The best asset of this violent Irish gangster drama continues to be its sharply drawn female characters, especially empire-building Amanda (Clare Dunne). This eye-popping tour covers the most extravagant, from spectacular hotel complexes in the desert to a mountaintop skyscraper. With limitless oil wealth and a ruler keen to portray his kingdom as a land of technological progress (if not one of civil liberty), Saudi Arabia is currently home to some of the world’s biggest architecture projects.

The Art of Architecture Special: Saudi Arabia Told via diaries, letters and archive footage, this opener recalls how in just six weeks, through a campaign of division, media-manipulation and violence, Hitler seized control. The shocking speed with which the Nazis took over once they got a foothold on power in Germany is the subject of a new three-part documentary. Interviewees rarely reveal themselves so fully and there’s real emotional heft to her experience as a determined woman who’s met more than her share of music-biz monsters and obstacles on her way to the top. GOĪnother action-packed episode of marine life, as Marcus and Emma head for the Maldives to rescue an injured turtle, while, back in Plymouth, Andrew must find fresh seaweed for Larry the Lobster and Ian trains a zebra shark called Zeus.Ī powerful, soul-baring encounter with Rachel Keen – better known as multi-award-winning singer-songwriter, Raye. It’s the Showstopper round that always counts for most, though, and if one contestant might seem to be edging ahead slightly at this stage, don’t go anywhere – there are more than enough surprises left, even then, to take the competition to a nail-biting finish.

A tough set of challenges lies ahead for Dan, Josh and Matty, with a deceptively simple Signature round putting their choux-pastry baking to the ultimate test, while judge Paul Hollywood sets a backward-looking Technical trap that leaves them all floundering equally. Even though this hasn’t been the most spectacular of seasons (new co-presenter Alison Hammond has raised the energy in the tent but the skill level of contestants seems to have been on a downward trajectory in recent years), 10 weeks have still flown by in a haze of flour and icing sugar – and we find ourselves, almost sadly, arriving at the climax of the nation’s favourite baking competition.įollowing the shock departure of Tasha last week, for only the second time in Bake Off’s history (the last was in 2011, when the show was in its third year and still on BBC Two) there is an all-male trio of finalists battling it out for the 2023 crown.

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