia over his anxiety in chopping off that button and whether he'd meant to compete on Bake Off. I agree that maybe Ryan could have won the transformative challenge. That dress could have fit right into a Karen Millen collection. I'm guessing it came down to taste, finishing and just how much work it took Neil to make that dress look so seamlessly unlike its origins. Edited to add: Deborah talks about her polka dot dress here.

Wow, the bouffant days. Sessions was on QI more regularly in its first couple of years and was in a memorable episode with Emma Thompson where he did his Alan Rickman impression. They also had him in an early episode, Bats, with Josie Lawrence that I don't really recall.

There's an EW piece where two of the writers discuss the movie tie-ins, potential flashbacks plus acknowledge the contradiction between Peggy's strong sense of independence and how much she pined after Steve this season. There's also an interesting chat with the two showrunners and their take on what happened in the season finale.

Same here. A lot of people don't seem to realize that it's run by a different team. Thanks for the heads up. On Twitter the showrunners and producers have been putting a lot of emphasis on rewatching only through official outlets and it was relatively painless to drop a few words at ABC.com. I also decided to go ahead and buy the season. I figure a purchase is still something a little more concrete for network execs to appreciate than a few tweets.